Synopsys and OpenAI Build a Model That Runs Chip-Design Tools
For years, the hardest job in the chip industry has been invisible from the outside: taking a circuit described in a code-like language and deciding how to lay out billions…
Lisa Su Flies to Taiwan to Ask for More
Lisa Su landed in Taipei this week with a list of people to see and a number to raise. On Monday the Advanced Micro Devices chief executive met with executives…
Altman’s ‘Close Partner’ Remark Gives Cerebras a Lift
One sentence from Sam Altman was enough to move Cerebras Systems. On October 5, shares of the AI chipmaker rose as much as 6% after the OpenAI chief executive described…
Intel’s Nova Lake Chips Clear USB4 and PCIe 5.0 Certification
Intel’s next generation of processors, code-named Nova Lake, has passed compliance and interoperability testing for two standards that desktop and laptop buyers will notice, according to certification records that hardware…
AMD’s World Labs Deal Pushes Fei-Fei Li’s Fortune Past $1 Billion
Fei-Fei Li spent years building a case that machines need to understand the physical world before they can be trusted to act in it. On Monday, that argument became a…
AMD Buys Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs in an $8.2 Billion Bet on Physical AI
The woman who built the dataset that helped ignite modern AI spent this year telling audiences she wanted to be closer to the hardware. On September 28, she got her…
Nvidia Seeks a Patent for a Chatbot That Tunes Games
Buried in the United States patent office is a document that describes a developer typing a plain question into a chat window and getting back working code. The question might…
Microsoft Retires the Copilot+ PC Name and Hands Brad Smith the Message
The “Copilot+ PC” badge is coming off the box. Microsoft confirmed on Sept. 24 that it is retiring the brand it stamped on AI-capable Windows laptops, and the label has…
AMD’s Value Crosses $1 Trillion on a Data-Center Surge
Lisa Su’s company has spent a decade climbing back toward the top of the chip industry. On September 21, for a few hours at least, it got there. AMD’s market…
AMD Tells Customers of a 10% Price Rise, Traced to TSMC
AMD has begun telling its partners what they will pay for chips next quarter, and the message points up the supply chain. Around September 17, the company notified graphics card…
