In this articleBAA view shows the wreckage of an Air India aircraft, bound for London's Gatwick Airport, which crashed during take-off from an airport in Ahmedabad, India June 12, 2025. Adnan Abidi | ReutersAn Air India plane that was bound for London and carrying 242 people crashed seconds after takeoff in western India on Thursday, killing all but one person on board the Boeing 787 Dreamliner.It marked the first crash of a Boeing 787 Dreamliner and was the deadliest plane crash in years.Here's what to kno ...

In this articleAMDLisa Su, CEO of Advanced Micro Devices, testifies 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 ImagesAdvanced Micro Devices on Thursday unveiled new details about its next-generation AI chips, the Instinct MI400 series, that will ship next year.The MI400 chips will be able to be assembled ...

A visitor walks past a Google Cloud sign at the booth of Google during the Hanover technology Fair (Hannover Messe) on April 22, 2024 in Hanover, northern Germany, with Norway as partner country.Google's cloud was suffering from global outages on Thursday, as were other cloud-based services. Users on social media reported that several major internet services were experiencing disruptions due to Google cloud platforms."We are experiencing service issues with multiple GCP products," a status page from Google ...

In this articleNVDANvidia CEO Jensen Huang gives a keynote address at CES 2025, an annual consumer electronics trade show, in Las Vegas on Jan. 6, 2025.Steve Marcus | ReutersA version of this article first appeared in CNBC's Inside Wealth newsletter with Robert Frank, a weekly guide to the high-net-worth investor and consumer. Sign up to receive future editions, straight to your inbox.Nvidia's soaring stock price has supercharged CEO Jensen Huang's fortunes – as well as his charitable giving.Over the past f ...

Late Wednesday, Chime raised about $700 million in its offering, and existing investors sold an additional $165 million worth of shares. The stock is trading under the ticker symbol CHYM. Chime's IPO, from a valuation perspective, represents a big step down from where venture investors like Sequoia Capital valued the company in its last fundraising round in 2021, when private tech markets were raging. The valuation at the time was $25 billion. Still, Chime's offering is the latest sign that the fintech IPO ...

Larry Ellison, Oracle's co-founder, chief technology officer and chairman, at right, and U.S. President Donald Trump share a laugh as Ellison uses a stool to stand on as he speaks during a news conference in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington on Jan. 21, 2025. Trump announced an investment in artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure and took questions on a range of topics including his presidential pardons of Jan. 6 defendants, the war in Ukraine, cryptocurrencies and other topics.Oracle ...

There are 973 U.S. firms with operations in Ireland, according to the American Chamber of Commerce Ireland. Members of President Donald Trump's administration have signaled that some of that activity should return to the states. "They have all the IP for all our great tech companies and pharma companies," Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said in an appearance on the All-In podcast in March. "Those things got to end." Companies such as Apple, Microsoft and Pfizer appear to have taken steps to stow intellect ...

From about the 1960s to the mid-1980s, the United States was a leader in uranium mining. But domestic production of the mineral, which is primarily used as fuel for nuclear reactors, has since fallen off a cliff. "A lot of this was because it was a government priority. And we strategically used government funding and subsidies to support it. However, what kind of started happening during the 90s is we saw a de-prioritization away from uranium," said Gracelin Baskaran, director of the Critical Minerals Secur ...

法国半导体产业雄心 - 法国总统马克龙提出要在法国制造2纳米至10纳米的最先进芯片，以将法国定位为欧洲关键科技中心[1][3] - 马克龙表示需要生产更多合适规模的芯片来巩固法国工业[3] - 法国正探索与台积电或三星合作在当地建厂的可能性，类似美国模式[5] 法国半导体产业现状 - STMicroelectronics目前不处于半导体制造前沿，主要生产汽车等行业用芯片[3] - 全球仅有少数公司如三星和台积电能大规模生产3纳米等尖端芯片[4] - 法国已促成泰雷兹、Radiall与富士康探讨在法建立半导体封装测试设施[5] 法国AI产业发展 - 英伟达CEO黄仁勋宣布与法国Mistral AI合作建设"AI云"基础设施[6] - 法国AI领域预计未来几年将获得1090亿欧元(1256亿美元)私人投资[6] - 马克龙称英伟达与Mistral AI的合作是法国AI建设的重大进展[6][7] 产业背景 - 欧洲科技公司和国家正在重新评估对国外关键技术公司的依赖[2] - 英伟达首款GPU由法国SGS Thomson Microelectronics(现STMicroelectronics)制造[2] - 芯片纳米数越小，晶体管密度越高，性能越强，如苹果最新iPhone采用3纳米技术[4]

中美半导体竞争格局 - 美国限制中国获取先进AI芯片及关键技术 导致中国转向华为等本土替代方案 [1][2] - 中国已投入数百亿美元试图突破半导体产业链瓶颈 但在AI芯片生态构建上仍有差距 [3][4] - 美国出口管制既刺激中国发展替代方案 又增加了本土企业研发难度 [3] AI芯片设计领域 - 英伟达凭借GPU设计主导全球AI芯片市场 其受限版本H20仍领先中国本土产品 [5][6][7] - 华为海思Ascend 910B GPU量产中 下一代910C预计落后英伟达仅1年 性能差距缩小至不足一代 [9][10] - 中国涌现燧原科技、壁仞科技等初创企业 试图填补英伟达留下的市场需求 [8] AI芯片制造环节 - 台积电为英伟达主要代工厂 受美国禁令限制无法为华为等黑名单企业代工 [11] - 中芯国际可量产7纳米芯片 疑似突破5纳米工艺 但量产先进GPU仍面临良率与成本挑战 [12][13] - 华为自建晶圆厂计划推进中 但关键设备短缺制约发展 [14] 先进芯片设备瓶颈 - 荷兰ASML被禁向中国出售EUV光刻机 该设备对3纳米以下制程至关重要 [15][16] - 中芯国际采用DUV光刻机生产7纳米芯片 但良率低下且技术接近极限 [17] - 中国SiCarrier等企业研发替代光刻技术 但完全自主需数十年或转向创新路径 [18] AI内存组件现状 - HBM内存成为AI训练关键部件 韩国SK海力士、三星主导市场 美国限制其向中国出口 [19][20] - 中国长鑫存储与通富微电合作开发HBM 预计落后国际龙头3-4年 [21][22] - 华为Ascend 910C仍依赖三星HBM库存 显示中国在关键部件对外依存度高 [24]