Tag: NVIDIA

Firmus strikes new AI chip access deal with Nvidia

Posted on   |  by Scott Murdoch
Australian AI infrastructure company Firmus Technologies said on Monday it had signed a strategic partnership with Nvidia Corp to help provide emerging AI firms with more cost-effective access to...

NEXTDC and Firmus arm for AI with $1.7 billion raise

Posted on   |  by David Allen
Two of Australia’s largest data centre developers have come back from the Easter break to announce a cumulative $1.7 billion finance raise, as artificial intelligence-driven demand for domestic compute...

Huawei’s new AI chip brings in ByteDance, Alibaba

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Customer testing of Huawei’s new AI chip, designed to challenge Nvidia in the China market, has gone well and big tech giants including ByteDance and Alibaba plan to place...

US mulls new rules for AI chip exports

Posted on   |  by Alexandra Alper and Stephen Nellis
US officials are debating a new regulatory framework for exporting artificial intelligence chips and are considering requiring foreign nations to invest in US AI data centers or security guarantees...

Firmus lands $100m from Maas for AI infrastructure push

Posted on   |  by David Allen
Firmus Technologies has secured a $100 million equity injection from construction materials and equipment giant Maas Group, pushing total investment in the AI infrastructure startup past $800 million. Maas...

Trump imposes 25pc tariff on imports of some AI chips

Posted on   |  by Ismail Shakil, Bhargav Acharya and Chris Sanders
US President Donald Trump has imposed a 25 per cent tariff on certain AI chips, such as the Nvidia H200 AI processor and a similar semiconductor from AMD called...

Data centre cooling startup soars to $6b valuation

Posted on   |  by David Allen
Data centre infrastructure startup Firmus Technologies has tripled its valuation to $6 billion in eight weeks after pulling in another $500 million from investors to build its ‘AI factories’...