3 entries tagged semiconductors. All writing.
TECHNOLOGY · SEPTEMBER 23, 2026 The Chip China Banned Itself Into Building On September 22, Alibaba's chip unit T-Head unveiled the Zhenwu V900 at the company's Apsara Conference in Hangzhou — 216GB of on-package memory, a 1,200GB/s interconnect, and clusters scaling to 500,000 units, which CEO Eddie Wu called "the most powerful AI chip in China today." The obvious story is the timing, one day before Xi Jinping landed in Washington for his first US state visit in three years. The more interesting story is who actually kept Nvidia's H200 out of China — and it wasn't only Washington. WORLD · SEPTEMBER 23, 2026 The Chip Doesn't Have to Cross a Border On September 18, House Select Committee on China chairman John Moolenaar wrote to Trump urging him to close the "cloud services loophole" in chip export controls. Less than a week before Xi Jinping's first state visit to the White House since 2015, the letter's real weight falls on a second ask: curbing sales of the equipment that makes the chips in the first place. TECHNOLOGY · SEPTEMBER 12, 2026 Two Nanometres of Nothing: What Apple's New Chip Actually Changed The A20 Pro in the iPhone 18 Pro is the first phone chip made on a "2-nanometre" process. Nothing on it is two nanometres wide; the number stopped measuring anything about a decade ago. What did change is real and fourteen years overdue: the transistor's gate now wraps all the way around the channel instead of three sides of a fin. This is what that means, why the fin had to go, and why the label survives anyway.