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TikTok owner ByteDance is reportedly developing its own custom AI CPUs — company looks to ease China's dependence on US chipmakers

… Nvidia's recently unveiled Vera chips show great promise, but once again, we're talking about a U.S. firm. Although Bytedance is best known for TikTok, the world's leading short-form video app, the company runs China's AI chatbot app Doubao and has a handful of AI models under its belt. …

May 29, 2026 · Bruno Ferreira
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AI is starting to out-design chip engineers in narrow areas as LLMs accelerate software chip design tool development — "There is still a lot of human guidance" says Berkley researcher

… As AI makes certain parts of the process dramatically cheaper and faster, Nikolić expects engineers to use that freed-up capacity to explore territory they wouldn't otherwise have dared tackle, including the design of the AI chips driving the whole cycle in the first place. …

May 22, 2026 · Chris Stokel-Walker
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New Silicon Motion SM2524XT chip brings 14 GB/s to mainstream SSDs — 6nm DRAMless controller boasts heavy AI PC optimization and slashes KV cache latency

… In fact, KV cache and enhanced AI inference performance are among the key advantages of the new SSD controller platform. “KV Cache has become a critical factor in AI inference performance, driving the need for sustained high random read/write throughput and low-latency data access,” said Nelson Dua… …

May 29, 2026 · Anton Shilov

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