Ai Chips

Has the US stoked China-Nvidia feud?

US policy shifts and sharp rhetoric have turned Nvidia’s chip sales into a flashpoint, fuelling China’s mistrust and push for tech self-reliance

Chips for concessions? China using tech leverage in US trade negotiations as deal deadline looms

China has pressed US President Donald Trump to relax export controls on AI chips. Even as Trump has adopted a muscular trade policy elsewhere, he appears set to accept China's demand to avoid the embarrassment of not reaching a trade deal and to ensure access to China-controlled rare earths.

Nvidia makes history as first company to hit $4 trillion market value

Top chipmaker Nvidia created history after it became the first company to hit $4 trillion in market valuation as its stock price continues to rise steadily despite Trump tariffs

US-China trade tensions threaten tech partnerships

As both the US and China accuse each other of violating the 90-day trade truce agreed upon in May, tech partnership between the world’s top two economies is falling apart brick by brick

Trump inks AI deal with UAE for 'largest' data centre outside US

While Trump has been pushing AI investments to retain its global dominance over the technology, the UAE has also expressed willingness to establish itself as a world leader in AI by 2031

OpenAI close to finalising its own chip design, send it to TSMC for fabrication by 2025-end

This custom chip is part of OpenAI’s strategy to strengthen its infrastructure and negotiating position with chip suppliers, namely NVIDIA, as rising costs and demand for AI hardware push companies to seek alternatives

Paris AI Action Summit: France, EU to reduce red tape, go easy on tech companies to boost AI development

Europe’s stance on AI regulation has been stricter than the US and China. While the EU passed the world’s first comprehensive AI Act last year, critics say these stringent measures could stifle innovation

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu asked US Secretary of Commerce for waivers on AI chip restrictions

Israel is concerned that being placed under these restrictions may limit its ability to develop AI systems critical to national security and innovation. While the export controls will not take effect for another three months, Israeli officials hope to negotiate a change in status before then

NVIDIA, AMD squabbling over whose GPUs are faster for DeepSeek's AI benchmarks

AMD sparked the rivalry by releasing benchmark results that showed its RX 7900 XTX outpacing NVIDIA’s RTX 4090 and RTX 4080 Super in DeepSeek R1 tests. NVIDIA was quick to counter AMD’s claims showing a106% advantage using Distill Llama 8B

DeepSeek damage: On Jan 27, Nvidia lost combined networth of Starbucks, PepsiCo, McDonald's and Target

The steep drop followed a big development from a Chinese startup, DeepSeek. It announced it had created a large-language model capable of matching ChatGPT and other US rivals while using significantly less computing power