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China’s AI Chip Deficit: Why Huawei Can’t Catch Nvidia and U.S. Export Controls Should Remain

Executive SummaryOn December 8, the Trump administration announced plans to loosen U.S. export controls on artificial intelligence (AI) chips to China by approving the sale of Nvidia H200 chips—the ...
Renewable Energy World

How are semiconductor chips powering the energy evolution?

Big-picture changes in the energy sector are only possible thanks to the literally small but figuratively huge power of ...

MIT electronics researchers develop a new way to fabricate transistors on the backend of finished dies, to keep pushing the limit of chip densities ever higher

Traditional CMOS chips are fabricated by applying and then etching repeated layers of different materials, applied to a wafer ...

Single Stick vs. Dual Channel RAM: How Much Performance Do You Actually Lose?

DRAM prices just doubled, pushing many builders to consider running a single 16 GB stick. We test how much performance you give up when running a ...