Latest about chip war
Chinese company claims chip breakthrough with 28nm-capable litho tool
Shanghai Micro Electronics Equipment Group claims to have developed a 28nm-capable lithography machine for chip manufacturing, a breakthrough for the Chinese tech industry.
Huawei's sanctions-evading Kirin 9000S processor tested
Huawei's HiSilicon Kirin 9000 remains the company's most powerful, despite the introduction of the new sanctions-evading Kirin 9000S that's fabricated on SMIC's 7nm node.
Dell restricts exports of AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX, RX 7900, and Pro W7900 GPUs to China
Dell asks its sales personnel not to supply AMD's latest graphics cards to China and 22 other locations.
Chinese chipmaker uses IBM's open standard Power ISA instead of x86 — plows forward with second-gen server CPU
Hexin Technology powers on the second-gen HX-C2000 test chip, the TC2, for servers based on the Power ISA RISC architecture instead of x86 or Arm.
The US government banned Nvidia's fastest gaming GPU from China — chipmaker pulls RTX 4090 listings due to AI concerns, but leaves RTX 6000 Ada
Nvidia no longer sells the GeForce RTX 4090 in China, but the data center and workstation-oriented RTX 6000 Ada still seems to be available online.
Russia pivots to Chinese CPUs that aren't subject to US sanctions — Russia's homegrown Linux-based Alt OS now supports Chinese LoongArch chips
Russian Alt Linux ported to Loongson's LoongArch64 architecture to properly support LS5000 and LS6000 processors.
U.S. Opens Criminal Investigation Into Applied Materials Shipments to China Chipmaker
Applied Materials is under U.S. criminal investigation for supplying advanced fab tools to China-based SMIC, according to report.
Nvidia RTX 4090 Subject to China Export Restrictions Starting November 17
The fastest gaming GPU will no longer be sold in China.
