Warmest December greetings! AI technology and its impacts splashed around the world last week, here’s a fast (10:52) review of new developments, including: Nvidia H200 exports to China; H20, H200 and Chinese AI chips: how do they stack up?;few fast GPUs vs. many slow GPUs; China’s power capacity dusts the West; cell-phone sized AI supercomputers; regulating AI
News Bytes 20251215: On-Off-On GPU Exports to China, the US-China Power Gap, Pocket-Sized HPC, Regulating AI
TSMC to Add Chip Design Center in Germany for AI, Other Sectors
TSMC announced today it will open a new chip design center in Munich by the third quarter of this year, something viewed as European Union victory as it pursues self-reliance in chip production. According to an article on the MarketScreener (with Reuters) ….
Axelera AI Wins EuroHPC Grant of up to €61.6M for AI Chiplet Development
AI hardware maker Axelera AI has unveiled Titania, which the company described as a high-performance, low-power and scalable AI inference chiplet. Part of the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking’s effort to develop a ….
IBM’s Groundbreaking Analog AI Chip: Ushers New Era of Efficiency and Accuracy
In this contributed article blogger Justin Varghise discusses the ground breaking advancement for AI that IBM has unveiled – a cutting edge analog AI chip that promises and has potential to redefine the landscape of deep neural networks (DNNs). This chip is 100 times more energy-efficient and up to 10 times faster than traditional digital AI chips for performing deep neural network (DNN) computations.
SambaNova Unveils New AI Chip, the SN40L, Powering its Full Stack AI Platform
SambaNova Systems, makers of the purpose-built, full stack AI platform, announced a revolutionary new chip, the SN40L. The SN40L will power SambaNova’s full stack large language model (LLM) platform, the SambaNova Suite, with its revolutionary new design: on the inside it offers both dense and sparse compute, and includes both large and fast memory, making it a truly “intelligent chip.”
Why Truly Smart Future Tech Needs Radically New AI Chips
In this contributed article, Orr Danon, CEO and Co-Founder of Hailo, believes that to fuel drones and autonomous vehicles reliant on high-performance cameras, being paired with an AI chip capable of processing and performing image classification tasks with near-zero latency in real time is critical.









