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

The new AI-F1 supercomputer is expected to go live in Q2 2025

The chip is expected to be available before the end of the year

Deal expected to close by April 2025

Acquisition expected to close in first half of 2025

First on-premise delivery of a Quantinuum system

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

Will provide UK organizations with access to EuroHPC research grants

Machine went offline on January 23

Investment will support expansion of Dammam data center

Fabs structurally sound but a “certain number” of wafers had to scrapped

The Nvidia H100 cluster is alive and kicking in Texas

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

Company has also appointed new CFO and board member

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

Hopes to fabricate chips able to operate in extreme environments

The agreement will see Intel provide chips to support the project

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

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

Will help prepare Taiwan for AI era