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Nvidia Bets On Infrastructure In AI Race With Lancium Investmentedit
Nvidia’s reported plan to invest up to $3 billion in infrastructure developer Lancium reflects a broader shift underway in the artificial intelligence industry.
Publication: Business World
Nvidia Builds AI Safety Team As AI Agent Risks Growedit
Nvidia is creating a dedicated AI safety and security engineering team as autonomous AI agents become more capable and widely adopted.
Publication: BW People
When will Nvidia RTX 50 Super series GPUs launch? Supply chain and demand issues examinededit
The Nvidia RTX 50 Super series is set to be a midcycle refresh to the existing Blackwell GPUs, with slight spec bumps and larger VRAM buffers squeezing out the most of the architecture introduced last year.
Publication: Tech Sports Keeda
Intel s Advanced Packaging Boosts AI Compute for Data Centersedit
Intel Foundry is advancing chip packaging technologies like Foveros and Embedded Multidie Interconnect Bridge (EMIB) to scale artificial intelligence (AI) compute capabilities.
Publication: The Economic Times
Microsoft may launch its next AI chip next month to challenge Nvidia dominanceedit
This comes as the software giant accelerates efforts to scale inhouse silicon and reduce its heavy reliance on Nvidia hardware.
Publication: The Times of India
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As AI moves beyond pilots, Dell Technologies sees India entering a new phase of enterprise adoptionedit
According to Venkat Sitaram, Senior Director and Country Head, Infrastructure Solutions Group, Dell Technologies India, the clearest indicator of this shift is that organisations are beginning to move AI initiatives into production environments.
Publication: The Economic Times
Acer targets premium PCs, gaming to grow market shareedit
Acer India is looking to expand its market share in the PC segment by increasing its focus on premium laptops, gaming PCs and offline retail, even as higher memory and storage costs are pushing up prices across the market, Sanjeev Mehtani, chief sales officer, Acer India, told Fe in an interaction.
Publication: The Financial Express
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An Indian encore, for chipsedit
The government is serious: Last fortnight it announced Semicon 2, earmarking an additional ~1.27 trillion as financial incentive for companies to build fabs, plants for outsourced semiconductor assembly and test (OSAT) and assembly testing, marking and packaging (ATMP) plants, the supply chain ecosystem and home-grown design firms.
Publication: Business Standard
Meta launches AI model that runs on your PCedit
Meta’s latest model, Muse Glimmer, is a 30-billion-parameter model designed to perform agentic tasks and run locally on a laptop or a single consumer GPU. Unlike conventional AI models that largely respond to prompts, Glimmer is designed to plan a task, use developer-approved tools, check the results and recover when a step fails.
Publication: The Financial Express
Uttar Pradesh Semiconductor Policy, 2024: Key features, incentivesedit
The policy forms part of Uttar Pradesh’s wider electronics-manufacturing strategy. It seeks to attract projects across semiconductor fabrication, compound semiconductors, silicon photonics, sensors, discrete semiconductors and assembly, testing, marking and packaging operations.
Publication: Business Standard
ET Graphics: The brief life of frontier AI The Economic Timesedit
The AI industry s rapid release cycle is making flagship models increasingly short-lived. Instead of supporting multiple generations in parallel, leading AI companies are retiring or winding down older models within months of their launch.
Publication: The Economic Times
AI fills India’s data centers as inference moves to productionedit
An increase in artificial intelligence (AI) consumption is rapidly filling up capacity in Indian data centers, even as the share of model training remains minuscule compared to global hubs, industry executives said.AI workloads fall into two categories, but their infrastructure requirements differ sharply.
Publication: The Economic Times
Microsoft expands its India AI infrastructure footprintedit
Microsoft has launched its largest data centre hub in India in Hyderabad, adding a fourth cloud region to its existing footprint in Pune, Chennai and Mumbai. The expansion strengthens the company’s infrastructure base as it seeks to capture a larger share of India’s cloud and artificial intelligence market.
Publication: Manufacturing Today
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