Opinion | Why export controls are the weapon of choice in US-China tech war

Opinion | Why export controls are the weapon of choice in US-China tech war

On December 3, 2024, China imposed its most stringent set of critical mineral restrictions after the United States not only slapped export controls on 24 types of chipmaking equipment and three categories of software essential for semiconductor development, but also added 140 Chinese companies to the export control list. While these measures and countermeasures have … Read more

My Take | With Nvidia antitrust probe, China hardens its stance towards US ‘AI partners’

My Take | With Nvidia antitrust probe, China hardens its stance towards US ‘AI partners’

China’s decision to launch an antitrust probe into US semiconductor giant Nvidia over a US$6.9 billion acquisition of Israeli networking products and solutions provider Mellanox Technologies, which it approved five years ago, is raising questions about the message Beijing wants to send and what results it is trying to achieve. The high-profile probe could be … Read more

Why Nvidia is about to get a huge edge over AMD

Why Nvidia is about to get a huge edge over AMD

Micron Micron has shared some performance figures for its next-gen graphics memory, and if these numbers turn out to be true, it could mean great things for upcoming graphics cards. The company claims that its GDDR7 VRAM will offer up to 30% performance improvement in gaming scenarios, and this reportedly applies both to games that … Read more

Micron stock declines after forecast fails to meet lofty AI spending expectations

Micron stock declines after forecast fails to meet lofty AI spending expectations

Micron’s fiscal fourth-quarter sales will be US$7.4 billion to US$7.8 billion, the company said in a statement on Wednesday. While the average analyst estimate was US$7.58 billion, some projections were above US$8 billion. Profit will be about US$1.08 a share, minus certain items, versus a projection of US$1.02. Though Micron is getting a boost from … Read more

IIT Roorkee and Micron sign MoU to foster innovation | Education

IIT Roorkee and Micron sign MoU to foster innovation | Education

A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between IIT Roorkee and Micron to support the country’s journey towards self-reliance and innovation. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between IIT Roorkee and Micron to support the country’s journey towards self-reliance and innovation.(Handout) According to a press release by IIT Roorkee, the MoU was signed by … Read more

Chinese chip maker cleared of spying charges in US criminal trade secrets case

Chinese chip maker cleared of spying charges in US criminal trade secrets case

Chesney concluded that US prosecutors failed to prove that the Chinese state-sponsored company misappropriated proprietary data from Micron Technology Inc., American’s largest memory-chip maker, that allegedly passed through Taiwan’s United Microelectronics Corp. in a manufacturing deal with Fujian Jinhua. 02:05 China imposes restrictions on US chip maker Micron, escalating tech war China imposes restrictions on … Read more

OnePlus just made an awkward mistake with the OnePlus 12R

OnePlus just made an awkward mistake with the OnePlus 12R

Joe Maring / Digital Trends OnePlus has made a pretty major flub regarding the storage hardware of the OnePlus 12R. The 12R is already one of 2024’s best smartphones, but it is now receiving quite some heated flak for something OnePlus got wrong. The company advertised that the OnePlus 12R came equipped with a UFS … Read more