AI chips

Samsung Electronics Co. pledged to keep cutting memory chip production while forecasting a rebound in sales in the second half of the year, as AI demand helps global tech spending climb out of a post-Covid funk.Samsung, which on Thursday reported better-than-expected net income, said artificial intelligence will provide a boost to memory demand before the year's end. Korea's largest company plans to double its capacity to make high-bandwidth memory (HBM), a next-generation technique used to help train AI, by 2024. That…

Chipmaker AMD, which had seemingly been relegated to a spot very much behind the new darling of the markets, Nvidia, has just hit back hard by doing exactly what was required to make a telling comeback that would actually be noticed - it unveiled its fancy new supchip. And if all that is being said about it comes true, it will grab the spotlight from its arch rival and keep it on itself. In effect, AMD has started a battle for super chips in which it expects to come out a 'winner', according to CEO Lisa Su. She added…

Nvidia Corp. was once a scrappy underdog. Founded in a Silicon Valley diner, the designer of graphics chips faced death more than once before finally realising its founders’ vision of standalone semiconductors used specifically for displaying images on a screen. Having already surpassed storied titans Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc., the company’s market capitalisation touched $1 trillion last week. Graphics didn’t get it there, though. A bet that its approach to number-crunching would be a perfect fit for the…

"When I was here, in all of our supply chain discussions, we feel perfectly safe," Huang told reporters on the sidelines of a technology event in TaipeiNvidia Corp, a major supplier of chips and computing systems for artificial intelligence (AI), feels "perfectly safe" about relying so much on chip powerhouse Taiwan for manufacturing, its chief executive Jensen Huang said on Thursday.Some companies have expressed concerns about potential risks to business given…

Microsoft Corp. is working with Advanced Micro Devices Inc. on the chipmaker's expansion into artificial intelligence processors, according to people with knowledge of the situation, part of a multipronged strategy to secure more of the highly coveted components.The companies are teaming up to offer an alternative to Nvidia Corp., which dominates the market for AI-capable chips called graphics processing units, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the matter is private. The software giant is providing…

Taiwan's top chip design company MediaTek is focusing more resources on chips for cars and AI computing as its smartphone clients face a supply glut and inflation and macroeconomic uncertainty dent demand for consumer electronics."We are definitely moving our resources very, very rapidly towards the automotive and computing areas, because those areas will provide our growth in the next three to five years," MediaTek Inc chief executive Rick Tsai told an earnings call. "In this very demanding environment, we are not…

Lenovo isn’t alone. Unlike 2020, when such features were implemented at the software level only, chipmakers such as Intel, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and Nvidia are making AI processing a core part of their chips. While Apple, too, had built a neural engine into its new M-series chips, Intel, Nvidia and AMD together command a much larger market share in the PC market. Chips from these firms are usually used for Windows-based laptops, which compromise over 75% of the PC market, according to statistics website…

Nvidia Corp chief executive officer Jensen Huang said that the burgeoning field of artificial intelligence will create powerful tools that require legal regulation and social norms that have yet to be worked out. Huang is one of the most prominent figures in artificial intelligence because Nvidia's chips are widely used in the field, including in a supercomputer that Microsoft Corp built for startup OpenAI, in which Microsoft said Monday it was making a multibillion-dollar investment. Huang was speaking at an event in…