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    News Chinese may be evading Nvidia GPU sanctions with Dell, Gigabyte, and Supermicro servers: Report

    The only thing sanctions work on is that it hurts consumers.
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    News US sanctions transform China into legacy chip production juggernaut — production jumped 40% in Q1 2024

    Overproduction is a lie by bigger chip producers to gauge and inflate prices. There's always a demand
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    News Chinese gov't pushes Huawei's HarmonyOS hard, sets adoption targets to beat Windows, Android, and iOS

    Maybe if American manufacturers make cheap products while not eating up most of their profits on paying the management this wouldn't be a problem.
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    News Chinese gov't pushes Huawei's HarmonyOS hard, sets adoption targets to beat Windows, Android, and iOS

    You also forget the all the embedded smart devices it's going to be in that are rarely sanctioned.
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    News Loongson ships 10,000 CPUs in pilot test with 50 schools in China

    A Loongsoon is enough, It's not like they are running those PCs on Windows 11 working with AI or Video Games.
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    News Seven-year-old AMD gaming GPU continues to stick around — low-profile RX 550 arrives for SFF PCs

    You know the funny part is there are factories out there that are still making RX 580 8GB
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    News Make AI servers in Mexico, US tech firms tell Taiwanese manufacturers

    How do they know the Mexican firms aren't actually Chinese?
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    News US govt wants to talk to tech companies about AI electricity demands — eyes nuclear fusion and fission

    No, Korea is having the worse of it and both Chinas are looking at inland/foreign fish to source. The heavy water needs more further decontamination before dumping it which they are doing right now. I do agree that they should be fine with newer reactors though. But I think it's cheaper and...
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    News HP ends ties with Russia, shutting down its Russian website — website redirects to Kazakhstan with no support

    Looks like it's a new era of ingenious russian hardware hacking time. How is this remotely related to the topic? <Mod Edit - Off topic removed>
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    News Huawei gains 11% in a down year for Chinese PC sales — Dell loses 44% market share

    Android is based on Linux what are you talking about?
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    News China bans Intel and AMD CPUs for government offices and servers, plans to switch to domestic-made alternatives

    Seems like the only way to get away from the Intel IME backdoor
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    News FCC quadruples requirements for basic broadband service — 100Mbps download and 20Mbps upload are now the base standard

    I've been on bilateral unlimited fibre for years already. Honestly shocking a country like the US struggles to provide faster internet for the masses when there's clearly the resources to do it. ISPs don't do it because all they care are profit margins and then they get lobbyists to politically...
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    News China wants to rid itself of Western tech by 2027 -- outlines domestic alternatives in 'Document 79

    They win by doing nothing because everyone else is exploiting it to the fullest.
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    News Chinese foundry SMIC is bruised but not broken by U.S. sanctions — revenue still much higher than in 2021 and 5nm node on track

    Barely because this is new expenditure that's already paying off by remaining cheaper than buying offshore. The rest of the world will learn to live with ever increasing chip prices
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    News Researchers reveal chips that commit 'circuit suicide' — self-destruction and counterfeit protection in one

    I can assume this will appear in a lot of phones and gaming consoles when someone tries to jailbreak it.
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    News HDMI Forum rejects AMD's HDMI 2.1 open-source driver

    But more and more TVs are supporting USB-C Alt DP
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    News Chinese foundry SMIC is bruised but not broken by U.S. sanctions — revenue still much higher than in 2021 and 5nm node on track

    Looking forward because I'm more than certain American and Japanese made 5nm chips are going to be just as expensive as Samsung and TSMC wheres SMIC chips are going to popup up in random cheap Walmart intelligent appliances and computers. Remember the "good old days" when Texas instruments made...
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    News Intel CEO Gelsinger says China is ten years behind in chipmaking capabilities, and it will stay that way

    See, this would make sense if Intel's IPCs aren't so trash that competing brands on larger nodes have better performance.
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    News Nvidia Tegra Xavier rides into the sunset as support for ARM- and Volta-based chip is pulled

    If Nvidia stops selling SBC ARM chips then what is the new switch going to run on?
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    News Nvidia CEO Jensen is worth $42 billion but still eats street food at street markets and visits LAN parties during overseas trips

    For whatever goodwill the US was extending to Vietnam kind of evaporated when they included them with China in the recent export bans.
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    News Orange Pi teams up with Huawei to create a SBC for AI development — Huawei Ascend chip delivers 8/20 TOPS of AI performance

    Doesn't seem to be using new Huawei Hardware though, I'll have to wait for the benchmarks to see if it is comparable to the Pi 5
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    News China could have access to the largest AI chips ever made, supercomputer with 54 million cores — US government investigates Cerebras' UAE-based par...

    These days, nothing good comes out whenever the CIA does anything. The US most certainly shouldn't be further breaking middle eastern relations right now. That said, has Cerebras computers made any significant achievement in terms of scientific studies lately?
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    News TSMC chairman says 'Not being criticized is the biggest enemy of engineers' as company works through union problems at Arizona fab

    Ironic that the US somehow has a stronger union prescence than the taiwanese.
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    News Ayaneo Slide RGB keyboard handheld PC launches on IndieGogo from $699

    Seems like a clone of a PSP and a GPD Win
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    News SK Hynix Plans to Stack HBM4 Directly on Logic Processors

    They are taking the apple approach where if your memory dies you have to replace the entire processor.
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    News No, Nvidia Isn't Breaking GPU Sanctions, Says Analyst

    And how is the lack of competition good for the consumer?
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    News Potential NAND Shortage Could Mean End of Dirt Cheap SSDs

    Blame Samsung for reducing stock