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AMD to acquire Finnish startup Silo AI for $665 million to step up in AI race AMD will acquire Finnish AI startup Silo AI for $665 million to boost AI chip capabilities and improve AMD-powered models and software. AMD Senior VP Vamsi Boppana noted it "unlocks significant business." Silo AI's customers include Philips, Rolls-R...
10 Jul, 2024, 06.48 PM ISTNvidia hitting $3 trillion propels Jensen Huang’s wealth above Michael Dell’s On Friday, Huang reached another milestone, surpassing personal computer pioneer Michael Dell to become the world's 13th-richest person with a net worth of $106.1 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. His wealth has increased by mo...
08 Jun, 2024, 05.55 PM ISTEuropean stocks at record on tech and ECB bets The pan-European STOXX 600 benchmark rose by 0.7%, with the technology subindex surging 2.6%, driven by significant gains from Wall Street's tech giants.
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TSMC says it has discussed moving fabs out of Taiwan, but such a move impossible TSMC, a Taiwanese chipmaker, discussed moving its fabrication plants off the island amid tensions with China, but deemed it impossible due to 80-90% production capacity in Taiwan.
04 Jun, 2024, 12.14 PM ISTArm aims to capture 50% of PC market in five years, CEO says Demand for use of Arm's technology in personal computers got a boost after Microsoft unveiled ambitious plans last month to launch a new breed of PCs with artificial intelligence features to compete with Alphabet and Apple.
03 Jun, 2024, 05.56 PM ISTMore women made the list of top-paid CEOs in 2023, but their numbers are still small compared to men Of the 341 CEOs in the AP's 2024 compensation survey, 25 are women, the highest number since the survey began in 2011. Lisa Su of AMD is the highest-paid female CEO, earning $30.3 million. The median pay for female CEOs increased by 21% to $17.6 mil...
03 Jun, 2024, 05.14 PM ISTAMD launches new AI chips to take on leader Nvidia Advanced Micro Devices unveiled the MI325X accelerator at Computex, aiming to challenge Nvidia with new AI chips by 2026.
03 Jun, 2024, 09.55 AM ISTUS is slowing AI chip exports to Middle East by Nvidia, AMD In October, the Commerce Department added much of the Middle East to chip export restrictions that originally focused on China and a handful of other foreign adversaries. That meant companies needed a special US government license to ship cutting-ed...
31 May, 2024, 08.53 AM ISTNvidia adds over $200 billion in market value in post-earnings rally Nvidia's shares surged over 9% on Thursday, adding $218 billion in market value, the second-largest single-day gain in history on Wall Street, fueled by a bumper revenue forecast reinforcing investor confidence in the AI-driven chip demand boom.
24 May, 2024, 08.50 AM ISTNvidia's blowout forecast adds fresh fuel to AI rally; stock jumps 9% Nvidia rallied 9% on Thursday as its bumper revenue forecast reinforced investor confidence in the AI-driven boom in chip demand, lifting shares across the semiconductor sector.
23 May, 2024, 07.46 PM ISTNvidia shares rise as blowout revenue forecast cements AI lead Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, Nvidia's contract chipmaker, said in April it expects to more than double its advanced packaging capacity this year.
23 May, 2024, 03.53 PM ISTArm shares fall 6% as tepid forecast takes shine off AI optimism Shares of Arm Holdings fell 6% on Thursday as the chip designer's downbeat annual revenue forecast cooled some of the enthusiasm around the stock following its AI-powered jump in recent months.
09 May, 2024, 08.19 PM ISTPeople+ai partners with 24 tech organisations to enable open cloud compute infra AMD, Oracle, and various technology providers collaborate to address the increasing compute requirements. The partnership aims to enhance the compute ecosystem in India through the creation of a network of providers for accessible and tailored compu...
07 May, 2024, 08.42 PM ISTGoogle unveils Arm-based data center processor, new AI chip Google's tensor processing units (TPUs) are one of the few viable alternatives to the advanced AI chips made by Nvidia, though developers can only access them through Google's Cloud Platform and not buy them directly.
09 Apr, 2024, 05.48 PM ISTAMD hits US roadblock in selling AI chip tailored for China AMD tried to gain a go-ahead from the U.S. Commerce Department to sell the AI processor to China. The chip has lower performance than what AMD sells outside of China, and was designed to meet U.S. export restrictions, the report added, citing people...
05 Mar, 2024, 09.11 AM ISTNearly all wealth gained by the world’s rich this year comes from AI Among the 500 wealthiest individuals, 30 attribute at least some of their fortune to companies that are tracked by the Bloomberg Global Artificial Intelligence Index. Those holdings have boosted their net worth by a combined $124 billion so far this...
18 Feb, 2024, 11.09 AM ISTHedge funds went on stock-buying spree ahead of job data: Morgan Stanley Global hedge funds went on a stock-buying spree just ahead of a U.S. jobs report that drove the S&P 500 and Nasdaq to their highest closing levels since early 2022, a Morgan Stanley's prime brokerage note showed.
11 Dec, 2023, 08.08 PM ISTIndian design centres touch every aspect of our chip design globally: AMD CTO Mark Papermaster The Santa Clara-based semiconductor company on Tuesday inaugurated a new AMD Technostar campus, its largest data centre globally, in Bengaluru. Even with the company’s new AI chip, which has a complex design with over 100 billion transistors, India ...
29 Nov, 2023, 06.01 AM ISTAMD rises as AI chip sales prediction bodes well for rivalry with Nvidia The optimism over AI chip sales helped ease worries about a disappointing fourth-quarter forecast and put it on course for market value gains of about $10 billion, based on the $104 share price.
01 Nov, 2023, 08.29 PM ISTAMD largest design centre Technostar shaping up well: Ashwini Vaishnaw Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) in July announced a $400 million investment in India over the next five years and said it will build its largest design centre in Bengaluru.
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