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TSMC could face US$1 billion fine over chip found in Huawei AI processor, sources say

TSMC is under a US investigation over a Huawei processor containing chips from the Taiwanese company. Photo: Reuters

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) could face a penalty of US$1 billion or more to settle a US export control investigation over a chip it made that ended up inside a Huawei Technologies artificial intelligence (AI) processor, according to two people familiar with the matter.

Huawei – a company at the centre of China’s AI chip ambitions that has been accused of sanctions busting and trade secret theft – is on a US trade list

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TSMC faces $1 billion US fine for making chips for blacklisted Huawei

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TSMC may be hit with a fine exceeding $1 billion by the U.S. Commerce Department for unknowingly supplying Huawei a compute chiplet for the latter's Ascend 910-series AI processor, Reuters reports. Such a high fine would be rare and perhaps a record, though it also appears to reveal the volume of chips that Huawei got from TSMC by deception.

The potential $1+ billion fine is based on export rules that allow for

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Apple Silicon|Intel

(PR) BCM Intros MX-MTLPS Thin Mini-ITX Motherboard Built on the Meteor Lake-PS (MTL-PS) Platform

The BCM MX-MTLPS is a Thin Mini-ITX motherboard designed to take advantage of Intel's latest Core Ultra 3/5/7 processors, built on the Meteor Lake-PS (MTL-PS) platform. As one of the first Mini-ITX form factor boards to support Intel's new socketed SoC design, the MX-MTLPS offers an ideal blend of AI acceleration, integrated graphics, and power-efficient compute—all in a low-profile, fanless-capable footprint.

With a
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Here’s why M4 MacBook Pro is one of the best upgrades you can make right now

Last October, Apple announced the . On the surface, it looks like yet another spec bump. However, there are a number of key features that make it worth upgrading to, even if you already have an older .

There’s recently been a pretty big flip in pricing, which gradually took place over the past year or so:

  • First, Apple introduced a new entry-level MacBook Pro at $1599 in 2023 with baseline M3
  • Then, it upped the base memory to
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(PR) Kiloview Introduces their AMD Ryzen Embedded-powered X86-64 Compute Card

Unlock Infinite Possibilities in AV-over-IP with Kiloview X86-64 Compute Cardpowered by AMD. At Kiloview, we design solutions that empower AV professionals with unmatched flexibility and seamless operation. That's why we created the X86-64 Compute Card for the Cradle Series RF02—bringing the power of a PC into a professional AV server to simplify workflows and maximize expandability. Powered by AMD Ryzen Embedded 8645HSand Radeon 780M GPU, this
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HPE's unnamed 1,152-core system pushes Turbostat to support 8,192 cores in Linux 6.15

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Linux 6.15 will bring support for 8,192 cores in the Turbostat CPU monitoring utility, if you happen to have such a system (via Phoronix ). The change was driven by an HPE (Hewlett-Packard Enterprise) engineer who faced an issue with their unnamed 1,152-core system since Turbostat wasn't designed to handle more than 1,024 cores/threads. We currently aren't aware of any server CPU configurations

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Even Tim Cook doesn't use Apple's Magic Mouse — turns out he's a Logitech fan

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Apple's famously stylish Magic Mouse has long been admired for its clean appearance, but even Tim Cook does not use it daily. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal (via Glass Almanac ), the chief executive of Apple revealed that he prefers a mouse that prioritizes usability over sleek design: the Logitech MX Master 3. This choice naturally brings into question Apple's design choices.

Apple's Magic Mouse was originally unveiled in 2009 and introduced multi-touch

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Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 2 Rumored To Offer LPDDR6 RAM Support, With A Rumor Claiming That Its Cache Size Will Get A 33.3 Percent Increase Compared To The Snapdragon 8 Elite

Qualcomm was previously rumored to maintain the same CPU cluster on the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 2 as the Snapdragon 8 Elite, but we should prepare ourselves to experience a bucket of upgrades because the upcoming SoC is said to be fabricated on TSMC’s third-generation 3nm process, along with other changes. Now, a new rumor claims that those changes include a bigger cache, along with support for the next-generation memory standard, LPDDR6, and more improvements, so let us get into the details. Each

Apple Silicon

Apple M1 / M2 / M3 Core Support Might Soon Be Merged For The GCC Compiler

When it comes to compiler support for Apple Silicon and their hardware at large, Apple has long been focused on the LLVM/Clang toolchain given their long history with it, employing many of the developers, and Xcode being based on LLVM. The GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) though may soon see upstream support for the newer Apple Cores thanks to the work of GCC developer Iain Sandoe along with the input of engineers from Arm and the Apple open-source team.

Recently posted to the GCC patches mailing list was the newest
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小米新款SoC或採用台積電N4P工藝,圖形性能優於第二代驍龍8

去年末有 報道 稱,小米即將迎來了自己的SoC,已完成了其首款3nm自研芯片的流片工作,剩下唯一的步驟就是與代工合作伙伴確定訂單,批量生產自己設計的芯片。小米曾在2017年推出了澎湃S1,搭載於小米5c,對SoC並

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