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The administration of US President Donald Trump has lifted restrictions on exports of chip design software to China, as Washington and Beijing work to dial down hostilities as part of a recent trade agreement.
All three leading chip design software companies – Synopsys, Cadence and Siemens –...
I'm having a hard time believing Sam's claim about Meta offering $100 million signing bonuses.
No one would turn that down. That’d be like me saying I offered the owner of SemiWiki $100 million to shut down the site and he didn’t take it. (Maybe?)
It will use the AMD Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme processor. Both current-gen Xbox and PlayStation consoles use AMD Zen 2.
ARM has taken over the mobile/tablet/phone market. Cloud providers like AWS are coming out with their own ARM-based servers.
Qualcomm is getting into Windows PCs/laptops.
Intel...
1. ARM based
2. 3nm (I don't think SMIC can do 3nm. it's either TSMC or Samsung, right?)
"It will take some comfort in the fact that just this week the two companies signed a multi-year agreement for Xiaomi phones to keep using Qualcomm’s flagship Snapdragon 8-series chips, but there can’t be...
Key Points
- Xiaomi is set to unveil on Thursday the Xring O1 processor designed for its flagship smartphones.
- Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon told CNBC that the company will continue to supply Xiaomi with chips.
- Xiaomi will invest at least 50 billion yuan ($6.9 billion) over the next 10 years...
OpenAI has agreed to buy Windsurf, an artificial intelligence-assisted coding tool formerly known as Codeium, for about $3 billion, according to people familiar with the matter, marking the ChatGPT maker’s largest acquisition to date.
The deal has not yet closed, said the people, who spoke on...
Feb 18 (Reuters) - Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI has introduced Grok-3, the latest iteration of its chatbot, as it looks to compete with Chinese AI firm DeepSeek, Microsoft-backed OpenAI, and Alphabet's Google. Grok-3 debut comes at a critical moment in the AI arms race, just...
"Intel recruited Hotard just over a year ago from Hewlett Packard"
Are the rats jumping ship, as they said?
(Bloomberg) -- Nokia Oyj will replace Chief Executive Officer Pekka Lundmark with Intel Corp.’s recently appointed head of artificial intelligence Justin Hotard in a surprise...
"TSMC is manufacturing OpenAI's AI chip using its advanced 3-nanometer process technology. The chip features a commonly used systolic array architecture with high-bandwidth memory (HBM) - also used by Nvidia for its chips - and extensive networking capabilities, sources said."
Would this impact...
"Pat Gelsinger, who recently quit as CEO of chip giant Intel, has said he has made an investment in compute-in-memory startup Fractile Ltd"
He didn't quit. Intel kick him out.
"Gelsinger said that inference of the latest AI models is bottlenecked by hardware"
Not sure if the bottleneck is the...
The Stargate Project is a new company which intends to invest $500 billion over the next four years building new AI infrastructure for OpenAI in the United States. We will begin deploying $100 billion immediately. This infrastructure will secure American leadership in AI, create hundreds of...
You can Google the news, and many outlets point to SCMP as their source.
Aren’t we just playing whack-a-mole? I understand the intent is to slow down China because, once the Chinese master the process, they can mass-produce and sell at cost to gain market share with government backing. However...
Besides Linus, the Intel Arch B580 received pretty good reviews on price and performance from nearly every hardware reviewer. You see, Intel can get 'lucky' too, like Nvidia, if it's run by a competent board and leadership.
