Two companies said to be considering separate acquisitions of Intel’s chip design business and semiconductor fabs

Comments follow debut of Google’s Willow quantum chip late last year

Deal expected to close by April 2025

Acquisition expected to close in first half of 2025

Technology developed using AMD’s latest adaptive SoC

Claims to be the biggest global supplier of direct liquid cooling

Deal could close as early as this month

Funding round saw participation from both new and existing investors

The Nvidia H100 cluster is alive and kicking in Texas

The AI training processor will be fabricated using TSMC 3nm process

Group plans to open a new R&D facility later this year

Hopes to fabricate chips able to operate in extreme environments

Company posted data center revenue of $3.86 billion in Q4 2024

No further information on how the figure breaks down has been revealed

Company says machine could be scaled up to realize “the ultimate goal of a quantum data center”

First US university to deploy an Nvidia DGX Blackwell SuperPOD

Despite the downturn, company has received first two installments of CHIPS Act funding

Howard Lutnick says existing agreements should be honored, but review of scheme may be necessary

Can connect distances of up to 100 meters

Calls CHIPS Act ridiculous, claims chip companies told him they didn’t need the funding

Both companies said more details about the deployment would be revealed soon

The Chinese startup claims its model was trained for significantly less money than those developed by US labs

Investors include Synopsys and Intel Capital

Aims to provide industry standardization for chiplet compatibility