TikTok owner ByteDance is reportedly developing its own custom AI CPUs — company looks to ease China's dependence on US chipmakers
… The Chinese startup got investments from ByteDance and Alibaba, China's cloud and e-commerce giant. …
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News-analysis Archive | November 2025 | Tom's Hardware
Skip to main content Filter Year Month Go 16 articles November 28 China claims domestically-designed 14nm logic chips can rival 4nm Nvidia silicon — architecture leverages 3D hybrid bonding techniques for claimed 120 TFLOPS of power November 26 Google TPUs garner attention as AI chip alternative, b…
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How optical interconnects and silicon photonics emerged as AI's next hot commodity
… China has been building its own stack. …
Apple made marketing gold from the export ban on Power Mac G4 'supercomputer' in 1999, 'for the first time in history a personal computer has been classified as a weapon' — Pentagon banned sales of the 400 MHz G4 in 50 countries when it launched
… However, western governments have also sought to restrict exports of semiconductor tools and software to places like Russia, China, Iran, North Korea etc. …
The supercomputer race no longer means what it used to, as rankings lose relevance in the AI era — as privately held compute clusters are built, running HPL becomes a distraction
… China rising The TOP500 has used the High Performance Linpack benchmark, or HPL, since the ranking began in 1993. …
SiPearl's long-awaited Rhea CPU finally gets in the lab, opening the door for Europe's first sovereign HPC CPU — 'availability of Rhea1 is scheduled for end of 2026' SiPearl VP says, following long development process
… The company cannot ship its CPUs to China due to export restrictions, but it can sell them to clients in Europe and the Middle East without restraint, which is its indisputable trump card. …
Inside optical and the battle for scale – how the AI industry is racing to integrate photonic interconnects
… Those materials sit in a much tighter, more geopolitically exposed supply chain, with China controlling around 80 percent of supply. …
News Archive | November 2022 | Tom's Hardware
… Raspberry Pi Drives Holographic Anime Virtual Assistant November 8 Intel Raptor Canyon NUC Flaunts Core i9-13900K, Triple-Slot Graphics RTX 4080 GPUs Are Just as Large as RTX 4090s AMD Preps New Game Bundle To Bolster RX 6000 GPU Sales Apple Reportedly Helped China Chipmaker YMTC Hire US Engineers … …
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