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Yahoo
7 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Huawei releases new tool to get Chinese firms around crushing HBM export blacklist — new UCM software claims up to 22x throughput gain and 90% latency reduction for traditional cache hierarchies in AI workloads
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Huawei is seeking to fire a powerful salvo against the West in the U.S.-China tech access wars. The tech titan has created a new software tool called the Unified Cache Manager (UCM) that seeks to speed up LLM training and inference without the use of HBM (high-bandwidth memory), a hot commodity that China lacks easy access to due to U.S. export restrictions. The South China Morning Post reports that Huawei unveiled the UCM tool on Tuesday, as part of its presentation at the 2025 Financial AI Reasoning Application Landing and Development Forum. The new software spreads AI data across HBM, standard DRAM, and SSDs according to the latency characteristics of each memory type and the latency requirements of different AI applications. Specifically, introducing a hierarchical structure for key-value caching, an important AI data structure in inference, maximizes speed specifically according to the system's available resources. UCM has seen lengthy real-world tests before today's announcement. Zhou Yuefeng, VP over Huawei's data storage products, announced that UCM was tested in operations at China UnionPay, a major Chinese bank. Real-world applications where the software was trialed include "customer voice analysis, marketing planning, and office assistance," according to Gizmochina. Huawei reports an up to 90% reduction in latency and a 22-fold increase in throughput with UCM for AI inference on systems with traditional caching and storage technologies. The announcement of UCM could be a major boon for China's AI market, a sector that has been seeking ways to either obtain or function without HBM. HBM (high-bandwidth memory) is a stacked, high-speed memory type that is critical in AI training and inference, enabling high throughput and low latency to AI chips like those in Nvidia's HPC servers. HBM is also incredibly hard to obtain in China. HBM chips are almost exclusively produced by SK Hynix and Samsung in South Korea and Micron in the U.S., and the United States has been working to hamper China's attempts to purchase or produce its own HBM. Restricting China's HBM access has been a key part of the U.S.'s strategy in the "Chip War" trade conflict between the two nations, spurred on by both the Biden and Trump administrations. The UCM announcement comes in a week when China's moves toward tech independence and away from Western hardware are ramping up. A recent report claims that China's federal government is even directing domestic companies to refrain from purchasing Nvidia's H20 chips. Nvidia's H20 is a China-exclusive stripped-down variant of Nvidia's standard AI chips, specially made for the country. The reported directive to avoid the H20 is another blow for Nvidia, which has been pressuring the U.S. government to allow it to sell the H20 to China for months. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang only received the green light to sell H20s again last month, after months of petitioning and a $1 million dinner at Mar-a-Lago. The United States seemed willing to use reliance on Nvidia chips as a way to slow China's own tech progression, but now that China has put an official tarnish on Nvidia H20 chips and Huawei is seeking ways to avoid reliance on HBM, these plans may be in peril going forward. Follow Tom's Hardware on Google News to get our up-to-date news, analysis, and reviews in your feeds. Make sure to click the Follow button.
Malaysian Reserve
12-08-2025
- Business
- Malaysian Reserve
StandardC Unveils New ApplyC™ and MonitorC™ Modules, Redefining How Financial Institutions Manage Onboarding and Compliance
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 12, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — StandardC today introduces the next generation of its dynamic onboarding and due diligence modules, ApplyC™ and MonitorC™, expanding the capabilities of its industry-first Unified Customer Management (UCM) platform. These modules join the proven VerifyC™ virtual site visit solution to form a comprehensive, modular suite that streamlines underwriting, automates compliance, and reimagines risk management for financial institutions. 'After working with our customers, we realized our earlier versions of these products simply didn't meet the standard we hold ourselves to. They fell short of what modern institutions need,' said Robert Baron, CXO of StandardC. 'Our engineers rolled up their sleeves and rebuilt the product from the ground up. What we created isn't just better software. It's what banking software should have been all along. That's the relentless pursuit of excellence. That's StandardC.' Modular Tools, Unified Power The UCM platform now consists of three tightly integrated modules: ApplyC™ transforms onboarding and underwriting with customizable questionnaires, dynamic workflows, automated document capture, and entity and individual screening. Institutions can deploy new programs in days, configure workflows without code, and make faster, more consistent decisions through an intuitive decisioning dashboard. MonitorC™ is StandardC's AI-powered engine for compliance screening and oversight. It enables institutions to instantly search and continuously monitor thousands of global sources for adverse media, sanctions, arrests, corporate records, beneficial ownership, and more. Compliance teams can configure automated alerts, generate enhanced due diligence cases, and track every action in an immutable, audit-ready log. VerifyC™ is the industry's leading virtual site inspection and business verification solution. It combines GPS-tagged photo capture, configurable questionnaires, and automated reporting to remotely validate physical assets and operations. Compliance, risk, and underwriting teams can perform virtual verifications anywhere, anytime, without the cost, delay, or complexity of in-person visits. Together, the modules give financial institutions a flexible, scalable framework for managing customer risk, all without the overhead of disconnected tools or bloated legacy systems. Built for Scale, Priced for Access 'Our pay-as-you-grow model allows institutions to pay only for what they use. By consolidating tasks typically handled by multiple systems, ApplyC™, MonitorC™, and VerifyC™ deliver immediate, measurable return on investment. In the case of VerifyC™, our customers have reported 80%-90% cost savings compared to in-person business and asset verifications. All financial institutions, whether community banks, credit unions, or merchant processors, deserve powerful technology once reserved for large enterprises,' said Robert Mann, CEO. About StandardC StandardC empowers community-focused financial institutions by providing advanced screening, monitoring, and onboarding technology typically accessible only to the largest enterprises. Our intuitive, modular platform simplifies complex and burdensome tasks into efficient, human-focused processes. Built for next-day deployment and scalable flexibility, our pay-as-you-grow model ensures affordability without compromise. Driven by our mission to level the technology playing field, we help institutions onboard smarter, innovate faster, and support greater financial inclusion and prosperity. Learn more at:
South China Morning Post
12-08-2025
- Business
- South China Morning Post
Tech war: Huawei unveils algorithm that could cut China's reliance on foreign memory chips
Huawei Technologies has unveiled a software tool designed to accelerate inference in large artificial intelligence models, an advancement that could help China reduce its reliance on expensive high-bandwidth memory (HBM) chips. Unified Cache Manager (UCM) is an algorithm that allocates data according to varying latency requirements across different types of memories – including ultra-fast HBM, standard dynamic random access memory and solid-state drive – thereby enhancing inference efficiency, according to Huawei executives at the Financial AI Reasoning Application Landing and Development Forum in Shanghai on Tuesday. Zhou Yuefeng, vice-president and head of Huawei's data storage product line, said UCM demonstrated its effectiveness during tests, reducing inference latency by up to 90 per cent and increasing system throughput as much as 22-fold. The move exemplifies how Chinese tech firms are leveraging software improvements to compensate for limited access to advanced hardware. Earlier this year, Chinese start-up DeepSeek captured global attention by developing powerful AI models with constrained chip resources. Huawei plans to open-source UCM in September, first in its online developer community and later to the broader industry. The initiative could help China lessen its dependence on foreign-made HBM chips, a market mostly controlled by South Korea's SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics, as well as the US supplier Micron Technology. A high-bandwidth memory chip from SK Hynix. Photo: Reuters HBM is a stacked, high-speed, low-latency memory that provides substantial data throughput to AI chips, enabling optimal performance. The global HBM market is projected to nearly double in revenue this year, reaching US$34 billion, and is expected to hit US$98 billion by 2030, largely driven by the AI boom, according to consulting firm Yole Group.
IOL News
18-07-2025
- Politics
- IOL News
Activist Mthunzi Luthuli announces #CyrilMustFall protests in Pretoria
Mthunzi Luthuli of the Preogressive Civics Congress said permission has been granted for the #CyrilMustFall march set to hit the streets of Pretoria on Friday. Image: Jonisayi Maromo/IOL Different civic rights groups have announced the #CyrilMustFall protests which are set to hit the streets of Pretoria on the International Nelson Mandela Day, on Friday. Mthunzi Luthuli from the Progressive Civics Congress told reporters in Midrand that marchers will walk from Marabastad to the Union Buildings, demanding an immediate resignation of President Cyril Ramaphosa. 'This initiative of this march is an initiative of Defend SA but it is a march supported by UCM, which stands for United Civics Movement, an umbrella federation for civic movements. My organisation Progressive Civics Congress is part of UCM. We are making this announcement on behalf of Defend SA and UCM,' he said. On Friday (today) the symbolic Nelson Mandela Day, thousands of determined South Africans from across all provinces will gather in Pretoria for the #CyrilMustFall march to the Union Buildings. This national protest is a bold declaration by the people against the ongoing decay of leadership, governance and accountability under President Cyril Ramaphosa.' 'Cyril Ramaphosa's rise to the Union Buildings has been characterised by corruption, from the very beginning, starting with his irregular election as ANC president at the Nasrec conference in 2017. The process was bankrolled by the controversial CR17 campaign fund, the details of which remain sealed and hidden from public scrutiny,' he said. Video Player is loading. Play Video Play Unmute Current Time 0:00 / Duration -:- Loaded : 0% Stream Type LIVE Seek to live, currently behind live LIVE Remaining Time - 0:00 This is a modal window. Beginning of dialog window. Escape will cancel and close the window. 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Text Color White Black Red Green Blue Yellow Magenta Cyan Transparency Opaque Semi-Transparent Background Color Black White Red Green Blue Yellow Magenta Cyan Transparency Opaque Semi-Transparent Transparent Window Color Black White Red Green Blue Yellow Magenta Cyan Transparency Transparent Semi-Transparent Opaque Font Size 50% 75% 100% 125% 150% 175% 200% 300% 400% Text Edge Style None Raised Depressed Uniform Dropshadow Font Family Proportional Sans-Serif Monospace Sans-Serif Proportional Serif Monospace Serif Casual Script Small Caps Reset restore all settings to the default values Done Close Modal Dialog End of dialog window. Next Stay Close ✕ Luthuli said while at the helm of South Africa, Ramaphosa has failed to account for the Phala Phala scandal. He insisted that South Africa is in crisis mode, with unemployment at an all-time high. 'Illegal immigration is out of control, and service delivery has collapsed. The recent explosive revelations by KwaZulu-Natal Police Commissioner Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi have only confirmed what South Africans already know, that this administration is corrupt to the core and that our institutions have been captured by political and private business interests at the expense of public safety, justice and national pride. He said the protesters will be demanding an 'immediate resignation' from Ramaphosa, and firing and prosecution of corrupt police officers and politicians. On Wednesday, IOL reported that the uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party has formally delivered a letter of demand to President Ramaphosa, calling on him to resign from office by 9am on Friday. In the letter seen by IOL, among other things, the MK party tells Ramaphosa that the decision to appoint Professor Cachalia as Acting Minister of Police is in contravention of the Constitution, because the academic is not a member of Cabinet or the National Assembly. MK party national spokesperson, Nhlamulo Ndhlela, said Ramaphosa must resign in honour of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, the founding commander-in-chief of uMkhonto weSizwe - the military wing. 'Should Ramaphosa fail to heed this call, the MK party will pursue a range of lawful and peaceful actions, including constitutional litigation, a motion of no confidence in Parliament and rolling mass action nationwide,' said Ndlela. 'These steps reflect the will of the people, who, through democratic means, delivered a decisive electoral verdict against the African National Congress under Ramaphosa's leadership.' He said, despite the 'clear message' from the electorate, the will of the people has been undermined by opportunistic political alliances. IOL News
BBC News
24-06-2025
- General
- BBC News
University College Isle of Man drops three degree courses
Three undergraduate degrees at the Isle of Man's only university will no longer be provided from September, the education minister has confirmed. Daphne Caine MHK said University College Isle of Man (UCM), which offers about 40 courses, would no longer be providing the courses in History and Heritage, Creative Practice or Health and Social said the decision followed a review of application numbers, progression and achievement rates in previous years, and was due to "viability" and student BBC has contacted UCM for comment. MHK Julie Edge said the decision, which was made at Easter, had been communicated to students after the UCAS application period closed for the year. 'Fairest way' Questioning what the cost saving was, Lawrie Hooper said it was "difficult to see a retrenchment of higher education on the island".He argued students would go elsewhere and it could cost the department more as they were now going to be eligible for grants and maintenance awards that they may not have been if studying at UCM. Caine told the House of Keys the island's higher education provider offered a variety of other courses and the admissions team could support students through the process. She said her department was undertaking a "holistic review" of student awards to meet the demand in the "fairest way possible".She also told members a review of the support for students going to university was said more students were now "opting to earn as they learn" while undertaking courses or distance-learning, and there was an increase in those choosing to study at review was looking at current earning thresholds, the amount of fees covered, and grants available, as well as "how we can divide the cake to best support all students on various household incomes", she said.A report on the issues was set to go before Tynwald by the autumn, with revised student awards to come into effect by September 2026, she added. Read more stories from the Isle of Man on the BBC, watch BBC North West Tonight on BBC iPlayer and follow BBC Isle of Man on Facebook and X.
