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An exclusive TechCrunch tour of Amazon's Trainium chip lab reveals how AWS is training Claude for Anthropic and now holds an $138B commitment from OpenAI.

Jensen Huang confirmed at GTC 2026 that NVIDIA has export licenses for multiple Chinese customers and is restarting H200 production, with 82,000 GPUs ready to ship after nearly a year of zero deliveries.

Meta published a four-generation MTIA silicon roadmap delivering chips every six months through 2027, with compute scaling 25x from MTIA 300 to MTIA 500.

China announced up to $70 billion in semiconductor and AI subsidies during the Two Sessions - one of the largest government chip programs in history, aimed at full self-sufficiency as US export controls tighten.

The Commerce Department has drafted regulations requiring government approval for all AI chip exports worldwide - not just to China - giving Washington unprecedented gatekeeper power over global AI development.

Broadcom's Q1 2026 earnings show AI chip revenue up 106% year-over-year, with Anthropic, OpenAI, and Meta driving demand toward a $100 billion custom silicon forecast for 2027.

The Trump administration is considering limiting Chinese companies to 75,000 Nvidia H200 GPUs each - less than half what Alibaba and ByteDance want - while zero chips have shipped despite months of export approvals.

China's National People's Congress opens this week with a 15th Five-Year Plan that puts $70 billion in semiconductor subsidies and AI-plus manufacturing at the center of its tech race with the West.

NVIDIA will unveil a new inference processor built on Groq's LPU architecture at GTC 2026, with OpenAI as its first major customer allocating 3 GW of dedicated capacity.

Huawei debuts its Atlas 950 SuperPoD at MWC Barcelona - 8,192 NPUs delivering 8 ExaFLOPS - marking its first overseas showcase of the AI supercomputer that directly targets Nvidia's cluster dominance.

DeepSeek will release V4, a natively multimodal trillion-parameter model with a 1M token context window, in the first week of March - optimized for Huawei Ascend chips, not Nvidia.

Huawei Ascend 910B specs, benchmarks, and real-world performance. 64GB HBM2e, ~1,200 GB/s bandwidth, ~600 TFLOPS FP16 - the chip that trained DeepSeek.