U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during an event with Apple CEO Tim Cook in the Oval Office of the White House on August 6, 2025 in Washington, DC. Win Mcnamee | Getty Images President Donald Trump said Wednesday he will impose a 100% tariff on imports of semiconductors and chips, but not for companies that…
Apple CEO Tim Cook, left center, escorts President Donald Trump as he tours Apple’s Mac Pro manufacturing plant in Austin, Texas, Nov. 20, 2019. Tom Brenner | Reuters Apple CEO Tim Cook and President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday announced it will spend an additional $100 billion on U.S. companies and suppliers over the next…
China is one of Nvidia’s largest markets, particularly for data centers, gaming and artificial intelligence applications. Avishek Das | Lightrocket | Getty Images Two Chinese nationals in California have been arrested and charged with the illegal shipment of tens of millions of dollars‘ worth of AI chips, the Department of Justice said Tuesday. Chuan Geng,…
OpenAI on Tuesday released two open-weight language models for the first time since it rolled out GPT-2 in 2019. The text-only models are called gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, and are designed to serve as lower-cost options that developers, researchers and companies can easily run and customize, OpenAI said. An artificial intelligence model is considered open weight…
Lisa Su, CEO of Advanced Micro Devices, and Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, testifiy during the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee hearing titled “Winning the AI Race: Strengthening U.S. Capabilities in Computing and Innovation,” in Hart building on Thursday, May 8, 2025. Tom Williams | CQ-Roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images Advanced Micro Devices…
TSMC workers walk down a hallway in a chipmaking fab in Taiwan. The company is building three such plants in Arizona. TSMC Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. said on Tuesday that it had detected “unauthorized activities” that lead to the discovery of potential trade secret leaks. The world’s biggest semiconductor manufacturer told CNBC that it has…
CNBC’s Jim Cramer reviewed Monday’s market action and told investors that stocks’ rebound from last week was lead by positive news from the Magnificent Seven Tech stocks — Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Apple, Alphabet, Nvidia and Tesla. “Now, some of that may be because…the Fed has to cut, maybe even before September — I mean, that’s…
Photo illustration of Nvidia’s H20 chip. Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty Images Nvidia‘s H20 chips are likely to return to China, but tech experts don’t expect them to be met with the same fanfare in the market in light of new competition and regulatory scrutiny. The Trump administration last month gave Nvidia assurances…
Despite a July slowdown, BYD retains its lead in China’s competitive EV market. Anna Barclay | Getty Images News | Getty Images China’s largest EV maker BYD posted its first monthly delivery decline this year, amid stiff competition from a price war that has attracted attention from policymakers in Beijing. While other major Chinese electric…
China is one of Nvidia’s largest markets, particularly for data centers, gaming and artificial intelligence applications. Avishek Das | Lightrocket | Getty Images While Nvidia has been given assurances by Washington that it will be allowed to resume exports of its made-for-China H20 general processing units, the AI chips’ return may be met with increased…
