8 December 2024

Emerging smart digital technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), fifth-generation mobile communications technology (5G) and cloud computing are rapidly changing our world and the ways in which we live, communicate and work. As firms embrace the fourth industrial revolution – the continuing enhancement of traditional manufacturing practices through the use of data, interconnectivity, analytics and […]

Intel chief executive Pat Gelsinger has been forced out less than four years after taking the helm of the company, handing control to two lieutenants as the faltering American chipmaking icon searches for a permanent replacement. Gelsinger, who resigned on December 1, left after a board meeting last week during which directors felt his costly

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos joined Samsung in a US$700 million bet on Tenstorrent, valuing the AI chip start-up with ambitions of taking on Nvidia at about US$2.6 billion. Tenstorrent, which hopes to create a chip to try and break Nvidia’s stranglehold on the AI business, raised capital in a funding round led by South Korea’s

Chinese semiconductor companies newly added to a US trade blacklist said the business impact of Washington’s latest sanctions will be manageable, according to corporate filings. Beijing-based chip design tool developer Empyrean Technology, one of the 140 Chinese organisations added this week to the so-called Entity List compiled by the US Commerce Department, said the impact

China needs to boost investment in a new generation of clean energy technology including storage, hydrogen and sustainable aviation fuel, according to executives speaking at the BloombergNEF Summit in Shanghai. Huge funding for renewables and electric vehicles has already put the country on the cusp of peaking emissions, years before its own 2030 target. But

The cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI) arm of Alibaba Group Holding is collaborating with local partners to expand its services in Indonesia, Thailand and Japan, as the company prioritises markets in East and Southeast Asia in an overseas push. Under its revamped Alibaba Cloud Partner Rainforest Plan, the Hangzhou-based firm said it aims to