Silicon Valley startup Lightmatter revealed on Wednesday it had developed a new type of computer chip that could both speed ...

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The Trump administration has backed off plans to impose further restrictions on the chips Nvidia can sell to China.

the specialized computer chips called graphics processing units, or GPUs. Companies like the Silicon Valley chipmaker Nvidia originally designed these chips to render graphics for video games.

“This is a new type of computer. And it’s here.” The photonic components for both devices can be manufactured using the same factories and processes that already produce electronic ...

Nvidia, TSMC, and other chip stocks fell Thursday following US president Trump’s announcement of sweeping reciprocal tariffs ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -Silicon Valley startup Lightmatter revealed on Wednesday it had developed a new type of computer chip that could both speed up artificial intelligence work and use less ...