An official statement published by the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) says that operators of critical information infrastructure “should stop purchasing Micron products.” The decree, spotted by Wen-Yee Lee, comes after a network security review of Micron’s products sold in China. Apparently, the Chinese government security review found that “Micron’s products have relatively serious potential…
On Monday, Taiwan’s Minister for National Defense, Chiu Kuo-cheng (邱國æ£), made a statement about the nation’s territorial integrity. According to the Taiwan News, the Taiwanese minister said that the island’s armed forces would not tolerate any U.S. attempts to destroy TSMC in the event of a war with China. Normally the war of words is…
Gunnir, a Chinese graphics card manufacturer, has announced new graphics cards based on the Arc A770 and Arc A750, two of the best graphics cards. As per a report from ITHome (opens in new tab), Gunnir has also issued temporary price cuts on the entire Arc Alchemist lineup to help move some inventory. The Arc…
The Japanese government on Friday officially announced a list of 23 wafer fab tools that would be subject to export controls. This decision is expected to make it more challenging for Japanese high-tech companies to export these items to China, reports Nikkei. Specifically, Chinese foundry champion SMIC and NAND memory leader YMTC will not be able to…
Chinese customs have seized a man trying to smuggle 239 processors valued at roughly $50,000 USD into mainland China, reports MyDrivers So far, this is the largest number of CPUs that one person has been caught trying to smuggle into the People’s Republic. A mainland passenger wearing loose black clothes entered mainland China through a ‘nothing to…
AMD’s Zen 4 processors have established their place on the list of best CPUs. However, the non-X models are seemingly losing their appeal in China. The Ryzen 9 7900, Ryzen 7 7700, and Ryzen 5 7600 are selling below their respective MSRPs. AMD launched the Ryzen 7000 lineup in September 2022 and subsequently released the…
As China is accelerating its semiconductor self-sufficiency efforts, the newly formed China Chiplet League this week introduced its homegrown Chiplet Interconnect Interface Standard, according to a DigiTimes report citing the Chinese website Cailianshe. The new interface is meant to enable custom multi-chiplet designs developed by China-based companies and made in the People’s Republic. China’s original Chiplet Interconnect…
You won’t find Nvidia’s H100 (Hopper) GPU on the list of the best graphics cards. However, the H100’s forte lies in artificial intelligence (AI), making it a coveted GPU in the AI industry. And now that everyone is jumping on the AI bandwagon, Nvidia’s H100 has become even more popular. Nvidia claims that the H100…
Nvidia still believes that it will be able to find the right partners for its compute GPUs in the Asia Pacific regions if the U.S. government adds further curbs to sell its A100 and H100 datacenter grade products to Huawei and Inspur. But this likely won’t be particularly easy, as those companies are large, and…
China is neither the world’s largest developer of chips nor the world’s largest maker of semiconductors. However, its swiftly-developing microelectronics industry seems to be generating patent applications at a rapid pace. Last year, Chinese companies filed over half of all semiconductor-related patents globally, according to a report from Mathys & Squire, an intellectual property law firm. “Global powers…
