It's been another busy week in the chip world, with the announcement of a new Intel CEO spurring fears of larger layoffs and the company selling off its crown jewel fabs. Meanwhile, AMD continues its home run streak with another winning X3D processor arriving at retail.
We also learned more about the hijinks of GPU smugglers who bought more than a quarter of a billion dollars worth of banned AI servers under a ridiculous company name, and that's assuredly just the tip of the smuggling iceberg.
We also learned that Huawei makes all of these chip smugglers look like beginners: It tricked TSMC into fabbing not one, but two million banned processors for its line of AI products. Meanwhile, scientists with one of China's leading universities have developed an entirely new type of transistor that could outperform anything currently on the market. Let's dive in.
