The US Flip-flop Over H20 Chip Restrictions 

Reporting on April 9 suggested that the Trump administration in the United States had reversed course on restricting the export to China of H20 chips – Nvidia’s most advanced offering to remain outside U.S. export controls. Reportedly, the White House’s change of heart followed President Donald Trump’s dinner with NvidiaContinue Reading

Trump’s Tariffs Are Threatening the US Semiconductor Revival

Silicon Valley let out a sigh of relief on Wednesday when it learned that President Donald Trump’s tariff bonanza included an exemption for semiconductors, which, at least for now, won’t be subject to higher import duties. But just three days later, some US tech companies may be finding that theContinue Reading

Best Graphics Cards (GPUs) for PC: Nvidia, AMD, Intel

Previous-Generation Cards Normally, I’d recommend a previous generation card, but the RTX 40 Series and AMD 7000 cards are almost entirely out of stock or massively marked up at major retailers. There are still a few older-generation cards you can pick up relatively easily, and they’re some of the onlyContinue Reading

How Extropic Plans to Unseat Nvidia

“This signal on the oscilloscope may seem simple at first glance, but it demonstrates a key building block for our platform, representing the birth of the world’s first scalable, mass-manufacturable, and energy-efficient probabilistic computing platform,” says Guillaume Verdon, CEO of Extropic and the man behind the wildly popular, provocative, andContinue Reading

Malaysia to tighten semiconductor regulations under US pressure: Report

Malaysia plans to tighten regulations on semiconductors as it comes under United States pressure to staunch the flow of chips to China crucial to the development of artificial intelligence (AI), the Financial Times reported on Sunday (Mar 23). Trade Minister Zafrul Aziz said that the US government was demanding Malaysia closelyContinue Reading

Synchron’s Brain-Computer Interface Now Has Nvidia’s AI

Cosmos can also generate tokens about each avatar movement that act like time stamps, which will be used to label brain data. Labeling data enables an AI model to accurately interpret and decode brain signals and then translate those signals into the intended action. All of this data will beContinue Reading

Nvidia Bets Big on Synthetic Data

Nvidia has acquired synthetic data firm Gretel for nine figures, according to two people with direct knowledge of the deal. The acquisition price exceeds Gretel’s most recent valuation of $320 million, the sources say, though the exact terms of the purchase remain unknown. Gretel and its team of approximately 80Continue Reading