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Shortage of Chips Hurts AI, But Problems Go Deeper
The impacts of the chip shortage can be spotted everywhere: from higher prices on home appliances to empty new car lots to higher prices for consumer devices. Processor-hungry AI ...Full Article
Nvidia GPUs Stay in Lead In Latest MLPerf Inference Results, but CPUs and Intel Gaining Ground
Nvidia again dominated the latest round of MLPerf inference benchmark (v 1.1) results when they were unveiled Sept. 23 (Thursday), sweeping the top spots in the closed data center ...Full Article
UK Regulatory Agency Says Proposed $40B Nvidia Deal for Arm ‘Would Lessen Competition’
Nvidia’s proposed $40 billion acquisition of chip IP vendor Arm has hit a major roadblock after a report from a U.K. regulatory agency criticized the deal, saying it could ...Full Article
Nvidia’s Proposed $40B Acquisition of Arm Faces Possible Opposition from UK Official: Report
The proposed $40 billion acquisition of chip IP vendor Arm by GPU powerhouse Nvidia continues to be under review by regulators in the United States, China, the European Union ...Full Article
Intel Partners Debut Latest Servers Based on the New Intel Gen 3 ‘Ice Lake’ Xeon Scalable Processors
Fresh from Intel’s launch of the company’s latest third-generation Xeon Scalable “Ice Lake” processors on April 6 (Tuesday), Intel server partners Cisco, Dell EMC, HPE and Lenovo simultaneously unveiled ...Full Article
Here Are the Impacts of Trump’s Parting Actions Against Huawei
Before leaving the White House on Jan. 20, former President Donald Trump blasted one last political salvo out against Chinese telecommunications powerhouse Huawei by revoking licenses for specific U.S. ...Full Article
Intel Veteran Pat Gelsinger Is Leaving VMware, Returning to Intel as CEO
The Intel board of directors has appointed a new CEO. Intel alum Pat Gelsinger is leaving his post as CEO of VMware to rejoin the company that he parted ...Full Article
Qualcomm’s $1.4B Deal for Nuvia a Good Move: Analysts
Qualcomm apparently isn’t letting the bitter memories of its failed $47 billion attempt to acquire NXP Semiconductor in 2018 halt its growth plans. Instead, the company’s latest $1.4 acquisition ...Full Article
Nvidia Expands Its DPU Family, Unveils New Datacenter on Chip Architecture
Nvidia GTC 2020 – Nvidia kicked off its GTC 2020 GPU Technology Conference with a wide range of intriguing AI announcements, from the introduction of its latest Bluefield-2 Data ...Full Article
Feds, Chipmakers Mull Jump-starting U.S. Chip-making Capacity
The Trump administration is in talks with Intel and TSMC to spur development of new chip factories in the U.S., according to a report in the Wall Street Journal ...Full Article
