Nvidia is the undisputed king of AI chips. But thanks to the AI it helped build, the champ could soon face growing competition. Modern AI runs on Nvidia designs, a dynamic that has propelled the company to a market cap of well over $4 trillion. Each new generation of Nvidia chip allows companies to train … Read more
Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan said Tuesday that the chipmaker will “work closely” with Elon Musk to support the billionaire entrepreneur’s Terafab project, a potentially massive chip development and fabrication operation that will be jointly developed by SpaceX and Tesla. A photo posted by Intel’s official Musk’s 1-terawatt, ultrahigh performance chip-fabrication facility, which may span multiple … Read more
It’s still an extremely challenging proposition. “Packaging is not as easy as saying, ‘I want to run 100,000 wafers per month,’” says Jim McGregor, a longtime chip industry analyst and the founder of Tirias Research, referring to a continuous flow of chips in various stages of production. “It really comes down to whether Intel’s [packaging] … Read more
Rene Haas is half-prone on a couch in his office in San Jose, California. A basketball rests in his hand, partially obscuring his face. Haas had grimaced when WIRED’s photographer first asked him to assume this position. The headlines came to him immediately: “People are going to say ‘Arm’s CEO sleeps on the job,’” he … Read more
Arm, one of the world’s leading chip design firms, announced Tuesday that it is producing its own semiconductors. The move is a departure from its long-standing model of licensing intellectual property to companies that manufacture and sell chips themselves. Speaking to a live audience in San Francisco, Arm CEO Rene Haas made his pitch for … Read more
Meta announced Wednesday that it has developed four new computer chips that will be used to power generative AI features and content ranking systems within the tech giant’s own apps. The hardware will become part of Meta’s existing chip line known as MTIA, or Meta Training and Inference Accelerators. Meta partnered with Broadcom to develop … Read more