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Hi, I am MaomaoMom and welcome to MaomaoMom Kitchen, where I share my favorite recipes using basic ingredients with step-by-step instructions. I am a mom, wife, scientist and food lover. I came to Canada in the late ’80s to join my husband who was studying at UBC. A few years later, we left the beautiful city of Vancouver and moved to Ottawa after we both finished our graduate studies.
I started helping out in the kitchen at a young age, and learned from my grandma how to make noodles and Chinese buns. I always enjoyed cooking but only seriously took it on after my son Maomao (a popular Chinese nickname, just like “sweetie” in English) was born. He was a fussy eater when he was little, and I made a great deal of efforts to try and create different recipes. Now at 16 and 6 feet tall, he eats very well and is conscious of making healthier food choices. My cooking has won his heart that he has little craving for junk food. In today’s fast-paced life, people have less time to prepare wholesome and tasty dishes. As a scientist in Chemistry, I bring lab techniques and skills into my kitchen. I’ve made a mission to bring together the healthy eating and the traditional Chinese cuisine by using high quality ingredients, simplifying procedures, and choosing healthy foods.
In 2006, I started my cooking blog MaomaoMom Kitchen and soon it became very popular among overseas Chinese. Within 5 years, the total views of my blog reached 20 million. In March 2011, I started my own website maomaomom.ca so that my friends and relatives in China can read my blog. In June 2011, my first cookbook in Chinese was published and distributed through my church as a means to raise fund. Over the years, my friends and colleagues have tried many of my dishes, and I always receive wonderful compliments. My colleagues have suggested that I write the recipes in both languages, so the non-Chinese readers can make these wonderful dishes. However, as busy as I am, I haven’t put in extra effort to make it happen.
The past Saturday was my birthday. Weekends are always busy for me and this one was no exception. We bought fresh meat and vegetables at a nearby farm, did laundry and house cleaning. We then went to a sushi restaurant for lunch to celebrate that I am getting one year younger! For dinner I made Chinese flat bread with pulled pork, topped with chopped fresh cilantro. Maomao said to me: “It’s so yummy! Mom, I want to learn how to make this dish.” That night my husband and I watched the movie “Julie & Julia”.
Meryl Streep was amazing! I was inspired by both characters, their passion for food and their love and dedication to their loved ones. Julie Powell made a decision on her 30th birthday to cook all 524 recipes in Child’s cookbook in 365 days. I’ve decided that I will blog my recipes in both English and Chinese from now on. This not only allows my son and his future family to read these recipes and pass our loved dishes through generations, but also reaches a wider audience so that more food loving families are able to enjoy them.
All original recipes are from different sources such as cooking books and websites, however, all are tested in MaomaoMom Kitchen and instructions are from my own experiences, DO NOT copy and post the contents and photos from MaomaoMom Kitchen to other websites and media.
Last but not least, I love hearing your cooking experience and stories. So please ask questions, leave comments and share your thoughts.
MaomaoMom, July, 2012
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By Chavi Mehta, Max A. Cherney and Stephen Nellis
Nov 21 (Reuters) – Chip designer Nvidia said on Tuesday it expects
a steep drop in fourth-quarter sales in China – a key revenue generator – in the wake of new U.S.
rules, but forecast overall revenue above Wall Street targets
as supply-chain issues ease.
Nvidia, whose graphics processing units (GPUs) dominate the market for AI, is set to take a hit from the vastly expanded
U.S. export controls on what the company can sell to China.
Sales of the affected chips made up nearly a quarter of Nvidia’s datacenter sales in the
past few quarters.
“Export controls will have a negative effect on our China business, and we do not have good visibility into the magnitude of that impact even over the long term,”
Chief Financial Officer Colette Kress said during a conference call with analysts.
Kress also confirmed reports that the chip giant is developing newly compliant chips for China but those won’t materially contribute to
fourth- quarter revenue.
Nvidia stock, which has climbed more than 240% this year, slipped
1.5% in volatile after-hours trading.
The company also faces risks in Israel, whose military is embroiled in a conflict in Gaza and where Nvidia’s networking business is headquartered.
Sales from that unit, whose gear is used in AI supercomputers, rose 155%
from a year ago. Kress said the networking business exceeds a $10 billion annualized
run rate.
The chipmaker said a significant portion of its employees based in Israel have been called up to
active military duty, and if the war continues, their
absence could hurt its future operations.
Nvidia forecast adjusted gross margins of 75.5% for the fourth quarter,
above analyst estimates of 72.64%, according to LSEG data.
But the company’s China troubles could make those margins hard to maintain.
“The company suggested the hit to sales from restrictions would be offset by other regions; however, there were scant details on this. It also begs the question, with margins so extraordinarily high currently, will these offsetting markets support such high margins?” Capital.com analyst Kyle
Rodda said.
Still, Nvidia said it expects supply for its AI chips to
improve as it prepays to make sure it gets factory priority.
It outsources manufacturing to contract chipmakers like TSMC .
Demand for AI servers has grown rapidly. Research firm TrendForce estimates shipments to rise about 40% this year, thanks to their use in powering
products like OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
BOOMING PROFITS
Nvidia forecast current-quarter revenue of $20 billion, plus or minus 2%.
Analysts polled by LSEG expect revenue of $17.86 billion.
Adjusted third-quarter revenue tripled to $18.12 billion, ahead of an average estimate of $16.18
billion. Data center revenue jumped 41% to $14.51 billion, while
gaming revenue rose 15% to $2.86 billion.
Excluding items, the company earned $4.02 per
share, beating estimates of $3.37 a share.
In response to the newest round of U.S. export rules,
Nvidia has already come up with three new products for the Chinese market.
But those China-focused chips could consume vital research
resources at Nvidia and could end up banned just like its first round of China market chips,
said Jacob Bourne, analyst at Insider Intelligence.
“Nvidia’s move to develop specialized chips for the Chinese market, while a strategic response to export restrictions, faces challenges,” Bourne said.
U.S. officials unveiled a new batch of restrictions in October
and said they will continue to update them as needed.
Last week, the company also introduced a new
AI chip called the H200, which will offer superior performance to Nvidia’s current top H100 processor.
The H200 includes additional high-bandwidth memory,
one of the most expensive parts of the chip, which determines
how much data it can crunch quickly.
Rival Advanced Micro Devices had earlier touted the quantity of high-bandwidth memory on one of
its competing AI chips.
Major tech companies including Alphabet’s Google, Amazon.com and most recently Microsoft have
announced AI chips produced by in-house design teams in addition to purchasing Nvidia’s hardware
for their own data centers.
Building custom chips can cost hundreds of millions of dollars
and take years, but gives the major cloud companies the ability to include features tied specifically to their AI
needs.
Microsoft unveiled a duo of custom-designed computing chips earlier
this month, one of which can run large language models.
Chinese tech company Huawei’s AI chip is also gaining traction from local firms as U.S.
pressure makes it hard to access Nvidia chips.
(Reporting by Chavi Mehta in Bengaluru and Max A. Cherney in San Francisco Additional reporting by Stephen Nellis
in San Francisco Editing by Arun Koyyur, Sayantani Ghosh,
Matthew Lewis & Shri Navaratnam)
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