August 29, 2025 Chinese tech giant Alibaba aims to fill Nvidia void with its new AI chip BY Reuters China’s Alibaba has developed a new chip that is more versatile than its older chips and is meant to serve a broader range of AI inference tasks, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing people familiar … Continue reading Chinese tech giant Alibaba aims to fill Nvidia void with its new AI chip
February 28, 2025 Intel’s anticipated $28 billion chip factories in Ohio are delayed until 2030 After its expensive bid to become a contract chip manufacturer for other companies strained its balance sheet, Intel has been cutting capital expenses. BY Reuters Intel‘s promised $28 billion chip fabrication plants in Ohio are facing further delays, with the first … Continue reading Intel’s anticipated $28 billion chip factories in Ohio are delayed until 2030
Google’s Willow quantum chip breakthrough is hidden behind a questionable benchmark Forget about RCS performance, the error rate is the important bit here. igor bonifacic Tue, Dec 10, 2024 Google Google debuted Willow, its latest quantum chip, on Monday, and if you’ve spent any time online since, you’ve undoubtedly run into some breathless … Continue reading Google’s Willow quantum chip breakthrough is hidden behind a questionable benchmark
Google Unveils Custom Chip To Accelerate Search And AI by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, April 10, 2024 Axion is Google’s first custom Arm-based CPU for data centers. The company promises it will provide significant improvements for performance compared with today’s cloud tools. The idea is to offer virtual machines powered by these … Continue reading Google Unveils Custom Chip To Accelerate Search And AI
Huawei is allegedly building a self-sufficient chip network using state investment fund Bloomberg’s report suggests a ‘symbiotic relationship’ between Huawei and these enterprises. Richard Lai Fri, Dec 1, 2023 A man checks Huawei’s Mate 60 series smartphones displayed at a Huawei store in Shanghai, China September 8, 2023. (REUTERS/Aly Song) We’ve seen Huawei’s surprising … Continue reading Huawei is allegedly building a self-sufficient chip network using state investment fund
Cherlynn Low @cherlynnlow For years, Apple has been the lone holdout in a sea of all-screen phones with punch-hole cutouts that house selfie cameras. The black rectangle that sat at the top of its flagships since the iPhone X has drawn some criticism, but mostly ambivalence. Apple has kept it around, in large part because … Continue reading Apple’s ‘unprecedented’ engineering snafu reportedly spoiled plans for more powerful iPhone 14 Pro chip
President Biden signs CHIPS Act to boost semiconductor production The measure sets aside $52 billion for domestic chipmakers. I. Bonifacic @igorbonifacic Elizabeth Frantz / reuters Following successful votes in the Senate and House of Representatives, President Joe Biden has signed the CHIPS and Science Act into law. The $280 billion measure will provide significant … Continue reading Biden administration reveals details of its $50 billion chip investment plan
Neuralink’s brain-computer interface demo shows a monkey playing Pong Without a joystick. R. Lawler @Rjcc Neuralink Elon Musk’s last update on Neuralink — his company that is working on technology that will connect the human brain directly to a computer — featured a pig with one of its chips implanted in its brain. Now … Continue reading Elon Musk is reportedly considering investment in Neuralink’s rival brain chip company
