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US is urging chipmaking allies like Japan, Netherlands to tighten restrictions on China
Fp Staff • 1 year agoThe Biden administration is urging Japan and the Netherlands to strengthen restrictions on exports of chipmaking equipment to China. This follows revelations that Huawei and SMIC developed their chip using tech from 2 US suppliers
Former Google engineer charged with stealing AI secrets, selling them to Chinese tech companies
Fp Staff • 1 year agoLinwei Ding, a former software engineer at Google, allegedly stole over 500 unique files of confidential information from Google and sold it to a Chinese company. Ding took up a job as a CTO in a China-based tech company, while he was still working for Google, at one of their US campus
Apple’s trouble in China: Tech giants’ sales plummet by 24%, Huawei up by over 64%
Fp Staff • 1 year agoConsumer's in China are abandoning American consumer tech in favour of domestic brand. Apple, for example, saw its sales plummeted by 24% whereas Huawei's sales went up by 64%. Huawei's success can be attributed to the release of its Mate 60 phone series
US lawmakers launch new attack to force ByteDance to sell TikTok to continue operating in the country
Fp Staff • 1 year agoA group of bipartisan lawmakers are launching a new attack on ByteDance in the US to get it to sell TikTok to a non-Chinese entity, if it wants the app to continue its presence in the US. They seek to introduce a new bill that will stop US app stores and web hosting services from distributing TikTok
Huawei under scrutiny for its AI chip's capabilities after NVIDIA declares them 'close rivals'
Fp Staff • 1 year agoNVIDIA now identifies Huawei, the Chinese telecom giant as a potential rival in AI chips for the first time. With export restrictions preventing NVIDIA from shipping its GPUs to mainland China, Huawei's new AI chipset, the Ascend 910B, is gaining attention as a replacement for NVIDIA's products
Not just Chinese, ALL big carmakers record & sell more data than most smartphone brands
Mehul Das • 1 year agoIt's not just Chinese-manufactured vehicles that are under scrutiny for their surveillance capabilities. A few months ago, a Mozilla study titled 'Privacy Not Included,' revealed that almost all major carmakers collect data from their users and sell it to advertisers
Chinese carmakers 'collect large amounts of data on occupants,' to face scrutiny in the US
Fp Staff • 1 year agoModern cars come with a lot of connected technology for features like drivers' assist, GPS, or even security measures. Given China's tendency to harvest data that Chinese companies collect, the US fears that connected technology in cars is a massive security risk
US designates more Chinese tech companies as offshoots of military, may impose more sanctions
Fp Staff • 1 year agoThe US Pentagon has designated a bunch of Chinese tech companies as extensions of the Chinese military, and therefore a security risk to the US. This includes companies like YMTC, China's largest chipmaker, drone manufacturer Chengdu JOUAV and many more
Chinese military, state-owned companies bought tons of high-end NVIDIA AI GPUs despite ban
Fp Staff • 1 year agoDespite several embargoes, trade sanctions and downright banning NVIDIA and other top AI chipmaker to export GPUs or AI chips to China, the Chinese military and state-owned companies have acquired thousands of top level chips
Netherlands blocks ASML from exporting chipmaking machines to China following US export restrictions
Fp Staff • 1 year agoThe US was able to convince the Netherlands to impose trade restrictions on Dutch chipmaking companies from dealing with China for the latest generation of lithography machines. However, now, the US wants to block even older technological equipment