Chip Shortage

The acquisition grants Nvidia a near-perfect hedge against risks to its core business. It puts the AI chipmaker at the centre of the AI open-weight model distribution ecosystem. However, Nvidia's handling of Hugging Face will need to be delicate.

As one of the world's top suppliers of advanced chips amid a global shortage, SK Hynix has become a golden goose not only for the South Korean government, but also for its retail investors. Will the firm be able to balance diverse interests?

Amazon Web Services, the company’s cloud-computing arm, has opened discussions with potential customers looking to use its custom Trainium chips.

Google has raised the stakes in the contest to develop the world’s fastest and most efficient artificial-intelligence chips.

But the search giant’s custom chips may prove tricky for others to adopt

Chip companies are making more high-bandwidth memory chips—used in graphic processing units that Nvidia sells for artificial intelligence data centres. This has created a supply shortage of general-purpose chips.

The Dutch government’s move to take control of chipmaker Nexperia has provoked Chinese retaliation, constricting supplies of critical chips used in millions of vehicles across the world, including those made by Indian carmakers.

Chinese-owned chip maker Nexperia told suppliers last week it wouldn’t ship product after the Dutch government took control of the company.