5 Burning Questions About Elon Musk’s Terafab Chip Partnership with Intel

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…

The Ridiculously Nerdy Intel Bet That Could Rake in Billions

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…

Arm’s CEO Insists the Market Needs His New CPU. It Could Piss Everyone Off

Rene Haas is half-prone on a couch in his office in San Jose, California. A basketball rests in his hand, partly obscuring his face. Haas…

Arm Is Now Making Its Own Chips

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…

Meta Is Developing 4 New Chips to Power Its AI and Recommendation Systems

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…

Code Metal Raises $125 Million to Rewrite the Defense Industry’s Code With AI

Code Metal, a Boston-based startup that uses AI to write code and translate it into other programming languages, just closed a $125 million Series B…

Nvidia’s Deal With Meta Signals a New Era in Computing Power

Ask anyone what Nvidia makes, and they’re likely to first say “GPUs.” For decades, the chipmaker has been defined by advanced parallel computing, and the…

Loyalty Is Dead in Silicon Valley

Since the middle of last year, there have been at least three major AI “acqui-hires” in Silicon Valley. Meta invested more than $14 billion in…

Jensen Huang Says Nvidia’s New Vera Rubin Chips Are in ‘Full Production’

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says that the company’s next-generation AI superchip platform, Vera Rubin, is on schedule to begin arriving to customers later this year.…

Billion-Dollar Data Centers Are Taking Over the World

When Sam Altman said one year ago that OpenAI’s Roman Empire is the actual Roman Empire, he wasn’t kidding. In the same way that the…