Qianer Liu

Nvidia has a new workaround to U.S. export rules that block the sale of the most advanced artificial intelligence chips to China—pairing the chips with a special server.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang with the Blackwell AI chip. Photo by Andrej Sokolow/picture alliance via Getty

Several months ago, an electric appliance company in eastern China put in a $120 million order for 300 servers powered by eight of Nvidia’s cutting-edge H100 chips. The order was for chips that U.S. export rules bar from sale in China.

Huawei Technologies, whose phones are a major competitor to Apple’s iPhones in China, has scheduled a big product announcement for next Tuesday, the day after Apple is expected to unveil its next iPhone. That would be an ideal time for Huawei to unveil its much-anticipated next flagship phone, ...

TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, is accelerating efforts to make its own artificial intelligence chips as it looks for an edge over its rivals in China’s AI chatbot market.

Nvidia’s relationship with its chipmaker, TSMC, is arguably the most important of the current AI boom. But a production hiccup with a new Nvidia chip shows the growing pressures in their partnership.

The U.S. Commerce Department is investigating whether Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. has been making artificial intelligence or smartphone chips for Chinese tech giant Huawei Technologies in what would be a breach of U.S. export rules, said two people with direct knowledge of the matter.

The U.S. Commerce Department is investigating whether Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. has been making artificial intelligence or smartphone

Apple has sharply scaled back production of its Vision Pro mixed reality headset since the early summer and could stop making the existing version of the device entirely by year end, according to multiple people directly involved in building components for the device.

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