Techstrong News Recap – September 6, 2022
On Sept. 6, William covered a new U.S. export ban on AI chips to Chinese tech companies, Chinese e-commerce giant Pinduoduo’s expansion to the U.S. and new scrutiny surrounding the Microsoft Activision Blizzard deal. He also talked about Meta and Qualcomm’s partnership to make VR chips and Micron’s $15 billion investment in a new semiconductor plant in the U.S. Finally, he previewed articles from Security Boulevard, DevOps.com and Container Journal, which covered identity’s role in API security, the current state of the DevOps labor market and Vmware’s support of the Kubernetes API on its vSphere platform.
Transcript
Hi again, everyone here the headlines for September 6th. First up Nvidia Corporation announced that us officials told us to stop exporting two of its Computing chips to China. The ships are used specifically for AI and machine learning applications such as building training modules for tasks like natural language processing.
The band is expected to hit a large number of tech companies including Alibaba tencent in Huawei. However, this won't stop Chinese tech companies from AI research. It will just make the research slower and more expensive in the near future speaking of China.
The Chinese Ecommerce. Giant pendulo has made its first push into the Us online shopping market. It's site timu which lists items across category such as clothing jewelry and home supplies.
Egypt what just went recently up in the US, this is Pandora Duo's biggest pushover sees yet as China faces economic challenges from a recur Resurgence of covid-19 and energy crunches. Pandora Adele could Mark A new challenge to e-commerce leader Amazon because of the site's competitively low prices taking a step back though. Penduodu was pushed to expand is in line with other Chinese big tech companies.
They continue to pursue International markets in recent years. Next Microsoft's plan to buy video game company Activision Blizzard faced another setback from British antitrust Regulators the competition and markets Authority worried that the deal would hurt Rivals by restricting access to games and would stifle competition in the growing cloud gaming Market to that end. They have given the company five days to come up with proposals for their concerns or they would investigate with heavier scrutiny the 69 billion dollar deal between Microsoft and Activision Blizzard would be the largest in the history of the tech industry and we give Microsoft control of franchises such as World of Warcraft and Candy Crush next up meta in Qualcomm have announced that they are teaming up to develop custom chips for virtual reality.
The two companies have assigned a multi-year agreement to use qualcomm's extended reality technology a combination of virtual and augmented reality meant to fuse the digital and physical world the chips make sense as metal looks to differentiate itself from other. VR products, especially when considering other companies such as Apple and Samsung have made their own processors in the past based on similar concerns. That being said though the length of in financial details of the deal have not been yet disclosed.
In other news Micron islamiconductor manufacturing company has announced it will invest $15 billion dollars through the end of the decade on a new semiconductor plant in the US. Micron is stated. The investment was made possible by the recently passed chips and science Act of 2022 which set aside 52 billion dollars for the semiconductor industry, which is that issues keeping up with the demand.
The new Factory will be located in Idaho and is expected to create around 17,000 jobs. On Security Boulevard, we have an article looking at identities role in API security identity is critical to apis with there being no authorization or accountability without it. That being said though identity can be complex.
So it is important to understand where identity is in regards to API security this article does just that to learn more go to Security Boulevard. com. We have an article looking on how to solve the devops labor deficiency.
We all know about the imbalance of the devops talent, but what exactly is the current state of the devops lager Market this article takes a look at the opinions of several. com Finally on container Journal we have an article looking at vmware's announcement of their latest version of their vsphere platform that now supports kubernetes API this new support enables. The devops teams the Streamline the management of virtual machines in kubernetes clusters VMware has stated that the goal is to reduce the number of apis at devops teams need to employ within a vsphere environment to learn more about vmware's update the vsphere go to container Journal.
And that's today's text wrong news recap.
