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Are Homemade CPUs Alibaba’s Bid For Independence?

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The United States, alarmed at China's campaign to bring Taiwan under its control, has also begun an ambitious program to 'reshore' its semiconductor manufacturing after allowing much of it to migrate to Taiwan. RISC-V, which refers to the fifth generation of an open-source reduced instruction set computer architecture created by U.S.-based

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Foxconn sees ‘slightly better’ 2024, warns on AI chip shortage – ET Auto

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Taiwan’s Foxconn , Apple’s biggest iPhone assembler and the world’s largest contract electronics maker, expects its business this year to be “slightly better” than last year but is facing a shortage of chips for AI servers. Liu said production capacity for chips for servers is limited, even with strong demand.

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The Chip Shortage, Giant Chips, and the Future of Moore’s Law

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By the time they got back in line to buy chips, that line was nearly a year long, and it was time to panic again. For reference, the massive—and occasionally foul-mouthed —GPT-3 natural language processor has 175 billion. Of course, Taiwan and South Korea are also making major domestic investments, as are Europe and Japan.

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Lordstown recordsdata for chapter, sues Foxconn

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electrical truck producer did not get to the bottom of a dispute over a promised funding from Taiwan corporate Foxconn. Lordstown contends Foxconn is balking at buying spare stocks of its retain as promised and misled the EV maker about participating on automobile construction plans. Foxconn up to now invested about $52.7

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