The world’s largest semiconductor companies face a growing competitive threat: their biggest customers making their own chips tailored to the supercharged areas of cloud-computing and artificial intelligence. Chip making has long been ruled by big manufacturers and design houses such as Intel Corp. , Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and graphics-chip […]
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Samsung expands Texas chip plant in investment race with TSMC
SEOUL — Samsung Electronics will expand its semiconductor factory in Texas to make room for next-generation manufacturing equipment as it seeks to wrestle the title of the world’s biggest contract chipmaker away from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. TSMC has already announced a plan to build a new plant in the state […]
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Intel, partners make new strides in Loihi neuromorphic computing chip development
Intel has released new performance benchmarks for the Loihi neuromorphic computing processor, revealing improvements in power consumption and efficiency. During Intel’s virtual Lab Day, on Thursday, the tech giant revealed Loihi chip improvements in voice command recognition, gesture recognition in artificial intelligence (AI) applications, image retrieval, search functions, and robotics. […]
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Apple’s New Mac Chip Is Winning Raves. Here’s What It Means for Investors.
Text size Apple sold $28.62 billion worth of Mac computers in fiscal 2020, up from $25.48 billion in 2019. Courtesy Apple Apple announced a big shift in its personal computers months ago, telling consumers that it was going to abandon chips designed by Intel in favor of its own semiconductors […]
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AMD Agrees to Buy Rival Chip Maker Xilinx for $35 Billion
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. plans to buy rival chip maker Xilinx Inc. in a $35 billion deal, adding momentum to the consolidation of the semiconductor industry that has only accelerated during the pandemic. AMD and Xilinx on Tuesday said the companies reached an all-stock deal that would significantly expand their […]