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Ramish Zafar

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Ramish is a seasoned technology writer and editor with more than a decade of experience. He specializes in semiconductor fabrication and market analysis.

With a background in finance and supply chain management - via his bachelors in Finance and a micromasters in supply chain management from MIT - Ramish combines financial rigor with deep industry insight to deliver accurate and authoritative coverage.

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NVIDIA’s Global Headquarters Will Be In Taiwan, With CEO Huang Set To Announce Site Next Week, Says Report

According to a report in the Taiwanese press, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang is expected to announce his firm's global headquarters in Taiwan next week. The announcement will come as part of Huang's visit to Taiwan for the Computex 2025 annual technology conference, which will be held in Taipei next week. Industry insiders suggest that NVIDIA has been scouting the location of its Taiwanese headquarters for months, and Huang's potential announcement will underscore the close relationship between his firm and Taiwan's TSMC. NVIDIA's Overseas Headquarters Can Be Located In Taipei, Say Insiders While it's certain that NVIDIA's global headquarters will be […]

3 min read May 13, 2025
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Chinese AI Lab DeepSeek Has 50,000 NVIDIA H100 AI GPUs, Says AI CEO

Chinese artificial intelligence lab DeepSeek, whose artificial intelligence model R1 took the industry by storm this month, has access to tens of thousands of NVIDIA's GPUs for training, believes the CEO of an AI company. DeepSeek R1 is one of the most advanced AI models in the world, and it stands shoulder to shoulder with leading American platforms such as OpenAI's o1 and Meta's Llama.NVIDIA's Hopper chips are its current generation GPUs, which are the most widely used in the world as the firm ramps up shipments of the next-generation Blackwell chips. The latest details were shared by Scale AI's […]

3 min read Jan 25, 2025

SpaceX’s Starship Flight 8 Suffers A Delay As Upper Stage Rocket Doesn’t Ship To Pad

SpaceX's Starship Flight 8, which was initially scheduled to fly on Friday, has now been delayed to Monday, the firm shared in an update earlier today. Starship Flight 8 will repeat Flight 7's test objectives and come a month and a half after the previous test resulted in a spectacular mid-air explosion, which sent debris raining down over the Caribbean. The delay follows after SpaceX shipped the Super Heavy booster to the pad earlier this week, and a Friday launch would have left little time for the firm to test the full Starship stack via a wet dress rehearsal. SpaceX […]

3 min read Feb 27, 2025

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