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The US hardened their restrictions for Nvidia chips not to reach China. So they are sweeping the black market

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A few days ago Nvidia got what It seemed impossible: That the US government allowed you to sell your H20 GPU very soon to Chinese clients. It was an important turn in the Trump administration policy, which since April had raised his restrictions. Despite the hardness of the sanctions, the plan has had lagoons, according to an investigation of the Financial Times. What happened. The Financial Times has accessed sales contracts, to presentations of companies already involved in the industry and has drawn a conclusion: three months after Trump harden the export control, chips worth $ 1 billion were sent to China. In context, it is a huge figure, if one takes into account that Nvidia entered 17,000 million last year. The process began in May according to the Financial Times, when Chinese distributors began marketing GPU on which restrictions on data centers that work with Chinese Laboratories of AI weigh. The investigation points to something that the US already suspected: Many chips enter from Southeast Asia They are not any chips. The investigation reveals that Chinese AI companies are managing to acquire the GPU B200 of Nvidia, a beast that It already has a successorbut that is a candy to train models. And it promised multiply by four The performance of the desired H100 in MLPERF 4.1. The investigation also mentions the sale of other chips on which export controls weigh, such as the aforementioned GPU H100 and its successor, the H200. The price of a Rack Of eight B200 ready to use is approximately $ 489,000, and has dropped in price since they arrived in China in May. The difference with the sale that is authorized? An extra 50%. Publication in social networks announcing the sale of ASUS H200 racks. Image: Financial Times Nvidia’s position. The company has maintained a defense position to remain in China these months, and it is that this market supposed 13% of its global income. Jensen Huang has been praising the Chinese models of AI At a complicated moment for the company, in need of strengthening its complicity among Chinese companies while just selling chips. In full Dilemma for the US to sell or not sellHuang has placed the power of Huawei’s solutions at the height of the H200. A path full of difficulties. As Nvidia told Financial Times, buying chips clandestine is not something that allows expected yields. Mounting a data center with the GPUs is not just a process of installing parts, but about giving them service and support, something that the company does not supply to chips sold outside authorized channels. According to an operator of a data center, the export control does not prevent NVIDIA chips from reaching China, and what it does is create inefficiencies and “huge profits for intermediaries that assume risks.” Even so, a distributor recognized that “there is no shortage.” The effect of relaxation with H20. With the announcement of the permission to the marketing of the H20 to China, the sales of the B200 and other chips marketed in the black market have fallen, according to several distributors. The reasons are not clear, but buying Nvidia guarantees the aforementioned support as well as a more competitive price. Despite this, there are Chinese distributors announcing stock of the B300, which is not yet manufactured in mass. Image | Nvidia and Flickr In Xataka | The US machinery to win the “war” of AI to China is already underway. And it goes faster than expected

If the question is how long will the teles of our living room grow, the market speaks very clearly: until we have

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The size of televisions carries decades growing at great pace. And how It has happened with smartphones From the first Samsung Galaxy Note, on the sector always plans the question of until when. As in mobiles there are comfort limits in handling and portability, the teles face space limitations in the salons. The market speaks clearly. Based on GFK data, TCL shared a reality from the television market last year: The size of the teles grows 1.2 “a year in Europe. With an average that has gone from 32 “from 2010 to approximately 50” in 2024 (Samsung told us in 2023 that the average size was already in 55 “and that in 2025 the standard could already be 65”). Thus samsung money earns: the secret is on the iPhone The consultant Counterpoint Research He has shared data from the first quarter of 2025 compared to previous years, and the growth has shot: the distribution of televisions of 75 “or more has grown 79 % over the same period of 2024, and the income 59 %. The trend is clear for 15 years. The teles grow 1.2 “a year. Source: GFK The latter indicates a drop in the average price in the giant inches: income does not grow to the rhythm of sales. Also, according to DSCC dataconsultant that now belongs to Counterpoint, in the second quarter of 2024, the televisions of more than 80 “grew 29% compared to the previous year. Samsung saw it clear. In 2018, the company commissioned An Ipsos study where they got interesting conclusions. According to the company, the space of the Spanish halls is not the big problem to which it had signed up before: “87 % of households could have an 82 television”, since that is the percentage of households that are more than 1.6 meters away to the TV, a minimum viewing distance recommended for this size of televisions, according to the ITU-R “. The responses of the population surveyed also left many doubts: 70% of those who had bought televisions contemplated the possibility of buying a larger one, in a context in which 70% of households did not exceed 50 “. The biggest obstacles to buying large -inch televisions were space (50 %of users), the price (39 %) and the viewing distance (16 %). The most interesting is in the first two points. Space is the great impediment, but according to the company there was ignorance about what size is adequate. And the price issue: 39 % did not buy larger sizes due to the pocket cost. Something that we will see that the market is solving. The teles go down, and go down. In this sense, if something teaches us recent technological history, is that Almost everything is more expensive, but the smart TV are given: And much of the fault is the “mother crystal”. Another great responsible is the current strategy of manufacturers and developers of operating systems for televisions, which They have turned the teles into television. The extreme case of this is Tellya free television that the user pays with advertising present on a second screen. In 2017, Juergen Boyny, Global Director of GFK consumption electronics, He told us They calculated that “there will be a screen size limit for most consumers between 75 and 77 inches, and even so, that size will remain as a very specific niche.” Today we know that at least the second is not so. And according to Counterpoint, in the European Union we spend average 536 euros on a TV. Faced with the 20,000 euros of a 77 “TV of less than a decade ago, which we mentioned in Boyny’s article, today there are models for about 500 euros. And the United States indicates where the road is going: Walmart already has 85 “televisions for less than $ 600. The size of the stay has always conditioned what we thought was the optimal size of the TV. But analysts came to say that televisions of 75 “would be niche, and reality has shown not China smiles. TCL and Hisense are the main Chinese brands of televisions. According to 2024 last quarter quarterthe first surpassed LG in the distribution of premium televisions, and Hins is already very close. In the general market, Samsung has already exceeded him, being 16 % quota, TCL with 14 %, Hisense with 12 % and LG with 10 %. Xiaomi follows a certain distance with 5 %. In the context of the annual growth of size and explosion of the giant inches, China also wins the bet of its brands itself. As you remember HDTVTEST: “TCL is one of the most aggressive brands when betting on large screens, having launched in recent years several MINI-LED and LCD TV models of 98 inches.” And we already talk about numerous 110 “models and 115 “. The strategy to crush competition. Both brands do not stop presenting giant and innovative televisionsand above all, to reduce them and democratize them. They have already had the 98 “TCL C805, Minilad, less than 1,700 euros. A model that launched a couple of years ago at 5,000 euros. The growing domain of TCL and Hisense of the Premium market responds to the growing domain of the Minned Tves (those that market) in front of the OLED, which dominate from Korea LG and Samsung. In 2024 there was sorpasso of technology: MINILED surpassed Oled In sales. And it was so after years of dominance and the entrance of Samsung in Oleds with the Samsung S95B In 2022. Server has been enjoying an OLED TV from 2020 by having prioritized image quality. The following will be Minnedfor the balance between size and quality. The perfect cocktail, with a brake. We have a panel size that has not stopped growing for decade and a half, sales fired in giant inches and prices that break up at the rhythms of vertigo, Even in toe technology. To this is added, as Samsung pointed out, users who want larger sizes … Read more

A giant is ready to get into the market of chips manufacturing machines: LG Electronics

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The HBM memories market (High Bandwidth Memory) that work side by side with the GPUs for artificial intelligence (IA) Three companies lead it clearly: Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron Technology. Interestingly, memory chips are The South Korean economy engine Trade dependent. And Samsung and Sk Hynix are Companies that support this industry In this Asian country. In fact, these two South Korean companies compete with each other to master the lucrative HBM memory chips. AND They do not supply when it comes to manufacturing as many integrated circuits as their customers demand. The most important of all of them is, as we can intuit, Nvidia. The export of semiconductors in South Korea increases, but its chips stocks 33.7% fell in April of 2024 compared to the same period of 2023 according to the National Statistics Office. In any case, another South Korean company is ready to enter the market for integrated HBM memory circuits, although it will not compete with SK Hynix and Samsung. LG is preparing a unique machine to produce HBM memories Manufacturing integrated VAGUARD HBM circuits is not simple. The processes involved in the production of these chips are complex, and in them very advanced technologies are involved. SK Hynix, Samsung and Micron are manufacturing on a large scale, although with different success12 -layer HBM3E memories. The two South Korean firms will produce large -scale HBM4 chips during the second semester of 2025, and Micron will do so in 2026. However, CXMT (Changxin Memory Technologies), one of the Chinese companies specialized in the production of memoirs, will launch Your first HBM3E chips in 2027. The main quality of this equipment will be its ability to allow the stack of integrated circuits in a much more efficient way China has several memories manufacturers Important, but they currently do not have solutions capable of competing with the best of SK Hynix or Micron. This circumstance reminds us of how complex it is to manufacture latest generation HBM chips. LG Electronics is going to enter this marketbut you will not compete from you to you with memory chips manufacturers. The opposite; aspires to be your customers. Koo Kwang-Mo, the president of this company, has confirmed That its strategy is to participate in the hardware industry for AI, but it will make it marketing its own chips manufacturing equipment. In fact, LG is developing a machine that will be specifically designed to produce avant -garde HBM memories. According to this company, the main quality of this equipment will be its ability to allow the stack of integrated circuits in a much more efficient way than with the technologies currently available. In theory, the innovation in which LG engineers are working will contribute to the tuning of HBM memories of more capacity and with a lower heat dissipation index. LG plans go to make their HBM memories production team in 2028. The main manufacturers of these machines are the American company Applied Materials and the Dutch Besi, so these are The companies with which LG will compete If finally its memory semiconductor production machine comes to fruition. If so, it is likely that Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron are interested in their team, although it is also possible to apply materials or kiss forward to LG. In fact, SK Hynix and Samsung plan to introduce this technology this year. More information | Economic Seoul In Xataka | Chinese memory chips manufacturers are a nightmare for the US and South Korea. There is a lot at play

Nothing’s CEO wants to conquer the mobile market with crazy designs. He has told us his very complex plan to achieve it

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Carl Pei is one of the CEO that gives off the most in the technology industry. You saw a cowboy and basic shirt, they warn me that it is shy and, after a few minutes of interview, we end up smiling, commenting that “the vibes” are the future, and remembering the old days of Cyanogenmod out of formalities. Those who have been in El Cotarro to know Carl from that Old OnePlus who only sold his phones by invitation. With Nothing, the approach is different. A London company with the focus on design and with a clear slogan: “Make Tech Fun Again”. Looking up Nothing began with a Phone (1) that attacked the mid -range. He continued with a Phone (2) that took a specifications and, in 2025, attacks the market with a mobile of 799 euros with a high range. I can’t help wanting to know why. Carl explains that for Nothing, both the Phone (1) like him Phone (2) They were flagships. It sounds like a statement Marketinianbut it is not: “For a company, a flagship is the best mobile you can do.” For the first time, they believe they are at an engineering point in which they can compete with the best in the market, a point where they are finally ready. Sailing a high range is risky, and throwing it being oriented to a concrete niche, it is even more. Nothing is not in volume, it is not desperate to launch product and points directly to “the most creative users.” All this sounds very good, but it is worth asking if A company can be profitable and sustainable living as “creative users”. “We are focused on new generations of consumption. We focus on people who are interested in technology, design and creativity. Our consumer is much younger than the average consumer, it is around 26 years.” Does the strategy work? Yes. Carl tells me that they have folded the volume of business, exceeding one billion dollars in the accumulated sales. He knows that they have been focusing on software for years, but they intend to double software investment to be even more attractive. They also have an important investment behind, in which investors take a direct role in the decisions made by the company. “Sometimes it is uncomfortable, because they give their opinion in front of the rest of the members of our table. But I think it is really important to find ways to keep us connected with this base, especially when the company grows. It is difficult to hear uncomfortable truths when you have that type of structure, we always know what people want us.” The present Carl Pei during the presentation of Nothing Phone (3) and the Nothing Earphone (1). Image | Xataka With Nothing Phone (3) comes the whopping seven years of security updates and five software. Maybe it’s time for Get out of stopping a mobile per year if mobiles are getting older and more. Or maybe not. “On average, people renew phone every three years. So there will always be someone thinking about the following. But we are also seeing a trend of people who want to keep their device for a longer time. That is why we want to give even longer support.” The phone also lands with an integration of quite discreet. Essential Search Essential Space Minor translation functions Is enough to compete, taking into account that There are already those who integrate the AI Even in the most basic apps of the system (telephone, keyboard, camera …)? Carl is clear that Nothing’s approach is cautious, because they see “a lot of hype” in the market. It drops that, even if they have launched these functions, “the Roadmap is long, there will be updates and updates.” But, beyond promising that in the future AI will be more complete, it is not afraid to admit that it agrees. “This is almost like a hygiene factor, right? We have to take care of that basic part, but that is not what excites us most. What really excites us is how we apply this new technology to redefine the way people use products, especially in the software part. But yes, that basic work is necessary. You have to do it. The market is doing it and I think we can do much more.” Image | Xataka To close the block, I ask Carl for something practically inevitable: How are geopolitical tensions between the United States and China livingand if your supply chain is being affected. The Nothing Phone box (3) shows a clear “Made in China”, so there is nothing to hide. Here he tells us that most of their products are manufactured in India, and some of them in China. Apart from this, he affirms that they are in the process to start producing in other parts of the world. It does not seem too worried, and the reason is simple. “Being a startup, we can be quite agile and reagents, whatever happens.” The future of smartphone Nothing Phone (3). Image | Xataka A question that I like to ask the main responsible for Tech companies is how they look in the future. And being, honest, the answers are usually little concrete. It is something completely normal: neither should get wet with compromised statements or, really, it is easy to predict with where today’s technology is going. But Carl is a Jugónand it is clear that the future of the smartphone goes through a single app capable of controlling everything. That agriculture that we have spent so much speaking throughout 2025. The key is that, When everything is … what will be the reason to decide between one device or another? It clarifies that it is still distant, and that no one would buy a phone without apps today. The key will be on the path that is to achieve it, a path to combine and melt all software and hardware. “I think Essential Search is a good example. … Read more

I have tried the Glyph Matrix of Nothing Phone (3). And now I want it on all market phones

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I’ve been using Nothing Phone (3) For approximately two weeks. It is the most expensive nothing in the company’s history, but also the best they have ever made. The English startup claims to be ready to compete with the bestwithout giving up the characteristic that best defines them: design. After two years betting on the glyph interface at the rear, A LED pattern that was illuminated in a personalized way when receiving notificationsin this third generation he dies with a good end. Matrix Glyph. What is this. As you can see in the superior image, the Nothing Phone (3) has a small upper screen composed of a total of 489 micro-leds. It is the first important step, the LEDs stop functioning as an indicative pattern and become part of a major whole: a circular mini panel. Although the new Glyph Matrix is ​​automatically activated (I will now tell you when and how), there is a small button in the rear that allows you to activate it in situations where you do not have to be on. What is it for. Last year, this interface only served as a notification pattern. Now it also indicates them, but it goes much further. Allows you to configure, one by one, the system apps and how they will show notifications NOTIFY OF LOST CALLS Works as volume indicator Indicates the chamber timer back It serves as … flashlight And it has … games Nothing mixes in the games section the games with useful functions. This is the list namely. Clock Bottle game Battery percentage Chronometer Mirror (literally is a mirror of what the main camera sees) Solar clock Paper and scissors The white circuit you see on the right side of the phone is the button to activate the interface. Just press the button that I just talked to you to activate the screen, and it is necessary to leave clusted to start working. Infigurable at the end. I have not been surprised only the amount of functions that it has as an indicator of useful functions, but the degree of customization that allows. This section opens the door to create rules. Extremely specific rules. Imagine what you want notifications of WhatsApp WhatsApp notifications of one person (or number) Who arrive, just, when that person writes a keyword The filter that allows is spectacular. We can add personalized icons for each of the apps or contacts and even use a photograph to make it and show it in the screw (I do not recommend it much, the pixels are pixels and it is not distinguished very well). Why is it important. Nothing’s proposal, beyond curiosity and extravagance, is important. Shows that the concept of notifications LED can remain alive, and in a better way than ever Integrates a second screen that barely consumes energy Open the doors to the developers use the nothing SDK to bring the functions of their apps specifically At a time when innovating seems almost impossible, Nothing has evolved a system that was simply good, towards a more complex and real utility solution. Image | Nothing In Xataka | I had to look twice the price of the cmf phone 2 pro to believe it. Nothing’s submarket has broken the mid -range

no other great technology is having a stock market as good as she

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Meta has just achieved something unheard of: dethrone Nvidia as the most successful technological technology of the year on the stock market. It is still far in stock market capitalization, but it grows above it in what we have been for the year. Its +22% surpasses the rest of the great technological, also Microsoft, and confirms the excellent stock market moment in recent times. Why is it important. Less than two years ago, Wall Street was punishing a goal for its obsession with the Metaversosomething that vanished at the same speed at which Chatgpt spread: the future actually passed by. Your expense in Reality labs Nor did it help. Today it is rewarding its transformation towards the practice. In detail. The change of course began in 2023, with what Zuckerberg called “The year of efficiency“ Now goal is running an AI strategy that combines the best of three worlds: Mass consumption products. Ray-Ban MetaCalls, Goal AI. Business infrastructure. Talent capture. In these last weeks we have understood the magnitude of point 3 with The signing of Openai leading researchersincluding Creators of O1 and O3. We also know that it plans to get 29,000 million dollars to invest in data centers. Between the lines. Investors have caught something that seemed unlikely: goal has made their traditional advertising income grow while in parallel builds their future in AI. Your R&D spending will reach the 65,000 million dollarsbut their margins continue to expand. Goal is demonstrating that it is possible to reinvent itself without losing the main business. Meanwhile, Google fights as can against the arrival of Chatgpt and Apple continues to look for its site in the AI ​​race. Goal has defined its identity: being the company that democratizes AI with a Llm Powerful but open source (with nuances) … … and make an incursion into Wearable that seemed innocent but is being tremendously successful. And now what. The next catalyst will be to verify how its smart glasses business evolves. And that of AI attendees. Above all, to what extent they change the business. Meta, first of all, it is demonstrating what was not taken for granted for all great technology: survival capacity in the transition to AI. And that is using recognition in the parquet. Outstanding image | Mariia Shalabaieva in Unspash In Xataka | The Xiaomi ai Glasses are much more than the finish line because they are not just a product. They are a platform

The oil market is so broken that Spain already prepares its great weapon to fix it: remove oil via decree

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They do not run easy times for the olive oil market. Or rather, they run paradoxical times. In recent years, farmers had to deal with bad harvests that raised prices and They punished consumption. Now they enjoy a good campaign that will overcome the 1.4 million tonsbut things are not much better. The prices they charge They have fallen so much that they have left them in a committed situation, with a Great hole In your income. Given that scenario, the government has decided to move and endow A ‘Nuclear button’ That, if necessary, it will allow you to stabilize the market in the 2025-2026 campaign. As? Removing oil if the harvest is very abundant. What happened? That the Ministry of Agriculture wants to anticipate a possible imbalance in the extra virgin olive oil sector. In view of The good prospects Of the 2024-2025 campaign and the fear that this abundance of fruit ends up impacting the Spanish market, the government has launched its administrative machinery to have a tool that allows it to re-may be rebuilt. As? Basically removing oil from the oil mills. Remove olive oil? Exact. The community regulations allow states to activate a “marketing standard” for the olive oil sector that “improves and stabilizes” its market. That general framework moved to Spain with the Royal Decree 84/2021which in turn contemplates that “when the conditions justify it” it is withdrawn as a result of the markets, reserving it for the next campaign or even dedicating it to a different use to that of food. The process, yes, is somewhat more complex and requires that the autonomies and organizations representing the sector be consulted before. And that is precisely what the Ministry of Agriculture has just done: open A public consultation so that those who want to comment on their order for the 2025/2026 campaign can do so. The observations can be sent until next Wednesday. And why do you do it? For the data that arrive from the olive sector itself. Although the crops of 2022/2023 and 2023/2024 were rather Parcas (666,000 and 854,500 tons, respectively), which contributed to the price of olive oil to be triggered in the stores, the current panorama is quite different. It is estimated that the current campaign, which started in October and will end in September, will leave More than 1.4 million of tons. In March the Minister of the Branch, Luis Planas, even He spoke of 1.42 million. There are who is even More optimistic and talks about major figures for the next campaign. And how do prices respond? If in 2023 and 2024, coinciding with the bad harvests, the price of olive oil came to be around nine euros per kilo in the case of the Aove, now, with a generous campaign, that value has been reduced to 3.59 euros. And so It is a problem For farmers. Juan Luis Ávila, from COAG, warned In May that while the consumer pays about six euros for the liter of oil, the producers receive less than 3.5 euros for the AVE, which would be below the cost of production in the olive groves. What is that fall? The million dollar question. Especially since farmers ensure that market prices are not those that should in current circumstances. “The data is overwhelming and alarming, since there is an unjustified lag of more than two euros per kilo between the real price at the origin of olive oil and the value it should have,” He warned in May Miguel Padilla, of the Coordinator of Agriculture and Livestock Organizations, COAG. To reinforce its position, the collective even presented A report which estimated that the Aove should quote 5.55-6.14 euros per kilo in the current campaign, far from what the olivicultores perceive. “Speculation Campa at ease”, regrets UPA General Secretary, Cristóbal Cano, who believes that there should be “a different pricaries in the market, according to the law of supply and demand.” What will the new standard be for? With its new order for the 2025-2026 campaign, the government wants to be prepared to “stabilize” the market with a clear strategy: withdrawing product. From the Ministry they advance, yes, that will only happen “if high production estimates are found that can generate imbalances.” I would be The first time That the Planas department activates the mandatory oil withdrawal mechanism to rebalance the market. What does the sector think? The EFE agency has spoken with several organizations, such as ASAJA, COAG, UPA, UDU or agro-food cooperatives, which the initiative see with good entrance. “It is absolutely essential to have all the prepared machinery. Until now we had not needed, but before a predictable good harvest we have seen the convenience of activating it, as simple as possible, to avoid the sinking of prices,” comment In DCoop. Not everyone is equally optimistic. In Murcia there are producers who They are suspicious that the oil withdrawal from the market to control prices is the effective solution. Images | Government of Castilla-La Mancha (Flickr) and Deoleo In Xataka | More and more giants get into the Andalusian field and in the olive oil industry. The last: Pepsico

China dominates the hardware market for cryptocurrency. Now you will do it from the US

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The US is a critical market for Chinese criptodiviss mining hardware manufacturers. In fact, it is The most important on the planet. And it is for several reasons. The most obvious is that the country led by Donald Trump brings together a good part of the operators that They are dedicated to cryptocurrency because it offers them the ideal conditions to carry out this activity. Many of them have been installed in Texas, North Dakota, Georgia and other states of this country because electricity in them has a very competitive price. In addition, some investment funds and American venture capital companies finance operators that are dedicated to mining. In fact, its support has acquired such size that companies such as Riot Platforms or Digital Marathon, which buy a large amount of hardware for mine, traded in the stock market. And we cannot ignore that in 2021 the Chinese government prohibited mining and transactions With cryptocurrencies, which forced Chinese operators to move to a country that offered them more favorable conditions. Tariffs are restructuring the mining hardware market The prohibition of the Chinese mining government and transactions with cryptocurrency in mid -2021 triggered an exodus of the operators. Many of them moved to the US, but this does not mean that no one is undermining in China. In fact, this last country still represents approximately 20% of Hashrate Bitcoin Global, so it only exceeds the US. What happens is that currently in China this activity is carried out in a clandestine way. Chinese companies Bitmain, Canaan and Microbt produce more than 90% of the mining equipment sold on the planet An important note before moving forward: the Hashrate or the rate of hash It measures the calculation power used to undermine cryptocurrencies. The higher this value, the greater the calculation capacity of a system or an infrastructure. Whatever it is important that we keep in mind that China is not only the place of origin of many operators that are dedicated to cryptodivine mining; A good part of the companies that are dedicated to the manufacture of mining hardware are Chinese. In fact, The three that sell the most come from China. Bitmain, Canaan and Microbt produce more than 90% of mining equipment sold on the planet. And all three are making new facilities in the US with one purpose: dodge tariffs that the government led by Donald Trump has deployed so as not to lose competitiveness in the US market. These are the three most relevant Chinese companies, but, According to Reutersmany more companies from this Asian country are being installed in the US with the aim of continuing to compete with guarantees in this market. However, this does not mean that Chinese hardware manufacturers for mining are abandoning China. They are not doing it. Its plan is to supply the US market thanks to its factories installed in the US and compete in the other markets on the planet with the production of its plants in China. “Although more than 30% of Bitcoin’s global mining occurs in North America, More than 90% of the hardware comes from Chinawhich represents a great imbalance between demand and supply “, SANJAY GUPTA holdsStrategy Director of the American Hardware manufacturer for Auradine Mining. This is the heart of this matter. All probability this imbalance will be corrected, but mining hardware will continue to be mostly in the hands of Chinese companies. Although they reside in the US. Image | David McBee More information | Reuters In Xataka | Bitcoin was supposed to save us from decentralization. A third is already in the hands of a few great actors

Byd is breaking the car market with very low prices. Now it has the entire industry against

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China has entered a new price war in its automobile market. Many months after Byd and Tesla gave the battle by lowering their prices to try to get out of their competition, the Chinese company has relieved the power it has in their hands to impact their rivals. And along the way, criticism has been taken from analysts, their competitors and even the Chinese government itself. An already known play. In April 2024Byd and Tesla played hand in a race to see who could reduce the prices of their cars. Then, Elon Musk’s company looked from you to your sales from BYD but for a few months the Chinese company has stayed at the top of the table. Then we knew that the strategy could be taken ahead to some of its competitors. Byd played with its ability to sell at volume to put cheaper and attractive cars on the market while Tesla had a wide margin of benefits To press your rivals. Returning to the streets. Now it has been byd, alone, the one that has put all the meat on the grill. And the industry upside down. The company has lowered prices very aggressively, to the point that the Byd Qin Plus DM-Ia plug -in hybrid sedan, has dropped its price by more than 40% in the last two years. These discounts are applied for less than a month But they are the continuation of sales that were already applied in April. Some of its models They have reduced their price by 34% In these last sales but, above all, it is surprising that a car like the Byd Seagullwhich is already the cheapest car on the market, now is available 20% cheaper. A dangerous trend. These BYD pricing sales have been pushing the rest of the industry in the last year. The data reflects them Bloomberg In a powerful graphic: of the 30 best -selling cars in China, only one has increased its price. It doesn’t matter if you look at Chinese manufacturers or foreigners, only Tesla Model and is now more expensive (update through) than two years ago. This, according to its analysts, is a problem with the industry. They ensure that if the customer does not have the assurance that prices are maintained, it is very possible that they delay their purchase. That could be wearing part of current car sales. The second perspective is that of manufacturers. Reuters He already pointed out in 2023 that much of the automobile manufacturers in China were not profitable. According to his accounts, Byd did earn net money with each car sold but his great rivals like Xpeng or Nio lost between $ 10,000 and $ 20,000 per unit sold. Rain of criticism. Byd’s last movement seems to have tired the rivals. China Chongqing Auto Forum has been a reflection of the tensions that exist in the automobile industry. Collect in Carnewschina That the attacks between competitors have flown throughout the talk. While from ByD they insisted again on the idea that They are suffering coordinated defamatory attacksfrom Geely they have assured that their competitor behaves like a hypocrite. The specialized media in the Chinese industry argues that Victor Yang, vice president of Geely and in charge of public relations and communication snapped at his rival a hard Isn’t This just a case of the Thief Crying Thief? What could be translated by something like “the thief is believed that all are of his condition.” It was not the only poisoned dart of the event, they point out in Carnewschina. Among those responsible for Huawei and Xiaomi there were also cross statements according to their electric vehicles and only from Chery it seems that the waters were tempered with a more politically correct message, noting that the intense competition made the market better. “An Evergrande” Byd’s rivals attacks have not been a novelty either. Only a few days ago that from Great Wall Motors, another of the big Chinese companies, they said that the car market lived in a bubble that could already be defined as “an evergrande” referring to the collapse of its largest construction company. Without giving names, Wei Jianjun, head of Great Wall Motors, pointed out that The industry situation was not healthy And that vehicle automatures were being too high, with the ultimate goal of makeup the results. Lei Yunfei, responsible for BYD’s public relations, soon answered Weiboreferring the criticisms that the company was receiving. And the state answers. After pulling and loosening between Great Wall Motors and Byd, institutions called the main manufacturers to attend the problem of automatrications. Little or nothing is known about what was treated there but Reuters He showed this movement was a call of attention to Byd. Days after that meeting, People’s Daily (means of communication that is one of the spokesmen of the Chinese Communist Party) collected in an article Related to new energy car sales (electric and plug -in hybrids) Calls to flee “price wars.” It specified that both the Chinese Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM) and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) had made appeals not to fall into this type of practices because they pointed out that “recently the industry has seen a decrease in profitability, largely due to the increase in competition marked by disorderly price wars.” Photo | Byd In Xataka | Byd has decided to sink the price of electric cars. It is a strategy that is already affecting the Byd value itself

There is a whole adult book market. And they have their own ration of controversies, demands and plagiarism

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Did you know that it exists A whole coloring book market for adults? Well, that is just the upper part of the typical iceberg meme. Below there is a whole network of interest, millionaire contracts, low blows, Influencers come to more and editorial stamps that go completely unnoticed by the mainstream Cultural, but that move a lot of money. And this is the last controversy that has shaken the scene of this sprimer books coloring 20 semi -out. The panorama. Adult books arose as a global trend in the mid -2010, driven by the rise of products with anti -stress albotade and mindfulness (Do you remember the meditation apps, the Gratitude notebooksthe bombing of crafts and the cross point …?). In this context, many activities that until then had remained in the children’s sector of the market were reoriented. The puzzles, the games and the coloring books began to be tolerable for adults. And everyone dusted their cariocas boxes. Shift of the elderly. However, there were differences, of course: these coloring books adopted themes that had no childhood: mandalas, natural places, abstract art and, of course, the inevitable displays of NSFW illustrations. Quickly A scene emerged Around these books: Tiktokers and Youtubers that colored and gave advice to those who wanted to try at home. And of course, artists emerged who turned to create books with very diverse styles: Camilla d’Erico manga to the Kerby Rosanes dark fantasy. An entire industry. The subgenre facilitated. Among all this phenomenon highlighted a style with force: the ‘bold easy’, or books of extreme simplicity and that Anyone can face Without any experience in coloring. Topics voluntarily naif (although Not always), thick strokes, simple shapes, for pages that can literally color in five minutes. Of course, you can always raise the difficulty and give a complexity to these drawings with some skillbut the starting point was clear: everyone can color. Cocowyo enter. For 2019, the initial boom of adult books He had fadedor at least it did not reach those figures of 12 million books sold 2015. But this new trend of the Bold Easy He arrived to resurrect herand new authors and authors enshrined in this style: Mia Birchwood, Jade Summer, Vivi Tinta or Bobbie Goods. And, above all, Cocowy In Goodreadsfor example, it has 416 different books. Anonymous but successful. Cocowyo artists remain in anonymity despite the popularity of their social networks (more than 700,000 followers on Instagramfor example), and above all, despite having signed A millionaire contract with Penguin Random House in September last year. Of course, that firm multiplied its ubiquity (and more being a study without public names that can be fattened, license and derive indefinitely) and made Cocowyo almost the only ambassador to the line Bold Easy. Trajinar with the algorithm. And this is where the controversies begin, whose roots are traced until the times in which Cocowyo self -published. According to his most staunch critics, the study was an expert in detecting fashions and trends in the coloring book section and replied with very little dissimulation. For example, as Bookriot saidhis ‘Food, Drink & Sweets‘was very similar to ‘Food / snacks’ by Megan Mileyeven in the design and style of the cover. Nothing denouncing, but the similarities were very striking: Cocowyo also imitated the format and size of the book … and the term ‘blod & easy’, which transformed into ‘bold-easesy’. Suspicions of AI. It may be the appearance with just a few months apart from A couple of books with a death cuqui riding on the clouds, how did Bookriot also point out? It can be, but there did not end the controversy. Cocowyo’s neatness made them creditors of suspicions of use of AI for their illustrationssomething that has never been demonstrated. The opposition of the community He multiplied When Cocowyo recorded (not the use, but making them a registered trademark for legal purposes) a series of very generic terms and that affected the material that the competition was producing: “Bold and Easy Coloring Books”, “Cozy Spaces” and “Simple Art”, among many others. Goliath against David. The pressure of the other authors supplied its effect, already end of last year, Cocowyo abandoned its purpose of roying these terms. But complaints have not ceased: authors and fans have continued to protest because they consider that Cocowyo is not behaving as a little author competing against others legitimately. You are using the advantages that it provides to belong to a large multinational publishing house (armies of lawyers, tactics to bend the algorithm in social networks, burst the market with much cheaper books than those of its rivals) to present unfair competition. And that has nothing of Cozy nor of bold. Header | Cocowyo In Xataka | Can you read too many books a month? For many, there is a number from which it is already unsustainable

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