NVIDIA AI chips worth $1B smuggled into China
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Nvidia’s (NVDA) rise from a gaming pure-play to an AI kingmaker has been nothing short of amazing. With cloud czars zooming to build the future with Nvidia chips at the heart of it, the company has become the cornerstone of a niche few even saw coming.
Last week, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said it would soon resume selling its H20 chips to China after a breakthrough with the Trump administration on regulations.
In automotive, MediaTek’s Dimensity Auto cockpit platform now integrates Nvidia RTX GPUs for advanced in-vehicle graphics and compute tasks. On the edge AI front, Nvidia’s TAO toolkit works alongside MediaTek’s NeuroPilot SDK, streamlining model training and deployment.
Trump’s new AI plan pushes deregulation, attacks “woke” models, and speeds chip factory development as OpenAI, xAI, and Nvidia drive global infrastructure expansion.
Despite a U.S. export ban, Chinese firms are secretly repairing hundreds of smuggled Nvidia AI chips each month.
Meta Platforms is reshaping the AI landscape by raising the cost for top researchers. Only a few companies will be able to keep up.
Months after Oregon signed an agreement with the computer chip company Nvidia to educate K-12 and college students about artificial intelligence, details about how AI concepts and “AI literacy” will be taught to children as young as 5 remain unclear.
Artificial intelligence company Reka AI raised a $110 million funding round from investors including Nvidia Corp. and Snowflake Inc. — a deal that more than triples the startup’s valuation to over $1 billion.