China Intends to Exceed 300 Exaflops Aggregate Compute Power by 2025

The People’s Republic of China, so cagy in recent years regarding its leadership-class supercomputing resources, on Sunday declared its intent to exceed 300 exaflops of aggregate computing power within two years, a 50 percent increase over its current stated capacity of 200 exaflops. This in the face of tightening sanctions imposed by the U.S. on the export of….

Chip Geopolitics: If China Invades, Make Taiwan ‘Unwantable’ by Destroying TSMC, Military Paper Suggests

US military planners are taking notice of a suggestion by two military scholars calling for the destruction of semiconductor foundry company Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), whose fabs produce advanced microprocessors used in HPC and AI, in the event China invades the island nation A news story in today’ edition of Data Center Times cites […]

Hyperion Research Announces Enhanced Coverage of China’s HPC Market

ST. PAUL, Minn., December 21, 2021 – Hyperion Research said that after years of research and relationship-building in China, the company will now report in much greater detail on China’s increasingly important high performance computing (HPC) and advanced AI market. In the past decade, China has risen from a minor HPC player to challenge the […]