Key Senate Democrats urged the Trump administration to revisit new artificial intelligence deals with Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, saying that expanded sales of AI chips to the Middle Eastern countries risk exposing advanced technology to China and Russia, while potentially limiting supplies available for American companies. Agreements unveiled by companies including Nvidia…
After Chinese AI company DeepSeekâs surprise success rattled financial markets in late January, tech investors have largely turned their attention to other issues such as tariffs. But Silicon Valley isnât out of the woods just yet. U.S. AI companies are investing more than their Chinese counterparts and are well-positioned to maintain their performance lead. Still, that…
The move triggered conversations about the global semiconductor market, US dominance, the lopsided chip industry, and what would happen if the US imposed even more severe restrictions on Indiaâs access to processors. What would happen if India fails to procure chips? The move would deal a significant blow to Indiaâs large corporations across industriesânot just…
It is welcome that India is gearing up to take on the challenge of artificial intelligence (AI). This technology is vital not just in its generative avatar, which has caught the public imagination ever since ChatGPTâs 2022 debut, but also in multifarious forms that will fundamentally alter our notion of productivity. Economies that deploy AI…
The Joe Biden administration has unveiled sweeping curbs on the sale of advanced AI chips by semiconductor companies including Nvidia Corp. The new rules will limit the number of AI chips that can be exported to most countries. It will allow unlimited access to US AI technology for America’s closest allies, while also maintaining a…
New Delhi: If Bhavish Aggarwal, founder of now-listed Ola Electric, is known to dream big, his newest ambition is audacious by even his standards: to build âIndiaâs first AI (artificial intelligence) chips” in four years. Such a plan would thrust Aggarwal, who is likened to Elon Musk for his public persona, into an industry with…
In 2023 Apple released the iPhone 15 Pro, powered by the a17 bionic chip, with 19bn transistors. The density of transistors has doubled 34 times over 56 years. That exponential progress, loosely referred to as Mooreâs law, has been one of the engines of the computing revolution. As transistors became smaller they got cheaper (more…
Mr Pichai is not alone. New Street Research, a firm of analysts, estimates that Alphabet, Amazon, Meta and Microsoft will together splurge $104bn on building AI data centres this year. Add in spending by smaller tech firms and other industries and the total AI data-centre binge between 2023 and 2027 could reach $1.4trn. The scale…
