US chipmaker Qualcomm is moving production of its automotive modules to India as part of a broader plan to strengthen local manufacturing and support its key ecosystem partners, a senior executive said Nakul Duggal, group general manager for automotive, industrial and embedded IoT at Qualcomm Technologies, was quoted as saying by news agency PTI that the company is working closely with its Tier 1 partners to help them relocate manufacturing to India

Publication : The Times of India

Nvidia has unveiled Cosmos Reason AI, a reasoning vision language model (VLM), designed to give robots the ability to plan and act with human-like understanding of the physical world.

Publication : India Today

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has reportedly asked companies to explain why they need to use Nvidia s chips rather than domestically developed ones, such as those from Huawei, Nvidia’s main Chinese rival in the AI chip race, as per the Reuters report.

Publication : The Economic Times

Just days after calling for his immediate resignation, US President Donald Trump has praised Intel chief executive LipBu Tan, following a meeting he described as very interesting, according to a Reuters report.

Publication : India Today

Intel issued a conciliatory statement Monday following CEO Lip-Bu Tan’s White House visit, emphasizing the company’s commitment to American technology leadership after President Trump’s recent call for the executive’s resignation over alleged China ties.

Publication : The Times of India

The Union Cabinet has approved four semiconductor plants, including a unit backed by US technology major Intel and Lockheed Martin, entailing a total investment of Rs 4,594 crore in three states of Odisha, Andhra Pradesh and Punjab, Information & Broadcasting Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Tuesday.

Publication : The Week

Trump’s remarks came on the heels of a separate arrangement that his administration has already finalised with Nvidia. Under that deal, the company will be able to sell its H20 AI chip — a less advanced model compared to Blackwell — to China. In exchange, Nvidia will hand over 15 per cent of the revenue from those sales to the US government. A similar arrangement has also been extended to rival chipmaker AMD for its MI308 processors.

Publication : India Today

The Chinese government’s stance could hinder Nvidia and AMD from selling their hardware in the world’s largest semiconductor market. It also prompts questions about the Trump administration’s justification for allowing those exports just months after effectively banning such sales.

Publication : The Financial Express

According to that report, Nvidia and its rival AMD agreed to give the US government 15 per cent of the money they make from selling these specific chips to China. The US government, under Donald Trump, had allowed the sales of AI chips to resume on this very condition, just months after banning more advanced chips from entering the Chinese market.

Publication : The Week

Chinese Authorities Have urged local companies to avoid using Nvidia’s H20 chips, particularly for government-related purposes, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday, a move likely to hamper the company’s efforts to service the key China market.

Publication : The Financial Express

Still, it’s possible that Beijing may extend its heavier-handed Nvidia and AMD guidance to a wider range of settings, according to one person with direct knowledge of the deliberations, who said that those conversations are in early stages. AMD declined to comment, while Nvidia said in a statement that “the H20 is not a military product or for government infrastructure.”

Publication : Business Standard