Tim Cook flags memory crunch as AI chips starve smartphones

Tim Cook flags memory crunch as AI chips starve smartphones

Apple CEO Tim Cook. Carlos Barria/Reuters Apple has warned that rising memory chip prices have started to pressure profitability in the current quarter, echoing warnings from South Korean chip makers that are diverting production toward higher-margin memory chips that support AI workloads. “We do continue to see market pricing for memory increasing significantly,” Apple CEO…

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Nvidia’s next AI chips are in full production

Nvidia’s next AI chips are in full production

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said on Monday that the company’s next generation of chips is in “full production,” saying they can deliver five times the artificial intelligence computing of the company’s previous chips when serving up chatbots and other AI apps. In a speech at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las…

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U.S. charges two Chinese nationals for illegally shipping Nvidia AI chips to China

U.S. charges two Chinese nationals for illegally shipping Nvidia AI chips to China

China is one of Nvidia’s largest markets, particularly for data centers, gaming and artificial intelligence applications. Avishek Das | Lightrocket | Getty Images Two Chinese nationals in California have been arrested and charged with the illegal shipment of tens of millions of dollars‘ worth of AI chips, including from Nvidia, the Department of Justice said…

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China is behind in AI chips – but for how much longer?

China is behind in AI chips – but for how much longer?

Ali Song/Reuters It may seem like odd messaging from a tech chief. But Huawei Technologies founder Ren Zhengfei said that Americans have “exaggerated” his company’s chip achievements, which “still lag behind the US by a generation”. When it comes to the race for the hardware needed to support artificial intelligence, his company “isn’t that powerful…

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