China’s top chip makers trying to localise supply
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Counting the US export controls

China’s top chipmakers are intensifying efforts to localise the supply of essential semiconductor materials and chemicals to counteract US export controls.

Malaysia wants to raise billions for chip industry
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Neutral ground between China and the US

Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said he wants to attract €500 billion in investment in the semiconductor industry.

Chinese give a robot dog a gun
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Wednesday, 29 May 2024 11:59

Chinese give a robot dog a gun


What could possibly go wrong?

During recent military exercises with Cambodia, China's military showed off a robot dog with an automatic rifle affixed to its back.

TSMC is on track for 2nm in 2025
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Wednesday, 29 May 2024 11:37

TSMC is on track for 2nm in 2025


Tame Apple Press rejoices

TSMC claims it is on track to build its 2nm node, the firm’s VP of Process Development, Zhang Xiaogang, said.

Users shunning Macs
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Wednesday, 29 May 2024 11:13

Users shunning Macs


Apple losing market share to proper laptops from Dell and HP

Fruity cargo cult Apple is losing the PC race with Dell and HP PCs.

Nvidia chips might have ARM doing the processing
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Off-the-shelf ARM Cortex X5 cores

The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell-on-earth yarn that says Nvidia is using off-the-shelf ARM Cortex X5 cores to process its 2025 chip, all packed in along shiny new Blackwell GPU cores.

OpenAI trains a new AI
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Wednesday, 29 May 2024 10:21

OpenAI trains a new AI


Successor to GPT-4

OpenAI has announced that it has started training a new flagship artificial intelligence model that would succeed its GPT-4 technology.

Canonical releases Ubuntu 24.04 image for Milk-V Mars
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RISC-V business

Canonical has officially released the optimised Ubuntu 24.04 image for the Milk-V Mars, a credit-card-sized RISC-V single-board computer (SBC) developed by Shenzhen MilkV Technology.

Nvidia rushes to defend book pirates
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Wednesday, 29 May 2024 10:02

Nvidia rushes to defend book pirates


Realises it might be doing the same thing

Nvidia has become involved in a book pirating case rushing to the aid of shadow libraries, presumably because it is also in the dock alongside them for the same reasons.

Intel calls it a Knight on “HPC chip of the future"
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It’s been a hard days knight

Chipzilla has withdrawn support for its Xeon Phi Knights Mill and Knights Landing accelerators from the LLVM/Clang 19 compiler as a sign that its MIC architecture is toast.