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Alibaba unveils homegrown AI chip to supercharge e-commerce
Alibaba Group has unveiled its first AI inference chip, which it says will boost search, recommendation and customer service for e-commerce. Read more…
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Huawei revs up for MWC with 5G chips, promises foldable phone
Huawei revved up its PR machine Thursday for MWC with two new 5G chipsets, a 5G CPE device, AI solutions and a teaser for a foldable smartphone. Read more…
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Amazon builds its own machine-learning chip
(Reuters) – Amazon.com on Wednesday launched a microchip aimed at so-called machine learning, entering a market that both Intel and Nvidia are counting on to boost their earnings in the coming years. Amazon is one Read more…
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DOJ indicts UMC and Fujian Jinhua for stealing Micron secrets
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The US Justice Department on Thursday unveiled an indictment against Taiwan-based United Microelectronics, China state-owned Fujian Jinhua and three individuals, saying they conspired to steal trade secrets from US semiconductor company Micron Read more…
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Fujian Jinhua cut off from US suppliers in protectionist move
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US President Donald Trump’s administration took action on Monday to cut off Chinese state-backed chipmaker Fujian Jinhua from US suppliers amid allegations the firm stole intellectual property from US semiconductor company Micron Read more…
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Super Micro will check its motherboards for alleged spy chips
(Reuters) – Computer hardware maker Super Micro Computer said on Monday it would review its motherboards for any proof of malicious chips as alleged in a recent media report. “Despite the lack of any proof Read more…
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Apple’s Tim Cook wants Bloomberg to retract spy chip story
(Reuters) – Apple chief executive Tim Cook on Friday told an online news website that Bloomberg should retract a story that claimed Apple’s internal computer systems had been infiltrated by malicious computer chips inserted by Read more…
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Huawei builds home-grown AI chip for its data center servers
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China’s Huawei Technologies, the world’s largest telecom equipment maker, unveiled an AI chip on Wednesday that will power its servers, in a push to boost its nascent cloud-computing business. The move, which Read more…
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US and UK agencies back Apple/Amazon denials of spy chip report
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The US Department of Homeland Security said on Saturday it currently had no reason to doubt statements from Apple and Amazon that have denied a Bloomberg report that their supply chains were Read more…
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Apple, Amazon deny report of Chinese spy chips in supply chain
(Reuters) – Apple and Amazon denied a Bloomberg Businessweek report on Thursday that said their systems had been infiltrated by malicious computer chips inserted by Chinese intelligence agents. Bloomberg cited 17 unidentified sources from intelligence Read more…