AMD Just Bought the Company Betting Inference Doesn’t Need a GPU
AMD has agreed to acquire Taalas, a startup focusing on specialized inference silicon that embeds trained model weights directly into chips, enhancing efficiency but…
AMD has agreed to acquire Taalas, a startup focusing on specialized inference silicon that embeds trained model weights directly into chips, enhancing efficiency but…
AMD and Anthropic announced a partnership involving 2 gigawatts of AMD GPUs in Helios systems, supported by a $5 billion equity investment. The collaboration…
TSMC is expanding its CoWoS outsourcing to OSAT partners due to overwhelming demand, particularly from Nvidia. Despite doubling capacity, TSMC will still fall short…
The European AI sector faces a significant challenge: while purchasing AI accelerators is quick, connecting them to the power grid can take seven to…
AMD Helios, unveiled at the Advancing AI 2026 event, is entering production, shipping with major clients like Microsoft. Corporate VP Andrew Dieckman downplayed CUDA's…
Zhaoxin, a joint venture with VIA Technologies, holds a unique position as China's lone x86 chipmaker without U.S. sanctions. Despite being behind in technology,…
Hygon, a Chinese server chip manufacturer, evolved from a 2017 AMD EPYC architecture, leveraging a 2016 licensing deal. Despite U.S. sanctions halting new IP…
Chiplets and UCIe are unbundling AI hardware the same way Modular unbundles CUDA. Why the moat doesn't vanish, it just relocates to TSMC's packaging…
MIT's 2024 reasoning model and AMD's Ryzen AI chips proved on-device AI code generation could work. Two years later, the shift is complete, and…
128 GB of unified memory, a 40-core RDNA GPU, and local LLM inference nobody can revoke. The GMKtec EVO-X2 is the hardware argument for…
Intel 18A brings RibbonFET and PowerVia backside power to Panther Lake, a genuine leadership feature, just as the CEO who bet everything on it…
Jensen Huang's presence in Beijing coincided with the U.S. Commerce Department's lifting of a chip ban, allowing Nvidia and AMD to resume shipments to…
Nvidia and AMD regained export licenses for China, reviving significant revenue potential after prior restrictions. Concurrently, a Senate vote ended a federal AI moratorium,…
Gerard Williams III, former Apple architect, founded Nuvia to adapt Apple’s microarchitecture for a broader market, leading to Qualcomm's Oryon chip. The architecture features…
OpenAI makes GPT-4 Turbo with Vision generally available while AMD launches the MI300X AI accelerator, expanding options for developers building multimodal AI applications and…