AMD specific news
Here’s How AMD Plans To Challenge Nvidia In The Battle Of AIedit
AMD said on Tuesday it plans to buy an artificial intelligence startup called Nod.ai as part of an effort to bolster its software capabilities. In its race to catch rival chipmaker Nvidia, Advanced Micro Devices plans to invest heavily in the critical software necessary for the company’s advanced AI chips. Through more than a decade of work, Nvidia has built a powerful advantage in the AI chip market through the software it makes, and the software developer ecosystem.
Publication: News 18
AMD Signed Agreement to Acquire Open Source AI Software Expert Nod.aiedit
By joining forces with AMD, we will bring this expertise to a broader range of customers on a global scale.
Publication: Digital Terminal
AMD set to acquire a major AI software company to challenge NVIDIA s dominance in GPUsedit
On Tuesday, AMD announced its intention to acquire the artificial intelligence startup known as Nod.ai. This strategic move is a pivotal step in augmenting AMD s software capabilities.
Publication: First Post
AMD gets the Nodedit
Nod.ai s software can accelerate the deployment of AI models across systems using AMD s Instinct data centre accelerators, Ryzen AI processors, EPYC processors, Versal SoCs and Radeon GPUs.
Publication: Electronics Weekly
American chipmaker AMD to acquire AI solutions provider Nod.aiedit
American chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has signed an agreement to acquire Nod.ai to expand its open AI capabilities. As part of its announcement Wednesday, the chipmaker said the agreement strongly aligns with AMD s AI growth strategy that is centred on an open software ecosystem. The addition of Nod.ai will bring an experienced team to its fold.
Publication: ANI News
AMD to Acquire an AI software business, Nod.AI, to catch up to Nvidiaedit
AMD announced Tuesday that it would acquire Nod.AI, an opensource artificial intelligence software business. On Tuesday, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) announced the acquisition of Nod.AI, an opensource artificial intelligence software business, in order to extend the chipmaker s AI software operations.
Publication: ET Telecom
AMD to acquire AI software company Nod.ai to take on Nvidiaedit
Nod.ai will let firms companies AI models tuned to AMD s chips. The addition of Nod.ai will bring an experienced team that has developed an industry leading software technology that accelerates the deployment of AI solutions optimised for AMD Instinct data centre accelerators, Ryzen AI processors, EPYC processors, Versal SoCs and Radeon GPUs to AMD.
Publication: ET CIO
Competition in news
Qualcomm to launch X series chips for PCs in 2024edit
Qualcomm recently announced the Snapdragon X series, a new lineup of chips that might exist alongside the company s existing Snapdragon 8cx processors. In a blog post, the tech giant said that the upcoming Snapdragon X series will be powered by a custom version of the existing Oryon CPUs, offering a significant jump in terms of both performance and power efficiency.
Publication: The Indian Express
Qualcomm eyes to take on Apple s M series chips with Snapdragon Xedit
Qualcomm has a new chip coming, the Snapdragon X the next generation of ARM based processors for PCs, taking on Apple s M series chips 2024 will be an inflection point for the PC industry, and Snapdragon X compute platforms will deliver nextlevel performance, AI, connectivity, and battery life, said Qualcomm, announcing the new nomenclature
Publication: The Times of India
Partner in news
Sony announces slimmer PS5 models with detachable disc drive option: All you need to knowedit
Sony has recently unveiled two updated models of the PlayStation 5 console. These new PS5 variants are more compact than the existing ones, with a 30 percent reduction in volume and weight reductions of 18 percent and 24 percent. Additionally, the previously rumored detachable disc drive for the PS5 has been officially confirmed, and it will be available separately at a later date for a price of $79.99.
Publication: LiveMint
Samsung Q3 profit plunges 78% amid slump in memory chip demand, analyst says better than expectededit
Samsung Electronics on Wednesday said that its quarterly profit had dropped 78 percent amidst a slump in the memory chips market. Samsung Electronics operating profits have dropped to around 2.4 trillion won ($1.8 billion) in the July September quarter compared to 10.85 trillion won a year earlier.
Publication: LiveMint
Industry news
China may have access to powerful AI chips because of partnership with Saudi Arabia, claims reportedit
Western officials have expressed longstanding anxieties regarding the increasing technology transfer between their traditional allies in the Gulf and China.
Publication: First Post
Blockchain and AI Technology: A New Paradigm for Financial Servicesedit
The universe of finance is on the cusp of monumental change, thanks to the dynamic duo of blockchain and AI.
Publication: Hindustan Times
Message from Moody’s: Government must handhold semiconductor industryedit
The report warns that risks posed by global warming could deter investments in the industry and come in the way of India realising its ambition of becoming a chipmaking hub. India is not the only country that faces such a challenge. Taiwan, the current leader in semiconductor manufacturing, is also threatened by erratic weather patterns.
Publication: The Indian Express
The Huawei puzzle: decoding the impact of covert semiconductor fabsedit
Huawei, the Chinese tech giant, has been reportedly building a secret network of semiconductor fabrication facilities across China, according to the Washington based Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) This could enable Huawei to evade US sanctions and further its technological ambitions in key sectors such as artificial intelligence (AI), 5G, quantum information science (QIS), and biotechnology
Publication: The Economic Times
Global PC shipments decline in Q3, sector recovery slowedit
Lenovo with 23.5 per cent was at the top position in Q3, followed by HP Inc with 19.8 per cent market share and Dell with 15 per cent share. Though demand and the global economy remain subdued, PC shipments have increased in each of the last two quarters, slowing the rate of annual decline and indicating that the market has moved past the bottom of the trough, the report mentioned.
Publication: DT Next
Power-hungry AI Bots Worry Researchersedit
By 2027, the electricity powering AI related activities could exceed the yearly power demands of countries such as Netherlands, Argentina and Sweden, new research finds. Wide adoption of AI could have a large energy footprint as gen AI tech such as ChatGPT are undergoing rapid growth, the paper published in the journal Joule said.
Publication: The Economic Times
Embellished CV? Skill holds keyedit
S Pasupathi, COO, HirePro, told TOI, “In today’s digital age of hyper-competition and ChatGPT, many tend to exaggerate their qualifications, creating a landscape of half-truths that complicate the hiring process.
Publication: The Times of India
A relook at our semiconductor policyedit
In late 2021, the Centre announced an outlay of Rs 76,000 crore (about $10 billion) to develop semiconductors and display fabs in India. Providing subsidies to support infant industries is not unusual.
Publication: The Hindu BusinessLine
IT Hardware Firms Trip on ‘Country of Origin’ Norms, Ping Govt for Clarityedit
Laptop and other IT hardware manufacturers such as HP, Dell, Apple, Samsung, Lenovo, Asus, and Acer have approached the government seeking clarity on how to decide the country of origin of their products and the specific unit of measure for these products, among issues, people familiar with the development told ET.
Publication: The Economic Times
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