Waymo says it has built an ASIC chip that will improve its robotaxis' reflexes and navigational skills and help it diversify away from companies like Nvidia (Edward Ludlow/Bloomberg)
Alphabet Inc.'s Waymo has built a custom chip that the company said will improve the performance of its robotaxis …
Nvidia plans to start small-batch shipments of a new AI chip, tailored for Chinese customers, by the end of 2026. This chip complies with US export control rules.
According to The Information, this new chip is an LPU, and it is designed specifically for the Chinese market.
ByteDance and Tencent have recently taken delivery of around 10,000 Nvidia H200 accelerators each, as reported by the Financial Times. Nvidia reportedly has around 500,000 H200s built largely for Chinese customers. The US had licensed around 10 firms, including Alibaba, ByteDance, Tencent, and JD.com, to receive the H200 chips, but Beijing required case-by-case approval for purchases.
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- Sources: Nvidia plans to begin small-batch shipments of an LPU tailored for Chinese customers by the end of 2026; the chip complies with US export control rules (Qianer Liu/The Information) theinformation.com
- I'm not upgrading my RTX 4090 until Nvidia makes a GPU twice as fast, and that's probably years away xda-developers.com
