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The uncertain future of embattled semiconductor giant Intel has taken a significant step towards clarity, as it has reportedly agreed to join forces with TSMC. -
A new era is underway at Intel as new CEO Lip-Bu Tan took to the stage at the company’s Vision 2025 event, delivering a candid and defiant keynote that laid bare the stark challenges ahead and his commitment to overcoming them.
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Wales is set to receive a £250 million investment from Vishay Intertechnology, one of the world’s largest semiconductor manufacturers, marking a significant boost for the UK’s advanced manufacturing sector.
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After a shaky start to the year following the DeepSeek debacle and the lacklustre RTX 50-Series launch, Nvidia came out swinging last week at its annual GTC conference. Despite this renewed confidence, some underlying concerns remain regarding the chipmaker's long-term future.
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Softbank has expanded its AI portfolio with a $6.5 billion deal to buy Ampere Computing, a Silicon Valley startup developing Arm-based sustainable AI chips.
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Several European governments have joined forces to launch the Semicon Coalition, a collective effort to secure Europe’s place in the global semiconductor industry.
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Intel is reportedly looking to sell a major stake in Altera, its programmable logic device subsidiary as it continues to look for ways to generate some much-needed cash.
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It’s rarely a good sign when a company’s stock hits a six-month high on speculation that it could be broken up, but that’s exactly where Intel finds itself.
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The UK High Court has upheld a government order requiring Chinese state-backed investment firm FTDI Holding Limited (FTDIHL) to divest its 80.2% stake in British semiconductor company Future Technology Devices International (FTDI).
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EnCharge AI, a startup looking to shake up the semiconductor space, has raised over $100 million in an oversubscribed Series B funding round to accelerate the commercialisation of its AI accelerators.
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Amazon just about scraped by projected earnings but investors still soured on the tech giant after a less-than-stellar performance from its cloud business.
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AMD’s data centre arm contributed around 50% of its annual revenue, with Nvidia’s biggest rival reporting an “outstanding year” with demand increasing for its GPUs and CPUs.
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Yann LeCun, Meta’s chief AI scientist, claimed the market reaction to DeepSeek was “woefully unjustified” and that open source research powered the Chinese startup's meteoric rise, not its hardware.
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President Trump has unveiled plans to introduce hefty tariffs on semiconductors made in Taiwan to encourage chip manufacturers to bring production to the US.
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The US Commerce Department has finalised Infinera’s $93 million CHIPS Act funding in what could be one of the final grants before President-Elect Trump takes office.
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Alibaba Cloud, Apple, and Synopsys have become the latest big tech firms to join the industry group attempting to create an open standard around GPU interconnectivity.
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MACOM Technology Solutions, which produces semiconductor devices used in telco and defence applications, has been awarded $70 million from the US government to expand its manufacturing facilities.
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The Biden administration has awarded up to $53 million in direct funding to HP to expand and modernise its Corvallis, Oregon facility to create a new research lab.
