By Arsheeya Bajwa TAIPEI (Reuters) -Advanced Micro Devices unveiled its latest artificial intelligence processors on Monday and detailed its plan to develop AI chips over the next two years in a bid to challenge industry leader Nvidia. At the Computex technology trade show in Taipei, AMD CEO Lisa Su introduced the MI325X accelerator, which is […]
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AMD Announces Future AI Chips, Will Speed Rollout of New Models
(Bloomberg) — Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is speeding up introductions of new artificial intelligence processors as it seeks to dent Nvidia Corp.’s domination of that lucrative market. Most Read from Bloomberg The MI325X will go on sale in the fourth quarter, Chief Executive Officer Lisa Su said in the opening keynote address of the Computex […]
An era of robotics, ‘AI factories’ powered by Nvidia’s chips and software is ‘in our near future’, CEO Jensen Huang says
Nvidia founder and chief executive Jensen Huang on Sunday unveiled his vision for a new era of generative artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics for industries, powered by the chips, software and other advanced solutions from the company and its various hi-tech partners. In a keynote speech ahead of this year’s Computex trade show in Taiwan […]
Nvidia’s Jensen Huang Lays Out Plans For Future AI Chips, Touts ‘CEO Math’
Nvidia (NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang announced plans for new artificial intelligence accelerator chips Sunday. X Huang, speaking at the eve of Taiwan’s electronics showcase event, Computex 2024, said the Nvidia will roll out Blackwell Ultra chips in 2025 and a new Rubin platform for 2026. On the fiscal Q1 2025 earnings call on May 22, […]
Putting your chips on the table versus in your pocket
Those of us who have watched too many westerns over the years likely have an idealized version of the typical wild west saloon. Roughhewn wooden floors, a long bar littered with whisky glasses, pretty girls in fluffy dresses and poker tables filled with men and their six-shooters. Back then the ante was six bits or […]
AMD Expands Partnership with Samsung, New 3nm Chips to Boost Market Share
AMD Expands Partnership with Samsung, New 3nm Chips to Boost Market Share Advanced Micro Devices, Inc (NASDAQ:AMD) will likely expand its partnership with Samsung Electronics Co (OTC:SSNLF) to develop 3-nanometer chip processing technology. The two companies have a long history of collaboration on graphics processing units (GPUs) for smartphones and high-bandwidth memory (HBM) chips, which […]
Tech giant you’ve probably never heard of wants to put a data center in a shoebox build using 1000 3D superconducting chips — at 20 exaflops, it would be 20x faster than the most powerful supercomputer on Earth
Data center. To counter the strain on global energy resources due to accelerating computational demands – yes, AI, we’re looking at you – research institute imec is suggesting a radical shift away from traditional computing methods. Its solution, detaile in IEEE Spectrum engineering magazine, involves exploiting the fundamental properties of superconductors to greatly reduce energy […]
Exclusive-Samsung’s HBM chips failing Nvidia tests due to heat and power consumption woes, sources say
By Heekyong Yang and Fanny Potkin SEOUL/SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Samsung Electronics’ latest high bandwidth memory (HBM) chips have yet to pass Nvidia’s tests for use in the U.S. firm’s AI processors due to heat and power consumption problems, three people briefed on the issues said. The problems affect Samsung’s HBM3 chips, which are the fourth-generation […]
Arista Stock: Nvidia Outlook On Data Center Networking Chips Pressures Arista
Shares in Arista Networks (ANET) fell on Thursday amid rosy commentary by Nvidia (NVDA) management on its networking business on the chipmaker’s first quarter earnings call. Arista stock retreated to near its 50-day moving average, a key technical level. X On the stock market today, Arista stock fell 4% to 303.69. Amid the retreat, ANET […]
Taiwan’s prized semiconductors not unbreakable ‘silicon shield’ they once were as mainland China, West develop own bargaining chips
A sharp decline in Taiwan’s ties with mainland China could extend to the very devices being used to transmit and read this story. The far-reaching implications from what has been a geopolitical tug of war are ultimately likely to bolster mainland China’s standing as a dominant supplier of older-model semiconductors while ramping up the need […]
US says tariff increases on Chinese EVs, batteries and chips to start Aug. 1
By David Shepardson and David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Some of the steep U.S. tariff increases on an array of Chinese imports, including electric vehicles and their batteries, computer chips and medical products, will take effect on Aug. 1, the U.S. Trade Representative’s office said on Wednesday. President Joe Biden will keep tariffs put in place […]
Intel next-generation Lunar Lake CPUs launching in Q3, Arrow Lake in Q4 — mobile chips claimed to be 1.4x faster than Qualcomm’s X Elite processors
Intel fired yet another salvo in the AI PC war today with claims that its Lunar Lake chips, which are on track for launch in Q3 2024, deliver 1.4x more AI performance than the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite chips that Microsoft showed off today. Intel also claims incredible gains in battery life and power efficiency, […]