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…
Intel Says Its 14A Process Will Land Within 5% of TSMC’s A14
Naga Chandrasekaran chose a phrase that sounds like a promise and reads like a hedge. Speaking with KeyBanc Capital Markets on September 25, Intel’s chief technology and operations officer for…
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…
Nike Founder Phil Knight Pledges $1 Billion to University of Oregon
For most of its history, the University of Oregon has produced Olympic runners, a Nobel laureate and the co-founder of the world’s largest sportswear company — without ever having an…
Qualcomm and Apple Renew the Patent Deal That Ended a War
In April 2019, as a federal jury trial between Apple and Qualcomm was getting under way in San Diego, the two companies settled a two-year legal war and signed a…
Nvidia Plants a Medical-Research Outpost in Israel
Nvidia’s chips run the data centers that train the world’s largest models. On September 23 the company said it wants those same systems to help discover drugs. The chipmaker announced…
Cognex Buys Intel’s RealSense for $500 Million
The 3D cameras that give factory robots a sense of depth began life inside Intel in 2014, part of the chipmaker’s attempt to move beyond processors and into the devices…
Solidigm Weighs a NAND Plant in Upstate New York
The geography of the memory-chip industry has been set for decades, with the bulk of production concentrated in South Korea. That map may be about to shift, at least by…
McKinsey Says U.S. Chip Industry Faces a 157,000-Worker Shortfall
The factories are funded, the subsidies are in place, and the chips are designed. What is missing, according to a report McKinsey published with the SEMI Foundation on September 17,…
SK Hynix Plays Down Reports of U.S. Memory Talks With Intel
The statement was short and pointed, the kind a company issues when a report has run ahead of the facts. On September 16, SK Hynix said it has not confirmed…
