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Nvidia is ready for the chip for the need to survive in China. Who is not ready to let him sell is the US government

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The journey in China of the Nvidia GPU for artificial intelligence (AI) H20 He has been full of ups and downs. Since this chip reached the Chinese market in mid -2024 its sales 50% quarter to quarter grewwhich positioned it as The most successful Nvidia product of recent years. However, this era of bonanza lasted little. And it is that in the middle of last April the US Department of Commerce decided impose export restrictions To China of the H20 GPU. After several weeks of negotiations with the US government Nvidia got the export license that he needed to sell his GPU for the H20 in China, but the joy lasted little. And it is that the Chinese government has vetoed this chip. And he has done so that the administration of the cyberspace of China, which is the main Internet regulatory body in this country, is thoroughly investigating this GPU because it suspects that it could incorporate a rear door of difficult location by Chinese experts. Nvidia engineers have been working on a new GPU for several months for expressly designed for the Chinese market. It will be called B30A And on his shoulders he will rest, neither more nor less, the future of the company led by Jensen Huang in China. This chip must necessarily meet two conditions. On the one hand it has to be more powerful than the GPU H20, and, in addition, it must satisfy the restrictions imposed by the US Department of Commerce. Otherwise Nvidia will not get the export license you need to be able to sell this chip in this Asian country. The future of the B30A GPU in China right now is uncertain Chinese companies that are dedicated to the development of large AI models are trapped. On the one hand they are being forced to deal with the export restrictions of the GPU imposed by the US government. And, in addition, they are subject to their own dependence on American technology. A priori the optimal solution for them would be to stop buying Nvidia and other US companies their chips for AI, and getting “comparable” GPUs proposed by Huawei, Change either Moore Threadsamong other Chinese companies. Jensen Huang has just recognized that his next GPU will take to arrive in the country led by Xi Jinping However, as explained in your article to Foreign Policy The American analyst Kyle Chan, the scenario they face is more complicated than it seems. And it is that abandoning Nvidia in practice is very difficult. According to ChanTencent, Bytedance, Alibaba and other Chinese companies They prefer GPUs for Nvidia Because its performance is greater, especially when facing the training processes of their AI models. However, they especially opt for the chips of this American company thanks to CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture). Most of the AI ​​projects that are currently being developed are implemented on CUDA. This technology brings together the compiler and development tools used by programmers to develop their software for NVIDIA GPUs, and replace it with another option in the projects that are already underway it is a problem. Huawei, who aspires to an important portion From this market in China, it has Cann (Compute Architecture for Neural Networks), which is its alternative to CUDA, but for the moment CUDA dominates the market. In these circumstances, the B30A chip that is putting to point Nvidia has all the meaning of the world. Presumably It will be half powerful that the most advanced GPU this company currently has, The B300 chipbut, even so, it is reasonable to assume that will overcome performance of all the chips for the developed in China, especially when facing the training processes of the AI ​​models. This is the best asset that Nvidia has, but Jensen Huang has just recognized that its next GPU will take to arrive in the country led by Xi Jinping. And it will not be because it is not ready. It will be because the US Trade Department will take long to give it approval, if it finally gives it. What is happening to Nvidia in China is a full -fledged soap opera. Image | Nvidia More information | Reuters In Xataka | The US gives Huawei a great opportunity: to get its new chip for AI with the Nvidia market in China

Nvidia had a struggle to sell her H20 to China. Until someone left the language in the US government

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A little over a month ago, Nvidia got what seemed impossible: that the United States government would leave him Sell your H20 chip to China. The movement arrived after the prohibition of doing so in April, when a complicated scenario was drawn: that Nvidia entered this year 15,000 million dollars less, according to the company. Everything was going well, until Howard Lutnick, Secretary of Commerce of the United States, left the language. What Lutnick said. On July 15, just the day after raising the veto to export control over the NVIDIA H20, the US Secretary of Commerce boasted in statements to CNBC That “we do not sell our best things, nor the best best, not even the best thirds.” The comment itself is correct, because the H20 are not up to chips like the NVIDIA H100, H200 either B200. But in Beijing he didn’t like it. Why it is important. Because as the Financial Timessome leaders have considered the comments insulting, and China has reacted restricting the purchases of the NVIDIA H20, and requires companies that already have purchases agreed with the American technological technology to justify purchases. The result, according to the Financial Times, is that orders are being delayed or reducing. A China Data Center Operator He affirmed That buying chips “is not prohibited, but it has become something politically incorrect.” According to Bloombergthe Chinese authorities sent notices to national companies to stop using the H20 chips, especially with regard to government -related issues. The administration of the Cyberspace of China (CAC), the National Commission for Development and Reform (NDRC) and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) were the agencies that make up a coalition of regulators involved in responding with measures to the comments of Lutnick. More firewood on fire. The notices of the Chinese authorities are still informal, but they suppose one more escalation in the problems of Nvidia, after the suspicions of the Chinese CAC that They are scamming himwhich led to questioning Nvidia in China to demonstrate that H20 does not represent a threat to interest and security in China. The company has spoken very clearly: “No rear doors“In his chips, but The tension that USA and China live is leaving it without options. Being able to sell chips in China has cost Nvidia to leave Trump administration 15% of the total income of exports to the Asian country. A huge concession made to improve its commercial position, but that aims not to be enough after the reaction to Lutnick’s comments. China is an essential market for those of Jensen Huang, but the succession of events is transforming it into a nightmare. USA It faces the dilemma to sell Hardware from AI to China or not do so and develop them them. The succession of events points to the second. The government’s ambition collides with the reality of Chinese companies. The movement to limit the purchase of H20 by the Chinese government also responds to a plan: Prioritize national chips. It forces data centers that belong to the State to use at least 50% of integrated circuits of Chinese origin on their servers. This benefits Huawei, who is already competitive with his Ascend 910D, which seeks to overcome the performance of NVIDIA H100, and with the Ascend 920, which wants to compete with the H20. However, Production will be limitedand it is the Chinese companies themselves (Tencent, Alibaba and others) that They prefer to use the US company GPUsfor a reason: because its performance is greater. China has its alternative to Cuda, but Nvidia’s weapon remains the undisputed software leader in the AI market. To the point that Chinese companies play it and the NVIDIA GPUs They sweep the black market. The question is whether this phenomenon will continue to occur if China takes tougher measures. Image | Nvidia and Flickr In Xataka | China’s three master moves to “independent” technologically from the West: raw materials, chips, AI

The US will not allow Intel to fall into full confrontation with China. The government has a plan to prevent it

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Intel has just received a very important vote of trust in A moment of weakness. The Japanese Softbank investment group has just injected into this company 2,000 million dollarswhich has consolidated it as the sixth share of Intel. According to Reutersthis Japanese company has promised not to participate in the Board of Directors, and it will not buy integrated circuits produced by this American chip manufacturer. Even so, everyone wins. For SoftBank this investment is important because Intel will interpret in the future an essential role in the US semiconductor industry. “This strategic investment supports our conviction that the manufacture and supply of advanced semiconductors will expand further in the US with Intel playing a fundamental role,” has declared Masayoshi arethe CEO of SoftBank. On the other hand, these 2,000 million dollars arrive just after Intel has dispensed with Between 8,000 and 10,900 workers of its factories with the purpose of reducing their operating expenses and increasing their competitiveness. However, the company led by Lip-Bu so has something else in hand. Something very important. And is that, According to BloombergIt is negotiating with the Trump administration the possibility that the State acquires a 10% participation in Intel. The largest integrated circuit manufacturer in the United States cannot fall Most of the decisions made by the US government since Donald Trump returned to the White House On January 20, it pursues a single objective: the American semiconductor industry must be strengthened and independent. Intel is the biggest manufacturer of US chips, so allowing its fall is not an option for the government. The possibility of the State participating in Intel’s shareholders reinforces this precept, although this company has already acquired an unavoidable commitment to the administration. Intel is the largest US chips manufacturer, so allowing its fall is not an option for the government In mid -September 2024 Intel published a statement in which he anticipated that he will receive a maximum of 3,000 million dollars within the framework of the ‘Chips and Science Act’ program to manufacture in a reliable way semiconductors for the US government. The name of this plan, “Safe Enclave”, reflects one of the requirements required by the Administration: Chips must be produced in the strictest confidentiality. The Commerce Department confirmed that it was evaluating the possibility of Intel reserving a restricted area in some of its integrated circuit manufacturing plants specifically for the production of chips for defense and intelligence applications. What is not yet clear is who will take care of the expenses derived from the tuning of this “exclusion zone” within the factories. They can be borne by Intel, but this money is likely to finally come from the subsidies of the State. There is something important in which we have not yet repaired: the Defense Department is interested in using Intel’s 18th node. At the beginning of September 2024 this company confirmed that the 20A node will be skipped To reduce expenses and It will derive its resources to the 18A node. According to Ben SellVice President of Intel Technology Development, the 18A node has reached the maturity necessary to enter production in 2025 and will benefit from the resources that will be reallocated from the 20A node. Although the latter at the end will not go into large -scale production will be remembered for being the first in which Intel introduced two important innovations: transistors Ribbonfet Gate-Lall-Around (GAA) and Powervia energy delivery technology. Image | Intel More information | Reuters | Bloomberg In Xataka | Intel has confirmed that the 20A node will be skipped to reduce expenses. The 18A node will enter production in 2025

The divorce of China and Nvidia is a fact. The Xi Jinping government no longer recommends Chinese chips: it demands them

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China is touring a path that has no going back. US sanctions and their allies prevent Chinese companies and public institutions that are dedicated to the development of models of artificial intelligence (AI) access the most advanced GPUs that design NVIDIA, AMD or brains, among other Western alignment companies. And in these circumstances the government led by Xi Jinping only has one option: minimize China’s dependence of technologies from abroad. In early October 2024 The administration arrived To the companies of Chinese a recommendation in which it asked them to use chips produced in China as much as possible. Ten months later, According to SCMPthis recommendation has become a demand. And it is that the Chinese government is already forcing data centers that belong to the State throughout the country to use at least 50% of Chinese integrated circuits on its servers. This scenario clearly favors a company: Huawei. Huawei has a unique opportunity, but also a monumental challenge Huawei invests more than $ 25,000 million annually in The development of your hardware for AIso presumably it will not take long to match the benefits of the GPUs produced by NVIDIA or AMD. His most ambitious proposal right now is the chip Ascend 910dwho seeks to overcome the performance of the GPU NVIDIA H100. However, this Chinese company has also recently presented its chip Ascend 920a solution that is clearly destined to occupy in the Chinese market the gaps that it will leave The H20 GPU of Nvidia. This proposal will enter large -scale production during the second half of 2025 using 6 NM integration technology that have presumably developed elbow with Huawei elbow and SMIC (Semiconductor manufacturing international corp). Nevertheless, Huawei faces a huge challenge that probably in the short term it will prevent you from satisfying the demand for chips for Ia from the Chinese market. In the middle of last June Jeffrey Kessler, the Undersecretary of Commerce for Industry and Security of the US Department of Commerce, He made this statement In Congress: “Our evaluation indicates that the production capacity of Huawei Ascend “Our evaluation indicates that the production capacity of Huawei Ascend by 2025 will be 200,000 units or less, and we foresee that the majority or all of that production will be delivered to companies within China.” This prediction about the production capacity of avant -garde chips for Huawei is sustained on an irrefutable fact: the mate of the integration technologies used by the Chinese manufacturer of SMIC semiconductors to produce the Huawei GPUs has a very wide margin of improvement. SMIC already has the ability to manufacture 6 Nm integrated circuits, and soon it can also produce 5 Nm semiconductors, but is limited by the performance of the deep ultraviolet lithography equipment (UVP) you have in your possession. It is meritorious that SMIC and HUAWEI engineers have managed to refine their integrated circuit manufacturing processes what is necessary to produce 5, 6 and 7 nm chips With ASML UVP teams, but a priori it is very unlikely that with these machines they will be able to go beyond the 3 Nm. And it is because the technique of Multiple patterningwhich is what they are using, imposes important limitations. A note: This strategy in broad strokes consists in transferring the pattern to the wafer in several passes with the purpose of increasing the resolution of the lithographic process. His problem is that he usually has an upward impact on the cost of chips and the decline in production capacity. For Huawei it is a big problem not to have the necessary technology to produce avant -garde semiconductors comparable to those who manufacture Intel, TSMC or Samsung, so it is working on the development of its own team of extreme ultraviolet photolithography (UVE). More information | SCMP In Xataka | Nvidia has to deal with the absolute distrust of several US legislators. His plan in China is in danger In Xataka | The US wants to end the chips for the Chinese that are sold abroad. And China knows how to defend oneself

The government emptied a reservoir in Cáceres to eradicate an invading fish. The remedy was worse than the disease

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Just eight months ago, Alcollarín dressed in gala. This small town of Cáceres, with just over 300 neighbors, was presented at the International Tourism Fair of Madrid as a privileged corner to observe birds, throw the cane or walk next to its reservoir, blue mirror in the middle of the pasture. Today, the postcard has completely changed. Where the water was shone before, now a lodazal splashed from dead fish is extended. The air, loaded with a sour smell, reaches the streets of the town. The neighbors speak of “ecological disaster” and look unbelieved towards the dam, while from the Guadiana Hydrographic Confederation defend that the operation was “of vital importance” to protect the future of the basin. The operation that changed everything. The Ministry for Ecological Transition, through the CHG, He started a plan To eradicate the invasive species Pseudorasbora Parva —An known as Chinese fish or Gobio de Boca Túpe -, present at the reservoir and in the Alcollarín River since 2010. Included in the Spanish catalog of invading exotic species and in the European regulation of worrying species for the EU, its control is a legal obligation to prevent its propagation. The plan included months of bearsques with specialized ships and, as a final phase, a “controlled” emptying of the dam to facilitate the capture of specimens. As reported by the CHGthe reservoir was 100 % of its capacity – 50 cubic hectometers, equivalent to 50,000 million liters – before starting the operation. The problem, like They have denounced neighbors and associations to the newspaper Extremadurais that the emptying caused the downstream release of thousands of copies, expanding the species towards the Ruecas and Guadiana rivers. The enemy in the waters of Alcollarín. The Pseudorasbora Parva He arrived in Europe around 1960 and has expanded to more than 30 countries, mainly by introductions linked to aquaculture. In Spain, it was first detected in the Ebro basin in 2002 and, since then, it has colonized sections of Catalonia, Andalusia, Madrid and Extremadura. In the case of Alcollarín, the species was detected in 2010 and, According to the mitecoits density in the reservoir had reached levels that made its complete eradication technically. Even so, the CHG He defended that it was urgent Reduce its population to avoid dispersion towards new channels, especially before the connection planned with the Orellana Canal, and ensure that the reservoir could be used for irrigation and recreational activities “in accordance with current legislation.” Of the catastrophe control. The contract, awarded in June 2024 to the engineering company and technical designs SAU for 787,861.99 euros (without taxes), included several phases of analysis of the pisco fauna, installation of metal containment barriers to avoid leaks, extraction of native species and elimination of invasors, and the controlled emptying of the reservoir. However, According to neighbors and groups such as the Fund for the Defense of Natural and Cultural Heritage of Extremadura (Fondenex)the procedure did not come out as planned. The Captured downstreams overflowed in the critical and “hundreds of thousands” phases of invading specimens escaped towards the wheel and the Guadiana. The drastic drop of the water level, added to the high temperatures, also caused the death of numerous native species, including the barbo, cataloged as vulnerable. The shores were filled with decomposition fish, aquatic birds abandoned the area and the local economy lost, suddenly, a key resource for nature tourism. Crossing accusations. The CHG argues that the operation was planned and executed under the supervision of a “multidisciplinary team of biologists, ambientologists and highly qualified engineers”, As the newspaper has detailedand recognize only a “punctual mortality of Barbos.” He affirms that most native specimens were rescued during previous beings. On the other hand, Fondenex has described in the same medium the action of “ecological nonsense” and accuses the CHG of “manifest negligence” for emptying the reservoir in the middle of summer, without providing urgent uses of water, such as fire extinguishing, and without assessing the impact on protected birds in the Zepa Llanos de Zorita. The group has requested environmental reports and does not rule out file a complaint with the courts. In addition, the neighbors have denounced that “the only positive aspects that a reservoir” have been charged and question the use of “massive and non -selective” methods prohibited by the Nature Conservation Law. Forecasts Once the presence of Pseudorasbora Parvathe CHG plans to reintroduce native species with the collaboration of the Board of Extremadura and maintain barriers and controls in future unwins. However, environmental groups warn that the ecological and tourist recovery of the reservoir will take years, and that the invading fish is already present in sections of the wheels and the Guadiana where it had not arrived before. An open question. In Alcollarín, official versions and citizen perceptions diverge radically: for administration, it is a necessary technical operation; For many neighbors, of an “environmental catastrophe” that has multiplied the problem. Beyond the specific case, the episode raises a dilemma that transcends Extremadura: what environmental and social cost are we willing to assume to stop a biological invasion when total eradication is practically impossible? Image | Chgguadiana and B. Schoenmakers Xataka | Water restrictions return in the northwest. It is the logical conclusion of a trend that comes from afar

The US government suspects that its general director is an ally of China

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Lip-bu Tan, the general director of Intel, is in a very compromised position. His background plays against him. Before arriving at the company currently leading Cadence Design Systems directedan American company specialized in the development of software and hardware tools for Design and verify integrated circuits. Nothing suspicious here. The problem is that just a month ago, in July, the US Department of Justice condemned her to pay A fine of more than 140 million dollars for selling commercial secrets to China. However, there is a fact that complicates this scenario even more: According to this US institutionCadence Design Systems delivered this critical information to the National University of Defense Technology, a Chinese teaching and research center that is supervised by the Chinese army. In fact, the US Department of Commerce has included this university in its “blacklist” because presumably is involved in the development of the super -taders used by the Chinese army to simulate nuclear explosions. Intel’s general director has just given explanations at the White House Lip Bu-Tan Intel leads since March 2025but there is a crucial fact that we should not overlook: although this conflict has taken it out of Cadence Design Systems directed this company between 2009 and 2021. And this was the period in which according to the US Department of Justice there were the violations of export control by which this company has recently been condemned. In addition, the panorama is further complicated for the Director General of Intel if we are in mind that it seems to have invested in some 600 Chinese companies, and some of them are presumably linked to the Chinese army. According to The Wall Street Journal, Donald Trump and Intel’s general director have had a “face to face” just a few hours ago This last accusation It has been formulated by the American senator Tom Cotton in a letter addressed to the Board of Directors of Intel. According to CottonLip-Bu has used its risk capital company Walden International to “get participations in more than 600 Chinese companies, including Startups of chips that They supply the Chinese army“It is a very serious accusation. So much, in fact, that Bu has been forced to go to the White House to give explanations. According to The Wall Street JournalDonald Trump and the general director of Intel have had a “face to face” just a few hours ago. This meeting has had a double purpose. On the one hand he has given Lip-Bu so the opportunity to explain and clarify his involvement in the sale of commercial secrets to China for which Cadence Design Systems has been convicted. And, in addition, presumably Donald Trump has questioned him about his personal commitment and that of Intel with a priority objective for the US: the achievement of total independence in the manufacture of semiconductors. Intel is the biggest manufacturer of American chips, and, therefore, it is the best US option when competing in the production of integrated circuits with the Taiwanese company TSMC and the South Korean Samsung. Image | Intel More information | The Wall Street Journal In Xataka | Intel’s plan in front of an unattainable TSMC: beat Samsung and consolidate as the second largest chips manufacturer

Starship already has its first client to go to Mars: the government of Italy

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The CEO of Spacex, Elon Musk, and the president of Italy, Giorgia Meloni, They became such good friends Last year that Musk had to Go out to deny That he had a romance with her. Then it was she who got into trouble with the rest of Europe for Consider Starlink as an option for Italian army communications. Finally, Italy will collaborate with Spacex differently. The first Starship ticket to Mars. The Italian Space Agency (ASI) has signed an unprecedented agreement with Spacex to transport scientific experiments developed by Italy in the first missions of the Gigantic Starship ship To Mars. The agreement, revealed by the President of the LI, Teodoro Valentewithout intervention by the European Space Agency, ensures a seat for Italy in the new space race towards Mars, this time with a strong commercial partner. Spacex president, Gwynne Shotwellhe described collaboration as a “unique agreement in its gender”, and promised that there would be others to come. The experiments. He ESPO He mentions, without going into details, three “Made in Italy” charges that will fly with Starship to Mars. The first is an experiment on the growth of plants that will investigate how to design future greenhouses and life support systems. The second and third are a weather station and a radiation sensor to thoroughly document the space climate during the interplanetary flight of six months to the red planet. Your goal is Improve the safety of future astronauts Let Mars fly. Six months of interplanetary trip. Starship is the highest and most powerful launch system in the world. Still in the development phase In Spacex facilities southeast Texasit consists of a propeller of more than 70 meters and a ship of more than 50 designed to fly to Mars and land on its surface after reposting in orbit. Elon Musk hopes to send The first five starship to Mars in 2026. Any delay would force flights to the next launch window, scheduled for 2028. All initial flights would be without crew until the system is already tested. With this agreement, Italy would have a preferential place in the first private rocket that aspires to reach Mars. Image | Spacex In Xataka | Elon Musk has revealed what Starship V3 will do: to “take all creatures” to Mars as an ark of Noah

It is so unusual that the government has created a commission for possible crises

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An exceptional cosmic carambola looms over Spain. Until Three solar eclipses will cross the Spanish territory In less than three years, starting with the most spectacular of all: the total solar eclipse of August 2026, which will obscure a third of the country. It is so unusual that the government has mobilized thirteen ministries to create a contingency commission. The eclipses trio. On August 12, 2026, a total solar eclipse will draw a 200 km line From the northwest to southwest Spainentering through Asturias and dating Castellón to cross the Balearic Islands just at sunset. The totality phase will last about two minutes on the central line. It will be the first eclipse of this type in the Peninsula since 1905. On August 2, 2027, the shadow of a total solar eclipse will enter through the Bay of Cádiz, crossing the strait and leaving Almeria. Ceuta, Tarifa, Cádiz Capital and part of Malaga will enjoy almost five minutes of dark in mid -morning. It will also be one of the longest eclipses of the century. On January 26, 2028, Spain will also live an annular solar eclipse. The “Fire Ring” will travel the country from Southwest to Northeast shortly before sunset. From Huelva, Sevilla and Córdoba to Valencia, Aragon and part of the Balearic Islands. The annularity will be around seven minutes and will be seen with the sun. Outside the strip it will be observed as partial. The government mobilizes. “The eclipses trio will be an unprecedented astronomical phenomenon, which can virtually only be seen in Spain between 2026 and 2028”, Minister Diana Morant affirmed. “In the Government we are already working to face the logistics and security challenges that this historical event will mean.” The magnitude of the event has led the Council of Ministers to Approve the creation of a special commission To organize and coordinate all actions. It will be formed by representatives of thirteen ministries. From science and transport to interior, defense or ecological transition, through the National Astronomical Observatory and the great astrophysical institutes of the country. The Secretary of State for Science, Juan Cruz Cigudosa, will preside over the Commission, which hopes to convene the first meeting at the end of August. The challenges of eclipses trio The chaotic experiences lived in the United States during the eclipses of 2017 and 2024 already put on the table the main open fronts: Congestions and accidents. The government expects an influx of hundreds of thousands or millions of people. The strip of totality of the eclipse of 2026 will only touch land in Greenland, Iceland and a much more populated and sunny country: Spain. The foreseeable result is the collapse of highways and secondary roads, with kilometer traffic jams that could block the passage to emergency vehicles. Oregon is the mirror in which nobody wants to look: he had Your overflowing access roads for three days in 2017. Infrastructure overload in emptied Spain. Many of the best observation points They are found in rural or coastal areas With limited resources. The sudden arrival of hundreds of thousands of people could cause the exhaustion of basic services such as drinking water, food, fuel or bathrooms. Mobile coverage could also saturate, leaving those same incommunicado people. The government plans to enable “minimum services” at the observation points. Extreme fire risk. Total solar eclipses will coincide with summer: drought, high temperatures and thousands of cars parked in fields and gutters. It is the perfect recipe for a disaster. The risk of forest fire will shoot. The precedent is, again, A fire in Oregon in 2017 which forced to evacuate hundreds of households in the middle of the totality zone a few days before the eclipse. Pest of false eclipses glasses. Looking directly at a solar eclipse without adequate protection can cause retinopathy, Irreversible damage in the retina. To see an eclipse it is crucial to wear approved glasses with ISO 12312-2. The problem is that with each eclipse the falsifications between vendors that make their August proliferate. In 2017, Amazon had to withdraw thousands of units and reimburse money from buyers. The first big photovoltaic blackout. A challenge of the 21st century. Spain has 25% of installed solar power. A total eclipse will cause an abrupt fall of the photovoltaic generation of up to 20 GW in less than an hour, followed by an equally fast climb when the sun reappears. Managing this undercut and the peak that follows will be a major challenge for Red Electrica, which will have to coordinate energy reserves to guarantee the stability of the system, as European operators did during the eclipse of 2015. Tourist saturation and its effects. Astronomical tourism is a blessing, but it can also be a problem. Airbnb talks about An 830% increase In rural accommodation searches by August 2026. prices fired in hotels and rentals, temporary gentrification and the possible displacement of the usual tourist are expected. In addition, there may be an impact on labor productivity: workers taking the day to see the phenomenon. The United States estimated losses of almost 700 million dollars during working hours. The unpredictable meteorology. The whole plan can jump through the air if clouds appear. A forecast of covered skies would cause massive displacement at the last minute to places with a better prognosis, multiplying chaos on roads. Astrophysico Alejandro Sánchez summed it up in The country: “Due to the unpredictable of the weather conditions, it is as if we did not know where the World Cup final will be celebrated until a few hours before.” The public cost and the environmental footprint. Deploying a device from this magnitude has a cost: traffic reinforcements, health, mass cleaning … to which the environmental footprint must be added: abandoned garbage, erosion of natural places and carbon emissions of millions of displacements. Problems that the contingency commission will have to value. A historical opportunity Despite the challenges, the Iberian trio of eclipses It will be a golden opportunity for science, education and … Read more

That the US government let him sell his H20 chip again in China

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If the US government maintains the prohibition of sale of avant -garde chips to artificial intelligence (AI) To China, Nvidia will enter this year 15,000 million dollars less. This is What he holds The company led by Jensen Huang, and is certainly the argument that this executive resorted during his meeting with Donald Trump last week to expose The complex scenario facing Nvidia. And it worked. May sell Your H20 GPU To his Chinese clients very soon. During the last fiscal year, which expired on January 26, 2025, China represented approximately 13% of total income of Nvidia with a figure of about 17,000 million dollars. In practice, the country governed by Xi Jinping is the third best client of this company only behind the US and Taiwan. However, SANCTIONS TO CHINA which is deploying the US government threatens Nvidia’s survival in this Asian country. Currently this company cannot sell its chips to its Chinese clients for the most advanced. Nvidia is determined to survive in the Chinese market at any price The reception that the Chinese clients of Nvidia initially gave to the GPU H20 was very good despite the fact that the capabilities of this chip are clearly lower than those of the other proposals for this company. In fact, initially the Department of Commerce allowed its sale in China because this integrated circuit met the restrictions it had imposed. And despite their limitations their sales in China grew by 50% quarter to quarter since it reached this market in mid -2024. Everything was complicated for Nvidia in the middle of last April. And is that the US Department of Commerce imposed new restrictions To the export to China of the H20 GPU, which in practice caused this chip to stop reaching the Chinese clients of this company. This news Nvidia’s shares sank 6% in the bag because I could no longer attend the commitments linked to the H20 GPU that it had acquired. NVIDIA has made the Department of Commerce review its regulation and allow you to sell the H20 GPU in China again Among the Chinese clients who had bought great amounts of this GPU, and who presumably planned to continue doing it, were Tencent, Alibaba or Bytedance. Finally, as we have anticipated in the holder and the first paragraph of this article, Nvidia has made the Department of Commerce review its regulation and allow you to sell the H20 GPU in China again. “The US government has assured us that licenses will be granted. We hope to start deliveries soon,” Pray a statement from Nvidia. However, this is not all. And in June the Taiwanese manufacturer of TSMC semiconductors, The Major on the Planetbegan the manufacture of a new GPU for NVIDIA with the latest generation Blackwell microarchitecture. Presumably this is the chip with which Nvidia aspires to maintain her domain in the Chinese market. Of course, before being able to send these GPU to China, the company led by Jensen Huang will have to receive the approval of the US Department of Commerce. What we know at the moment is that this chip for AI will be less capable than the H20 GPU, as is logical, and also that its price will move between $ 6,500 and $ 8,000. For domestic users it is a lot of money, but in the field of professional GPUs for AI it is a moderate price. In fact, the H20 GPU costs between $ 10,000 and $ 12,000, so it is evident that Nvidia wants to protect the competitiveness of this chip to prevent Huawei, Moore Threads and other Chinese companies and other Chinese companies to snatch a juicy portion of this market. Image | Nvidia More information | Reuters In Xataka | The US gives Huawei a great opportunity: to get its new chip for AI with the Nvidia market in China

Spain finally runs out of the Broadcom chips factory. This US company has broken with the government

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At the beginning of July 2023 Charlie Kawwas, the president of the Broadcom subsidiary specialized in the manufacture of semiconductors, announced that your company had reached an agreement with the Government of Spain to build An advanced integrated circuit factory on Spanish soil. Its budget touched the 1,000 million dollars (about 850 million euros), and although it never became completed its location for several months a filtration anticipated that this plant would stay in Zaragoza. According to Kawwas, these facilities were going to be specialized in Substrate manufacturing And they would help this American company reinforce its position in the semiconductor production market. For Spain, the construction of this factory was great news because it would place the country on the European map of The production of advanced substrates. And, in addition, presumably would generate high qualification jobs and develop the technological ecosystem of the area in which it finally be installed. Unfortunately this project will not come to fruition. Broadcom has back According to the Europa Press agencyBroadcom will finally not build its factory in Spain. The negotiation that this company maintained and the Spanish government has been broken, apparently. At the moment it has not transcended the reason why this project will not prosper, but according to Europa Press Donald Trump’s return To the White House has been able to exercise as a death sentence in a context in which the commercial relationship between the US and Europe goes through a very complicated moment. “That collapsed by Trump. It was a very interesting operation and in the end he did not curdle,” In fact, the arrival of Trump ended another project in which the Spanish government intended to invest 400 million euros to establish a company joint with an American company. Its purpose was also to build a chips manufacturing plant. “That collapsed by Trump. It was a very interesting operation and in the end it did not curdle. Right now there is a feeling that US companies are very restricted when investing in Europe, ” has declared One of the sources of Europa Press. It makes sense. The administration led by Trump pursues reinforce your local semiconductor industryso it is perfectly credible to be zancadilleando the plans of US companies that plan to invest outside the US. On the other hand, the construction of a avant -garde semiconductor manufacturing plant usually costs Between 20,000 and 30,000 million eurosso it is evident that the factory that Broadcom was going to be tuned in Spain was not going to be at all toe. Even so, it is a pity that this project has been frustrated. Image | Chris Hsia More information | Europa Press In Xataka | Chips manufacturers are coming from pearls to attract them. These are your reasons to come

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