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Autonomous trucking startup TuSimple using NVIDIA DRIVE

Green Car Congress

Autonomous trucking startup TuSimple has been hauling mail more than 1,000 miles between Phoenix and Dallas as part of a two-week pilot with the US Postal Service. In 2017, NVIDIA GPU Ventures joined a group of investors led by Chinese social media company Sina in investing more than $20 million in the Chinese startup.

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CATL reaches deal to supply energy storage systems to US firm HGP

CN EV Post

This helps meet the growing demand for clean energy in Texas and North America and highlights CATL's and HGP's commitment to achieving sustainable development, the Chinese battery giant said. HGP is based in Dallas, Texas, and has decades of market experience deploying grid investment-grade energy storage assets.

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Heart Set On A Chinese Electric Car? Get Ready To Wait Awhile

Green Car Reports

If you're in the habit of reading obscure press releases, you might have seen one recently announcing that Dallas-based Green Automotive Co. had signed an extension to its agreement with China’s Zotye Auto. Green Automotive now has rights for 10 more years to distribute Zotye’s electric sport utility vehicles in the U.S.

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Chinese SUV Tries to Make it in U.S. Despite Taxi Fire

All Cars Electric

Yesterday Dallas-based electric vehicle firm Green Automotive Company announced it was sending two of its all-electric Zotye electric SUVs to be tested for compliance with Federal Motor Safety Standards at independent engineering firm Roush Industries.

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IHS forecasts 11% rise in China automotive semiconductor market in 2014 due to safety and navigation features

Green Car Congress

The fast-growing semiconductor market for China’s automotive industry is set for double-digit expansion in revenue this year, propelled by an increasing desire among Chinese car buyers for added vehicle safety features and helpful infotainment applications such as car navigation, according to a new report from IHS Technology (NYSE: IHS).

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Top500: Frontier Still #1; Where’s China?

Cars That Think

Whitt cited three projects that have used Frontier since its unveiling to earn finalist status for the Gordon Bell prize , to be awarded at the Supercomputing 2022 conference in Dallas this week. Nvidia, for one, has already released a chip for possible use in Chinese supercomputers that meets the U.S.'s million AMD cores.

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How the IBM PC Won, Then Lost, the Personal Computer Market

Cars That Think

And in 2005, the Chinese computer maker Lenovo Group purchased IBM's PC business. On 2 August 1985, Estridge, his wife, Mary Ann, and a handful of IBM salesmen from Los Angeles boarded Delta Flight 191 headed to Dallas. The magic of the PC may have died before the airplane crash, but the tragedy at Dallas confirmed it.

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