Masayoshi Son, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Softbank Group. Image: Softbank YouTube Softbank has Announced Plans to Acquire The Chip Startup Ampere for $ 6.5 Billion in an all-Cash Deal that “Broadens its ai infrastructure investments.” For the last eight years, ampere has been designing high-performance processors tailored for cloud computing, AI Workloads, and…
Image: Intel Intel Has named Chip Industry Veteran Lip-Bu Tan as Its New CEO, Effective March 18. The 65-year-old spent 12 years as the ceo of Cade Design Systems, A Company SPANCIALIZING In SOFTWARE and Herardware Solutions for Chip Design, DURING HE DOULED Its Revenue. Tan also founded a venture capital firm that has backed…
Intel Foundry. Image: Intel Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company has offered a share in its proposed acquisition of Intel’s Chip Foundries to Nvidia, Broadcom, and AMD, Sources Told Reuters. The taiwanese chipmaker intends to oversee the operations of intelly’s fab division, but aims to retain less than 50% ownership and is seeking multiple partners for the…
Image: Ellinnur/envato elements With an eye Toward Boosting Malaysia Beyond Chip Assembly and Into More Lucrative Semiconductor Production, Arm Holdings Plc Will Provide the Southeast Asian Country with Chip Designs and Technology. The malaysian government will pay the softbank group-ovned Arm $ 250 Million Over a 10-Year Period for Semiconductor-Related Licenses and Access to Intellectual…
Intel’s Fab of the Chip Factories Campus IT’s Building in New Albany, Ohio. Image: Intel Intel’s plans to build two chip factories in new albany, oho for an investment of more than $ 28 billion have been posted. One of the plants was planned to be operable in 2025, according to the wall street journey….
While the world has largely recovered from the chip shortage of 2020 to 2023, only 26% of organizations that rely on them currently feel that their supply is sufficient, according to a new report by the Capgemini Research Institute. The report revealed that the AI boom has executives worried about whether fabs can keep up….
NVIDIA made a host of new announcements through a keynote speech from its CEO delivered at CES 2025 in Las Vegas on Monday. The main event was the GeForce RTX 50-series, the company’s first flagship desktop GPU offering in over two years. The graphics cards are powerful enough to run AI models and can multiply…
The Chinese government is investigating US chipmaker NVIDIA for allegedly violating its anti-monopoly law by acquiring interconnect provider Mellanox. On Monday, the State Administration for Market Regulation made a statement via China Central Television announcing the investigation, but it does not discuss the specifics of NVIDIA’s suspected violations. The authority approved NVIDIA’s $6.9 billion acquisition…
