Nvidia Will Contribute $5 Billion to Intel to Build Custom x86 Chips

Source: Nvidia/Intel Nvidia will invest $5 billion in its competitor Intel to further intertwine Nvidia’s AI-boosting chips and Intel’s x86 architecture and CPUs. The companies will work together on several…

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Trump’s UK Visit: OpenAI, Nvidia, and Other US Firms Commit Billions for Data Centers

The global AI data center build-out continues as OpenAI and Nvidia are among the American companies that committed to $42 billion in technology investments in the UK on Sept. 16.…

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Microsoft’s Experimental Optical Computer Could Run AI Workloads With Less Energy

Researchers Jiaqi Chu, Francesca Parmigiani, and James Clegg with the current model of Microsoft Research’s analog optical computer in Cambridge, UK. Image: Chris Welsch for Microsoft A Microsoft Research team…

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Do You Hear What I Hear? Amazon Removes Echo Privacy Setting — What You Should Know

Image: crosathorian/Flickr/Creative Commons Last week, Amazon sent an email to select Echo users, warning they must now consent to having their Alexa voice recordings sent to the company’s cloud for…

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Gartner: Samsung Was the Top Semiconductor Vendor Globally in 2024

Samsung regained the top of the leaderboard of semiconductor companies by revenue, Gartner said on Feb. 3 in its yearly worldwide semiconductor vendor statistics report. Global semiconductor revenue hit $626…

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