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TSMC Profits Surge 57% on Strong Demand for AI Chips

Jan 16, 2025 | theinformation.com | Qianer Liu

Source: The InformationTaiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, the world’s largest chipmaker, reported on Thursday that net income increased 57% to $11.6 billion in the December quarter from a year ago, thanks to strong demand for artificial intelligence chips. TSMC, which manufactures chips for Nvidia and Apple, projected that revenue from AI chips will double in 2025.
Biden Administration Unveils New AI Chip Export Regulations

Jan 13, 2025 | theinformation.com | Qianer Liu

Source: The InformationThe Biden administration announced a set of controversial restrictions on the export of advanced artificial intelligence chips on Monday, in an attempt to plug loopholes that have led to voluminous amounts of cutting-edge chips smuggled to China and Russia. The new regulation introduces a multi-tier system for controlling AI chip exports.
TikTok’s Fate Rests With ByteDance’s Elusive Founder

Jan 9, 2025 | theinformation.com | Qianer Liu

The business world is watching to see whether the Supreme Court—or possibly Donald Trump—saves TikTok. But another man may be more important to the app’s fate: Zhang Yiming, the elusive founder of TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance. Zhang holds supervoting shares that give him effective control over ByteDance and its businesses, according to investors and former executives, even though he doesn’t sit on the board of the company.
Tech Industry Raises Concerns Over Upcoming Chip Export Rules

Jan 7, 2025 | theinformation.com | Qianer Liu

Source: The InformationThe Semiconductor Industry Association on Monday urged the Biden Administration to withhold releasing a planned export control regulation until after Trump takes office, saying the rule could “significantly undercut U.S. leadership and competitiveness” in semiconductor technology. The association, whose members include Nvidia, Advanced Micro Devices, and Intel, said the rule was developed without industry input.
Nvidia Introduces Personal Supercomputer to Deploy AI Locally

Jan 7, 2025 | theinformation.com | Qianer Liu

Source: The InformationNvidia CEO Jensen Huang unveiled a personal artificial intelligence supercomputer, Project Digits, during his keynote speech at CES in Las Vegas on Monday. The $3,000 device can run sophisticated AI models in a compact, desktop-friendly size. In contrast to traditional supercomputers that require extensive space and energy, Project Digits operates from a standard power outlet, enabling users to develop and test their AI models locally as opposed to in the cloud.
China Poised to Investigate More U.S. Tech Deals After Nvidia Probe

Dec 17, 2024 | theinformation.com | Qianer Liu

As the U.S. restricts China’s access to American technology, Beijing is striking back—with antitrust reviews of both ongoing and long-completed acquisitions. The Chinese antitrust regulator’s decision a week ago to investigate Nvidia for alleged violations of antitrust rules in relation to its 2020 purchase of Mellanox Technologies is likely to be the first of a series of such reviews by the Chinese government, according to three people familiar with Chinese regulators’ thinking.
Apple Is Working on AI Chip With Broadcom

Dec 11, 2024 | theinformation.com | Qianer Liu

Apple is developing its first server chip specially designed for artificial intelligence, according to three people with direct knowledge of the project, as the iPhone maker prepares to deal with the intense computing demands of its new AI features. Apple is working with Broadcom on the chip’s networking technology, which is crucial for AI processing, according to one of the people.
U.S. Imposes Export Restrictions on Advanced Memory Chips to China

Dec 2, 2024 | theinformation.com | Qianer Liu

Source: The InformationThe U.S. is restricting the sale to China of advanced memory chips that are crucial for artificial intelligence development, as part of its annual updates to export controls designed to prevent China from accessing cutting-edge semiconductor technology for military use. This year’s updates cover the sale of high bandwidth memory chips, which are key to training generative AI and which enable faster data processing than traditional memory.
ByteDance’s Global AI Ambition Runs Into Obstacles

Nov 29, 2024 | theinformation.com | Qianer Liu

TikTok owner ByteDance, whose artificial intelligence chatbot is a major hit in China, wants to compete worldwide in generative AI. But those plans could be complicated by the geopolitical and regulatory storms surrounding TikTok, as well as the technical challenges it has encountered.
TSMC’s Push to Be Tech’s Switzerland in Doubt as U.S.-China Tensions Grow

Nov 26, 2024 | theinformation.com | Qianer Liu

If Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. had its way, the chip manufacturing powerhouse would be a neutral party in the battle between the U.S. and China for technological supremacy—a semiconductor version of Switzerland, one TSMC executive told The Information. Unfortunately, the company may find it increasingly tough to avoid picking a side.