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AI chips, GPUs, data centers, cloud compute, and the hardware powering the AI revolution.

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Importance:NewsAI server cost reduction / heterogeneous computing

AMD, MangoBoost Aim to Cut AI Server Costs by Up to 90%

AMD and South Korean semiconductor startup MangoBoost are joining forces to expand adoption of heterogeneous computing based on open ecosystems,... Source: thelec.net

Importance:NewsNvidia investment / AI data centers

Nvidia Commits $2 Billion To Nebius Group (NASDAQ: NBIS) As Avride-Uber Partnership Targets Robotaxi Market

Nvidia has committed a direct $2 billion investment into Nebius Group (NASDAQ: NBIS), backing the company's ambitions to scale AI data center... Source: foreignpolicyjournal.com

Importance:OpinionUS-China AI hardware rivalry

Stack battles: the US-China artificial-intelligence rivalry is moving beyond chips alone

China is challenging US leadership in both AI hardware and software, with Europe unlikely to catch up. Source: bruegel.org

Importance:NewsCPU AI extensions/x86

Intel and AMD's new ACE CPU extensions bring an efficient AI-oriented instruction set to x86 — a new design makes matrix multiplication more power- and density-efficient

Most all you hear about "running an AI model" involves a GPU of some sort, but not every AI task is suited to that hardware. Smaller models or single-user... Source: tomshardware.com

Importance:Newsdata center expansion/UK

Nebius Group (NBIS) Launches £1.7b UK AI Buildout With Nvidia Robotics Lab

Nebius Group (NasdaqGS:NBIS) announced a £1.7b UK AI infrastructure expansion, including three advanced data centers. The company is partnering with NVIDIA... Source: simplywall.st

Importance:NewsGoogle AI chip strategy

Google Is Using Nvidia’s Playbook to Build a Rival AI Chip Business

Wielding its war chest to win data-center customers for its silicon, the world's second-biggest company is taking a page from No. 1. Source: wsj.com

Importance:NewsAmazon chip business revenue

Amazon CEO Jassy says company could sell AI chips, raising stakes for Nvidia, AMD

According to the chief executive, Amazon's chip business has an annual revenue run rate of $20 billion and is growing at triple-digit percentages year over year... Source: finance.yahoo.com

Importance:NewsAmazon custom AI chips

Amazon hopes to challenge Nvidia more directly by selling its AI chips

AWS is in talks to sell its chips to other data centers. CEO Andy Jassy has said this represents a $50 billion opportunity for the company. Source: techcrunch.com

Importance:PolicyAI chip location tracking legislation

Bill that would mandate AI chip location tracking gains industry support

Half a dozen companies came out in support of the Chips Security Act, which would require location-tracking mechanisms for America's most advanced computing... Source: nbcnews.com

Importance:NewsAmazon custom AI chips

Amazon in Talks to Sell Custom AI Chips in Bid to Undercut Nvidia

Amazon.com Inc. is in talks to sell its custom-made artificial intelligence chips for use in other companies' data centers, a key expansion of its efforts... Source: bloomberg.com

Importance:OpinionAI chip export policy

Ball game’s over—the US is out of the AI chip market in China

A recent New York Times headline says it all: “Trump Approved a Nvidia Chip for Sale in China. Beijing Doesn't Want It.” The administration endured... Source: brookings.edu

Importance:NewsNvidia competitive landscape

Nvidia’s Biggest Threat Isn’t AMD—It’s Its Own Best Customers

Nvidia stock is lagging behind the wider semiconductor sector as big customers face pressure to make their AI spending more efficient. Source: barrons.com

Importance:NewsNvidia bond sale

Nvidia to raise $25 billion in first corporate bond sale in five years

Nvidia said on Monday it would raise $25 billion through a U.S. bond issuance, as it taps ​the debt market to increase liquidity for the first time since... Source: reuters.com

Importance:NewsNvidia bond sale

Nvidia joins AI borrowing frenzy with $25-million bond sale

Chipmaking giant Nvidia Corp. sold $25 billion of high-grade bonds, joining a wave of jumbo debt offerings from tech heavyweights as investors clamor to get... Source: latimes.com

Importance:NewsQualcomm/Tenstorrent M&A

Qualcomm in Talks to Buy Tenstorrent to Expand AI Chip Capabilities

Qualcomm has been in talks to buy Tenstorrent, a startup that designs chips for AI, according to a person with direct knowledge of the deal. Source: theinformation.com

Importance:NewsQualcomm/Tenstorrent M&A

Qualcomm reportedly in talks to acquire AI chip-design company Tenstorrent

Shares of Qualcomm have surged more than 60% in less than eight weeks as the company looks to carve out a bigger slice of the growing AI pie.... Source: sherwood.news

Importance:NewsNvidia finance/capital markets

Nvidia plans to raise at least $20 billion in its first debt sale since start of AI boom

Nvidia is set to raise capital in a debt sale for the first time since 2021, when the chipmaker was a fraction of its current size. Source: cnbc.com

Importance:NewsAI hardware market growth

NVIDIA’s revenue from data centers and AI has grown 1,300-fold in the last 12 years

Spending on the hardware that trains and runs artificial intelligence has grown rapidly over the past years. One of the clearest indicators of how rapidly... Source: ourworldindata.org

Importance:NewsChina AI chips/export controls

Exclusive: ByteDance in talks with China's Iluvatar CoreX to purchase AI chips, sources say

Chinese technology company ByteDance is in talks with Shanghai-based Iluvatar ‌CoreX to purchase AI chips for inference work and is also considering a... Source: reuters.com

Importance:NewsAI infrastructure investment

NVIDIA, KKR Back Helix Platform to Accelerate Next-Gen AI Infrastructure Development

KKR, together with the Kuwait Investment Authority (KIA), NVIDIA and Vistra announced the launch of Helix Digital Infrastructure (Helix), a new company... Source: thefastmode.com