Automakers hunt high and low for chips as supply crisis worsens

Automakers hunt high and low for chips as supply crisis worsens

Global automakers are scrambling to find chips and checking with suppliers to see if they have enough stockpiled, as a deepening semiconductor supply crunch related to Dutch firm Nexperia threatens car production across the industry. Beijing banned exports of Nexperia’s products from China after the Dutch government seized control of the chipmaker last month, citing … Read more

How Huawei plans to outperform global tech leaders with less powerful chips

How Huawei plans to outperform global tech leaders with less powerful chips

China’s Huawei Technologies said Thursday that it would roll out the world’s most powerful AI computing clusters over the next two years as it seeks to outperform global leaders despite relying on less powerful domestic semiconductors. China is racing to develop its own technology as America restricts what can be sold to China, including its … Read more

Elon Musk’s Neuralink receives Canadian approval for brain chip trial – ET HealthWorld

Elon Musk’s Neuralink receives Canadian approval for brain chip trial – ET HealthWorld

Bengaluru: Elon Musk‘s Neuralink said on Wednesday it has received approval to launch its first clinical trial in Canada for a device designed to give paralysed individuals the ability to use digital devices simply by thinking. The brain chip startup said the Canadian study aims to assess the safety and initial functionality of its implant … Read more

Neuralink implanted second trial patient with brain chip, Musk says – ET HealthWorld

Neuralink implanted second trial patient with brain chip, Musk says – ET HealthWorld

By Rachael Levy London: Neuralink has successfully implanted in a second patient its device designed to give paralyzed patients the ability to use digital devices by thinking alone, according to the startup’s owner Elon Musk. Neuralink is in the process of testing its device, which is intended to help people with spinal cord injuries. The … Read more

Musk’s Neuralink says tiny wires of brain chip in first patient now stable – ET HealthWorld

Musk’s Neuralink says tiny wires of brain chip in first patient now stable – ET HealthWorld

By Leroy Leo and Sriparna Roy London: The tiny wires of Neuralink’s brain chip implant used in the first participant in a trial run by Elon Musk’s company have become “more or less very stable”, a company executive said on Wednesday. The company had in May said that a number of tiny wires inside the … Read more

US is slowing AI chip exports to Middle East by Nvidia, AMD

US is slowing AI chip exports to Middle East by Nvidia, AMD

US officials have slowed the issuing of licenses to chipmakers such as Nvidia Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. for large-scale AI accelerator shipments to the Middle East, according to people familiar with the matter, while officials conduct a national security review of AI development in the region. It’s unclear how long the review will … Read more

US weighs sanctioning Huawei’s secretive Chinese chip network

US weighs sanctioning Huawei’s secretive Chinese chip network

The Biden administration is considering blacklisting a number of Chinese semiconductor firms linked to Huawei Technologies Co. after the telecom giant notched a significant technological breakthrough last year, people familiar with the matter said. Such a move would mark another escalation in a US campaign to ringfence and curtail Beijing’s AI and semiconductor ambitions. It … Read more

Chip designer Arm targets $52 billion valuation in year’s largest IPO

Chip designer Arm targets  billion valuation in year’s largest IPO

Washington: British chip designer Arm is targeting a valuation of more than $52 billion for its initial public offering (IPO) on the Nasdaq exchange on Thursday, according to a company press release. Arm, whose semiconductor design is integrated into the vast majority of smartphones worldwide, has priced its shares at $51, the firm announced Wednesday, … Read more