China boots out Euro telecom kit
Nokia and Ericsson shoved aside
China is cutting back on the use of European telecom gear as President Xi Jinping pushes to remove western technology from the country’s critical infrastructure.
TSMC hikes wafer prices and kills cheap transistors
Age of bargain silicon ends
The days of cheap transistors are over as TSMC jacks up prices on its most advanced wafers and signals the end of Moore’s Law’s cosy promise of faster and cheaper chips.
Cerebras scoops $1bn to take on Nvidia
Silicon Valley start-up wants to crash the AI chip party
Chipmaker Cerebras Systems has bagged more than $1 billion from backers including Fidelity and Donald Trump Jr’s 1789 Capital as it tries to peel customers away from Nvidia.
Taiwan trade boss denies US chip grab demands
We are not surrendering more than half of output
Taiwan’s top trade negotiator says Washington is not about to walk away with 55 per cent of the island’s chip production.
Musk wants to replace Wikipedia with Grokipedia
Hard to see who we want to win here
Elon Musk is taking a swing at Wackypedia, claiming he can do it better with his own AI effort called Grokipedia.