March 21, 2024

AMD specific news

AMD Boosts Autonomous Driving Footprint With SSS Transactionedit

Advanced Micro Devices AMD is gaining traction in the autonomous driving landscape thanks to its strong portfolio that is driving clientele. It is playing a pivotal role in Sony Semiconductor Solutions (SSS) latest automotive Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) reference design.

Publication: Yahoo Finance

AMD brand mentions

Are you ready for the Al PC?edit

Hardware-Enabled: These run below 40 Tops (tera operations per second) and allow specific AI features within apps to run locally. The chips come from Qualcomm, Apple, AMD, and Intel. Next-Gen: These AI PCs run between 40 and 60 Tops on an OS (operating system) that enables persistent and pervasive AI capabilities in both the OS and apps.

Publication: Data Quest

Competition in news

Yotta gets first tranche of 4000 GPUs from Nvidiaedit

Hiranandani Group’s data centre firm Yotta Data Services has received the first tranche of 4,000 graphics processing units from Nvidia, the company said on Tuesday.

Publication: PTI

NVIDIA to collaborate with Hipprocratic AI, a company that wants to replace nursesedit

Palo Alto based Hippocratic AI on Monday announced a collaboration with NVIDIA to develop empathetic AI healthcare agents that are aimed at replacing nurses and other healthcare workers. Hippocratic will use NVIDIA s AI platform to power their agents.

Publication: The Indian Express

Nvidia GTC 2024 key announcements: From AI Chip to Humanoid Robotedit

Nvidia’s CEO, Jensen Huang, kicked off the company s annual GPU Technology Conference (GTC) on Monday by unveiling a range of exciting products and advancements, from the Blackwell platform to the foundational model for humanoid robots.

Publication: TechCircle

NVIDIA Blackwell AI graphics engine to cost 2540 lakh, says CEO Jensen Huangedit

Blackwell, NVIDIA’s next generation artificial intelligence graphics engine, will cost you somewhere between $30,000 (25 lakh) and $40,000 (40 lakh) per unit, its CEO Jensen Huang has said.

Publication: CNBC TV-18

L&T Tech bets on partnerships to accelerate growthedit

Amongst the several steps, Chadha has taken to ensure growth, is the focus on building capabilities and focussing on partnerships. In the recent past, LTTS has been in the news for partnering with various companies like Marelli, Qualcomm, Blackberry, Amazon Web Services, Intel, Google Cloud and Nvidia among others.

Publication: Financial Express

AI will help India become the front office where value is created: NVIDIA’s Jensen Huangedit

NVIDIA founder Jensen Huang Artificial intelligence will help India transition from being the IT back office of global companies to the front office for engineering, finance, marketing and sales, NVIDIA founder Jensen Huang said on March 19.

Publication: MoneyControl

Open for business, spread the word : Nvidia CEO on India’s AI planedit

Nvidia’s CEO, Jensen Huang, showed keen interest in joining India s ambitious plan to enhance its AI supercomputing infrastructure. India is looking to bolster its artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to support startups, academic institutions, researchers, and the wider industry in the country.

Publication: India Today

Intel announces $100 billion investment plan across four US statesedit

Semiconductor giant Intel on Wednesday, March 20, announced plans to invest a substantial $100 billion across several US states, with the goal of bolstering its manufacturing capabilities.

Publication: CNBC TV-18

Indian IT Pros to be ‘Front-office’ of AI Revolution: Nvidiaedit

Nvidia is a major player in the global GPU market with leadership in technology sectors such as AI and gaming. The AI superchip maker on Monday announced its most powerful Blackwell GPU chip, capable of processing trillion-parameter AI models up to 30 times faster and at one-fourth use of power compared to its predecessor.

Publication: The Economic Times

Intel Wins $20 B in Grants, Loans For Chip Plantsedit

The US will award Intel $8.5 billion in grants and as much as $11 billion in loans to help fund an expansion of its semiconductor factories, marking the largest award from a program designed to reinvigorate the domestic chip industry.

Publication: The Economic Times

Partner in news

Lenovo Legion Pro 7i, Legion Pro 5i, Legion 7i, & Legion 5i Launched In India: Check Price, Specificationsedit

Legion 5i, Legion Pro 5i, Lenovo Legion 7i, and Lenovo Legion 7i Pro have officially been launched in India. These laptops were initially unveiled globally at CES 2024 earlier this year and come equipped with AI-powered features enhanced by a dedicated AI chip.

Publication: ABP News

Battle ready!edit

The new Lenovo Legion Pro series has hit the Indian market, which includes the Legion Pro 7i and Legion Pro 5i laptops. Equipped with up to Intel Core i9-14900HX processors and NVIDIA RTX 4090 with 32 GB DDR5 memory, these deliver optimised power for pro-level gamers.

Publication: The Hindu BusinessLine

Industry news

Saudi Arabia plans $40 billion investment in artificial intelligenceedit

In recent weeks, representatives of Saudi Arabia s Public Investment Fund have discussed a potential partnership with Andreessen Horowitz, one of Silicon Valley’s top venture capital firms, and other financiers, said the people, who were not authorized to speak publicly. They cautioned that the plans could still change.

Publication: Business Standard

RRP Electronics to set up first semiconductor plant in Maharashtraedit

RRP Electronics has tied up with a consortium of European companies to set up a one of its kind semiconductor facility in Maharashtra. The company, which will invest 5,000 crore over the next five years, plans to lay the foundation stone in its new premises of 25,000 sq ft on March 23.

Publication: The Hindu BusinessLine

Major crackdown on Chinese firms: US plans to blacklist Huawei’s secretive chip network, says reportedit

Among the companies that could be blacklisted are chipmakers Qingdao Si En, SwaySure, and Shenzhen Pensun Technology Co, or PST. The Biden officials are also weighing sanctions on China s leading memory chipmaker, ChangXin Memory Technologies Inc, the report said.

Publication: Business Today

First chip out of semiconductor unit in Assam’s Jagiroad will be rolled out by 2025: Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarmaedit

Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that the first chip out of the semiconductor unit in Assam’s Jagiroad will be rolled out by 2025. Sarma met Ratan Tata on Wednesday.

Publication: The Economic Times

First Made In India Semiconductor Chip Will Roll Out In December 2024: Ashwini Vaishnawedit

Union Minister for Communications and Electronics and IT, Ashwini Vaishnaw, on Tuesday said that by the end of this year India would witness the launch of the first indigenous semiconductor chip.

Publication: BusinessWorld

Despite late start, can India make gains in global chip raceedit

The ecosystem from across the globe will mobilise to have India as their preferred semiconductor destination, N Chandrasekaran, chairman of Tata Sons, said in a statement on March 13, to mark the beginning of construction of two chip factories by the Indian conglomerate.

Publication: Forbes

Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma thanks Ratan Tata for semiconductor facility in Assamedit

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday said the upcoming Rs 27,000-crore Tata semiconductor facility will put the state on the world semiconductor map and transform the economic landscape of eastern India.

Publication: The Telegraph

Fab plant will put Assam on global map: Ratan Tataedit

Manufacturing of semiconductors in Assam will put the state on global map, said industrialist and philanthropist Ratan Tata, whose conglomerate has put in Rs 27,000 crore in investments for a semiconductor plant in Jagiroad.

Publication: The Hindu

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