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WSJ Tech News Briefing

TNB Tech Minute: Nvidia to Bolster Taiwan Partnerships

WSJ Tech News Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

News, Tech News

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2025

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Plus: China’s Xiaomi plans $7 billion investment in chip design. And 23andMe will live on after $256 million Regeneron buyout. Victoria Craig hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Here's the truth about AI. AI is only as powerful as the platform it's built into.

0:05.7

ServiceNow puts AI to work for people across your business, removing friction and frustration

0:11.1

for your employees, supercharging productivity for your developers, providing intelligent

0:16.5

tools for your service agents to make customers happier, all built into a single platform you can

0:21.9

use right now. That's why the world works with ServiceNow. Visit ServiceNow.com

0:27.8

slash UK slash AI for people. Here's your T&B Tech Minute for Monday, May 19th. I'm Victoria

0:35.2

Craig for the Wall Street Journal. As tariffs threatened to upend

0:38.9

global supply chains, U.S. chip giant, NVIDIA, is leaning into local partnerships with Foxcon and

0:45.5

TSM to build Taiwan's first AI supercomputer. Invitya said Foxcon will provide the AI infrastructure,

0:52.9

while TSMC researchers will use that system to advance R&D.

0:58.0

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Wong described Taiwan as a nexus for AI advancement and said his company is planning to build a new hub there.

1:06.8

Invidia also said it's opening its server platform to allow other companies to build semi-custom

1:11.9

AI infrastructure, and it announced expanded partnerships with ACER and ASUS to make new

1:18.0

high-performance desktop supercomputers.

1:21.3

Elsewhere, Chinese tech giant, Zhaomi, is working to make itself more self-sufficient

1:25.6

in the semiconductor industry as U.S.-China trade

1:28.8

tensions simmer. In the social media post today, the company's founder and CEO said it would

1:33.7

invest $7 billion in chip design over the next decade. Xiaomi is also expected to introduce

1:39.9

a 3-nanometer mobile chip this week, which Chinese state TV declared as a breakthrough in

1:45.7

Chinese chip design. And finally, 23 and Me will live on inside biotech company Regeneron,

1:52.0

which has agreed to buy the beleaguered DNA testing company out of bankruptcy. The $256 million

1:57.8

price tag is a steep fall from the $6 billion peak valuation that 23 and Me achieved in 2021.

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