Jaguar Land Rover closing 2 plants in Britain due to semiconductor chip shortage
April 22 (UPI) — Jaguar Land Rover said Thursday it will shut down production for a week at its two main plants in Britain due to a global supply shortage …
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GM to close plants in U.S., Mexico this month due to chip shortage
April 8 (UPI) — Automaker General Motors says it will have to cut production at some of its assembly plants in North America due to a lingering shortage of semiconductor …
Read More GM cuts fuel-saving module from some pickups due to chip shortage
March 15 (UPI) — General Motors said Monday it has stopped including fuel-saving modules in some of its new pickup trucks due to an ongoing, industry-wide shortage of semiconductor chips. …
Read More Chip shortage forces GM to keep 3 plants in U.S., Mexico, Canada closed
Feb. 9 (UPI) — General Motors said Tuesday that three of its automotive plants in North America will remain closed until at least March due to a worldwide shortage of …
Read More Raspberry Pi Foundation launches $4 microcontroller with custom chip
Meet the Raspberry Pi Pico, a tiny little microcontroller that lets you build hardware projects with some code running on the microcontroller. Even more interesting, the Raspberry Pi Foundation is …
Read More AWS launches Trainium, its new custom ML training chip
At its annual re:Invent developer conference, AWS today announced the launch of AWS Trainium, the company’s next-gen custom chip dedicated to training machine learning models. The company promises that it …
Read More Nvidia confirms $40B purchase of Arm, bringing together two chip giants
After weeks of on-and-off speculation, Nvidia this evening confirmed that it intends to buy chip design giant Arm Holdings for a total of up to $40 billion from existing owner …
Read More Ampere announces latest chip with a 128 core processor
In the chip game, more is usually better and to that end, Ampere announced the next chip on its product roadmap today, the Altra Max, a 128 core processor, the …
Read More Huawei admits uncertainty following new US chip curbs
Following the U.S. government’s announcement that would further thwart Huawei’s chip-making capability, the Chinese telecoms equipment giant condemned the new ruling for being “arbitrary and pernicious.” “Huawei categorically opposes the …
Read More Ampere launches new chip built from ground up for cloud workloads
Ampere, the chip startup run by former Intel President Renee James, announced a new chip today that she says is designed specifically to optimize for cloud workloads. Ampere VP of …
Read More British man keeps massive potato chip in display case
That’s a big chip. A British snack eater found what can only be described as a gigantic potato chip while eating his snack. Now, he apparently has locked the chunk-sized chip away …
Read More Tesla Model 3 owner implants RFID chip to turn her arm into a key
Forget the keycard or phone app, one software engineer is trying out a new way to unlock and start her Tesla Model 3. Amie DD, who has a background in …
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