U.S. presidential debate, South Korea unemployment

U.S. presidential debate, South Korea unemployment

The upscale shopping district of Ginza in Tokyo, Japan, on Saturday, May 4, 2024.  Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Asia-Pacific markets opened lower on Wednesday, despite gains on Wall Street ahead of the U.S. August consumer inflation report due Wednesday. Traders in Asia parsed key economic data from Japan and South Korea. South Korea reported … Read more

What’s likely to move the market

What’s likely to move the market

Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., September 9, 2024.  Brendan Mcdermid | Reuters Stocks @ Night is a daily newsletter delivered after hours, giving you a first look at tomorrow and last look at today. Sign up for free to receive it directly in your inbox. … Read more

U.S. rolls out new chip-related export controls as China makes industry advances

U.S. rolls out new chip-related export controls as China makes industry advances

Digitally Generated Images Wong Yu Liang | Moment | Getty Images The Biden administration is rolling out new export controls on critical technologies, including quantum computing and semiconductor goods, as China makes advances in the global chips industry. Released by the U.S. Department of Commerce on Friday, the rules cover quantum computers and components; advanced … Read more

Nvidia sinks and data’s weak, but hold on

Nvidia sinks and data’s weak, but hold on

The Nvidia headquarters in Santa Clara, California, US, on Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024.  Loren Elliott | Bloomberg | Getty Images This report is from today’s CNBC Daily Open, our international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed on everything they need to know, no matter where they are. Like what you see? … Read more

Asian chip stocks fall after Nvidia sell-off on Wall Street overnight

Asian chip stocks fall after Nvidia sell-off on Wall Street overnight

People walk past the logo of Samsung Electronics in Seoul on July 7, 2022. South Korea’s Samsung Electronics Co Ltd turned in its best April-June profit since 2018 on Thursday, underpinned by strong sales of memory chips to server customers even as demand from inflation-hit smartphone makers cools. Jung Yeon-je | Afp | Getty Images … Read more

Nvidia sell-off, weak U.S. data, Australia GDP

Nvidia sell-off, weak U.S. data, Australia GDP

A wafer of DISCO Corporation is pictured at the company’s booth at the Semicon Japan exhibition in Tokyo on December 16, 2022. Yuichi Yamazaki | AFP | Getty Images Asia-Pacific markets are set to fall on Wednesday, tracking losses on Wall Street after and tech stocks sold off and weak U.S. economic data sparked recession … Read more

Nvidia (NVDA) shares fall after earnings beat estimates

Nvidia (NVDA) shares fall after earnings beat estimates

NVIDIA’s founder and CEO Jensen Huang delivers a keynote address on the latest innovations in AI, during a developers conference at the SAP Center in San Jose, California, on March 18, 2024.  Josh Edelson | AFP | Getty Images Nvidia shares fell 4.63% in U.S. premarket trade on Thursday, as the company’s fiscal second-quarter gross … Read more

Tech stocks in Asia fall amid broad declines in the region after Nvidia results

Tech stocks in Asia fall amid broad declines in the region after Nvidia results

Samsung Electronics’ fourth-generation high bandwidth memory or HBM3 chips have been cleared by Nvidia for use in its processors for the first time, three people briefed on the matter said. SeongJoon Cho | Bloomberg | Getty Images Tech and chip-related stocks in Asia fell on Thursday, after U.S. chip darling Nvidia reported its second-quarter results … Read more

How Google makes custom cloud chips that power Apple AI and Gemini

How Google makes custom cloud chips that power Apple AI and Gemini

Inside a sprawling lab at Google headquarters in Mountain View, California, hundreds of server racks hum across several aisles, performing tasks far less ubiquitous than running the world’s dominant search engine or executing workloads for Google Cloud’s millions of customers. Instead, they’re running tests on Google’s own microchips, called Tensor Processing Units, or TPUs. Originally … Read more

Intel sells stake in UK chip designer Arm amid company-wide restructuring and cost cuts

Intel sells stake in UK chip designer Arm amid company-wide restructuring and cost cuts

A sign is posted in front of Intel headquarters on August 01, 2024 in Santa Clara, California.  Justin Sullivan | Getty Images News | Getty Images Intel has sold its 1.18 million share stake in British chip firm Arm Holdings, according to a regulatory filing, as the California chip designer shores up its balance sheet … Read more