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Google poaches chip guru from IBM to lead its "next-gen" CPU
Google building its own server silicon, vows to "double down" on custom chips
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Want to help develop the UK semiconductor strategy? Your country needs you -- badly
Can a new policy advisor and government inquiry help?
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Large language model platforms will be the "new factories"
"Modern AI factories with data as the raw material input and intelligence as the output"
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AMD continues its astonishing return from the "dead"
AMD continues its astonishing return from the grave...
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Chip sales hit $151 billion in Q1 as Intel, ASML scramble to scale up
Intel still has over $22 billion to spend this year...
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Intel to buy Tower Semiconductor for $5.4 billion in foundries drive
Move follows watershed RISC-V partnership.
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EU Chips Act disappoints, with doubts over sources of €43 billion funding
Proposals only allocate €11bn in EU funds but open door to more state aid, as EU Chips Act aims to secure 20% of semiconductor production in the bloc by 2030.
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Chip shortage? What chip shortage? Record 1 trillion semiconductors shipped
Covid in China and a fire in Berlin trouble markets however
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The Great Chip Shortage: From boilers, to the cloud, what does 2022 bring?
Seeking a new gas boiler for The Stack’s bracingly cold HQ, we were told this week that the model sought was unavailable. Why? A global semiconductor shortage that has caused shortages in unexpected industries, quoth the gasman. Boilers increasingly use wireless control units that, like most things digital, require
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Alibaba showcases most advanced Chinese chip yet: a 5nm Arm-based server CPU
China’s Alibaba -- the $109 billion by annual revenue multinational – has revealed a new 5nm Arm-based server chip for use in its data centers in a major step towards more silicon self sufficiency. (While the company has designed the Yitian 710 CPU itself, it does not have 5nm fabbing
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With punchy new M1 Pro, M1 Max chips, Apple drops Intel
New Apple silicon packs serious firepower...
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Global chip shortage to cost automakers $210b
Ford said it will lose "about 50% of our planned volume in the second quarter" as a result