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QpiAI Open-Sources Its Quantum SDK Bengaluru's QpiAI Open-Sources Its Quantum SDK

QpiAI, described as a full-stack quantum computing company based in Bengaluru, India, has released the QpiAI Quantum SDK as open-source software, available at github.com/qpiai/quantum-sdk. The toolkit gives developers, researchers, and startups a way to build and run quantum algorithms and connect their workflows to QpiAI's 8-qubit and 25-qubit quantum computers through QpiAI-QCloud. The SDK…

India To Ban Non-Compliant CCTV Camera Sales Hikvision and Dahua to Face Market Ban in India Over Chinese Chip Concerns

Effective tomorrow, India will ban the sale of CCTV cameras that don’t conform to the Essential Requirements introduced by MeitY in April 2024. Major players, Hikvision and Dahua, have failed to meet the Standardisation Testing and Quality Certification standard. The government is reportedly not certifying cameras that run on Chinese-made chips. 

The broader goal appears to be to…

India To Launch First Indigenous Semiconductor Chip India to Launch First Locally Made Semiconductor Chip in 2025

India is ready to roll out its first homegrown semiconductor chip in 2025, Union Minister for Electronics and IT, Ashwini Vaishnaw, confirmed during the Confederation of Indian Industry’s (CII) Annual Business Summit. The development was made under a dedicated initiative launched in 2022. The chip will fall within the 28 to 90 nanometre (nm) range.

The minister stated, “Today, six…

US Eases Chip Export Rules Under Trump Administration New Doors Open for Indian AI Startups as US Eases Chip Export Rules

Thanks to a major policy change in the United States, Indian startups and researchers may soon find it easier to access cutting-edge AI hardware. The US government has officially scrapped the controversial AI diffusion rule introduced under the Biden administration. The rule was intended to limit China’s access to advanced AI chips, but the restrictions impacted friendly nations like India,…

Neuralink, CAN-PRIME Study Neuralink Launches Brain Chip Trials in Canada for Paralysis

Neuralink has taken an important step in advancing its innovative brain-computer interface (BCI) technology by launching its first international clinical trial in Canada. The trial Called the CAN-PRIME Study has received approval from Health Canada followed by the success of Neuralink's PRIME Study in the United States. It aims to test the safety and basic…

China-US Tech War China Says Special Licenses Will be Required to Export Germanium and Gallium

According to trade experts, China has taken this decision in retaliation to USA’s strategies of export ban of key semiconductor technologies and equipment

Amid the ongoing geopolitical scuffle with the US, China has now undertaken some strict export control measures. As per media reports, China is curbing exports of two key materials…

Cerebras Systems Unveils the Industry’s First Trillion Transistor Chip World's largest chip with 1.2 trillion transistors unveiled

Cerebras Systems, a US based startup, launched largest chip integrating more than 1.2 trillion transistors and sized at 46,225 square millimeters. The new Cerebras Wafer Scale Engine (WSE) chip is optimized for AI and is 56.7 times larger than the largest graphics processing unit that measures 815 square millimetres and contains 21.1 billion transistors. The new…