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NTT Docomo’s venture arm has invested in Ayar Labs, a US startup developing next-generation optical I/O technologies. -
China’s antitrust regulator has opened an investigation into chip-making giant Nvidia over alleged breaches of anti-monopoly behaviours.
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Google has unveiled its latest quantum computing chip, Willow, a next-generation hardware unit that dramatically reduces quantum computational errors and can perform complex calculations exponentially faster than classical supercomputers.
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IBM researchers claim to have uncovered a way for fibre optic-level speeds to work in data centres, unveiling a new co-packaged optic (CPO) module that could revolutionise AI training efforts.
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Elon Musk’s OpenAI rival xAI is set to further expand its Colossus supercomputer facility, with an announcement from the Greater Memphis Chamber claiming the site will scale to a whopping one million GPUs.
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A new supercomputer has come online in the UK that’s set to power AI and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads.
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Picocom, a semiconductor and software specialist, has launched PC805, a new system-on-chip (SoC) optimised for 5G small cell Open RAN radio units (O-RUs).
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Global semiconductor revenue is projected to decline 3.6% in 2023, according to the latest forecast from Gartner.
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IBM’s plans to invest US$20 billion in New York’s Hudson Valley region over the next decade has been praised by US President Joe Biden.
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Brookfield Infrastructure Partners has signed a US$30 billion partnership agreement with Intel to fund its under-construction semi-conductor fabrication facility in Chandler, Arizona.
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US President Joe Biden has signed a bill that will see the investment of billions of dollars into the country’s semiconductor industry.
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Soracom, an IoT connectivity provider, confirms that SPRESENSE from Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation (SSS) has joined the Soracom Partner Space ecosystem.
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Intel has revealed the first phase of its plans which will see the company spend approximately €33 billion on the development of the European semiconductor market.
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Intel Corporation (Intel) is to acquire Tower Semiconductor (Tower), an Israeli manufacturer of analogue semiconductor solutions, for approximately $5.4 billion.
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SoftBank will be floating shares in its chip design company, Arm, following the collapse of plans to sell it to rival chip company Nvidia.
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IBM and Samsung Electronics have hailed a breakthrough in semiconductor design using a new vertical transistor architecture.
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The latest opponent to Nvidia’s proposed $40 billion purchase of chip designer Arm is a powerful agency of the US government.
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Tata Group is reportedly in talks with three Indian states to potentially build a $300 million semiconductor assembly and test unit.
