SAN FRANCISCO — Nvidia on Tuesday announced a multiyear agreement to supply Meta Platforms with millions of its artificial intelligence (AI) chips, including both current and future models, as well as standalone central processing units (CPUs) that compete with products from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices. Read More: NVIDIA tops 2025 tech giants by market value […]
AI Chips
Trump slaps 25% tariff on AI chips
US President Donald Trump has imposed a 25% tariff on certain AI chips, including Nvidia’s H200 and AMD’s MI325X. The move follows a nine-month national security investigation under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act. White House officials said the tariffs aim to boost domestic semiconductor production and reduce reliance on foreign suppliers. The tariffs […]
Samsung gains momentum as HBM4 chips win customer approval
Samsung Electronics has signalled a renewed push in the global semiconductor race after its next-generation high-bandwidth memory chips, known as HBM4, received strong positive feedback from customers. The development was highlighted by Samsung’s co-CEO and head of its chip business, Jun Young-hyun, in his New Year address. Read More: Samsung Launches Galaxy Z TriFold Phone Jun […]
Nvidia H200 chip sales to China draw U.S. security concerns
Nvidia proposed sales of its advanced H200 artificial intelligence chips to China have come under renewed scrutiny in the United States. The review follows a recent decision by President Donald Trump to allow the sales, triggering debate over national security and technological dominance. Read More: Trump reverses Nvidia chip ban for China under revenue-sharing deal Trump approved […]
Trump reverses Nvidia chip ban for China under revenue-sharing deal
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump has reversed the ban on the sale of advanced Nvidia AI chips to China, allowing the tech giant to export its high-end H200 chips under a condition that 15% of its Chinese revenues be paid to the U.S. government. Read More: Pelosi’s husband scraps Nvidia stock as house eyes chip bill The move comes […]
Meta in talks to buy Google AI chips, challenging Nvidia dominance
SAN FRANCISCO: Meta Platforms is reportedly in discussions with Google to purchase billions of dollars’ worth of the Alphabet-owned company’s AI chips for use in its data centers starting in 2027, according to The Information. The deal could also include renting Google’s chips as early as next year. Read More: Meta hid evidence linking social media […]
AMD shares jump 7% on ambitious $100bn AI data-center goal
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) shares surged 7% on Wednesday after the chipmaker unveiled an ambitious plan to achieve $100 billion in annual data-center revenue. CEO Lisa Su outlined the company’s strategy to expand its presence in the rapidly growing artificial intelligence (AI) market, currently dominated by Nvidia. During AMD’s first analyst day in three years, […]
Anthropic expands partnership with Google for $10B AI chip deal
Anthropic has deepened its collaboration with Google in a massive new deal that will give the AI startup access to up to one million of Google’s advanced tensor processing units (TPUs) — artificial intelligence chips valued at tens of billions of dollars. The agreement, announced Thursday, provides Anthropic with over one gigawatt of computing capacity, […]
Nvidia Unveils First U.S.-Made Blackwell Wafer as AI Chip Demand Surges
PHOENIX – Nvidia (NVDA.O) has unveiled the first U.S.-made Blackwell wafer, produced at TSMC’s semiconductor plant in Arizona, marking a major milestone in America’s AI and chip manufacturing capabilities. As the global race for AI computing power intensifies, companies like Nvidia, AMD, and Broadcom are investing heavily to meet the growing demand for chips that […]