2026-08-19
Nvidia’s H200 finally reaches Chinese buyers, though maybe not mainland China
After eight months of export licences that moved almost nothing, Nvidia’s H200 accelerators have started arriving at Chinese technology companies. ByteDance and Tencent have each received about 10,000 of the processors in recent weeks, according to the Financial Times, with other Chinese groups expected to secure similar volumes shortly. Even taken at face value, the […]<br /> This story [...]
2026-08-19
SK Hynix will buy back $28.6bn of its own shares, the biggest repurchase in Korean corporate history
SK Hynix will buy back 40 trillion won of its own stock, about $28.6bn at prevailing exchange rates, in what Korean media are calling the largest repurchase ever announced by a listed company in the country. The board approved the programme on Wednesday and every share bought will be cancelled outright rather than held in treasury. The […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-08-19
Cerebras launches the CS-4, its first multi-wafer system, though the chip inside is not new
Cerebras has put three of its dinner-plate-sized processors into a single rack for the first time. The CS-4, unveiled on Tuesday at the company’s Supernova event and shipping this quarter, is pitched as an inference machine for frontier models, and Cerebras says it runs them up to 30 times faster than GPU-based systems. The launch […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-08-19
Pennsylvania just made itself one of the hardest US states to build a data centre in
Governor Josh Shapiro signed an executive order on Tuesday that makes Pennsylvania one of the harder places in America to build an AI data centre. The order strips data centres from the state’s permit fast-track programme, blocks environmental review until developers have secured local approval, and bars state agencies from signing non-disclosure agreements on data centre projects. […]<br [...]
