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The Verge
You can now try Microsoft’s Recall AI feature on Intel and AMD Copilot Plus PCs
Recall takes screenshots of almost everything you do on a Copilot Plus PC to make it searchable and easy to recall a memory or retrace your steps. Microsoft has made the AI experience entirely ...
Reuters
US chips are 'no longer safe,' Chinese industry bodies say in latest trade salvo
Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI plans to expand its Memphis, Tennessee, supercomputer to house at least one million graphics processing units (GPUs), the Greater Memphis Chamber said ...
TechCrunch
Akhetonics gets fresh funding for a contrarian bet on all-optical chips
Photonics -- a field that underpins light-based systems for manipulating data -- has a bright future, as the rise of AI demands better computing ...
The Verge
Nvidia says its Blackwell AI chip is ‘full steam’ ahead
Nvidia has become the world’s most valuable company on the back of AI chips, passing Microsoft and Apple along the way, and in today’s Q3 2025 earnings, the company suggested its record AI revenue and ...
The Register
Microsoft unveils beefy custom AMD chip to crunch HPC workloads on Azure
In-house DPU and HSM silicon also shown off Ignite One of the advantages of being a megacorp is that you can customize the silicon that underpins your infrastructure, as Microsoft is demonstrating at ...
TechCrunch
Microsoft to launch new custom chips for data processing, security
Microsoft's announcing chips to power workloads on Azure, including a hardware accelerator to offload and manage data processing tasks.
VentureBeat
AMD will lay off nearly 1,000, or 4% of staff, as AI competition heats up
AMD said today it will lay off 4% of its global staff, or perhaps somewhat less than 1,000 of its estimated 26,000-person workforce.
CNBC
AMD to lay off 4% of workforce, or about 1,000 employees
AMD, a Santa Clara-based chipmaker, said on Wednesday that it will lay off 4% of its staff around the world, as the longtime CPU maker seeks to gain a stronger foothold in the growing AI chip space dominated by Nvidia.
SiliconANGLE
AMD to cut around 1,000 jobs so it can double-down on AI opportunity
AMD is the world’s second-largest manufacturer of graphics processing units, also known as GPUs, which power the vast majority of AI workloads today. The company’s most advanced GPU is the Instinct-branded MI300X accelerator, which provides data center ...
Fortune
AMD cuts 1,000 jobs to focus more on AI chips—and narrow Nvidia’s lead
The chipmaker is trying to grow by cutting jobs.
Reuters
AMD to cut 4% of global workforce as it focuses on AI chip development
Advanced Micro Devices is laying off 4% of its global workforce, or about 1,000 employees, as it directs efforts towards developing AI chips in a bid to compete against industry bellwether Nvidia .
SCMP
AMD cuts 1,000 staff to focus on AI chips in battle with Nvidia
The company’s data centre segment has performed vastly better than its personal computer and gaming units this year.
VentureBeat
AMD unveils Versal Premium Series Gen 2 for data center workloads
Advanced Micro Devices announced its Versal Premium Series Gen 2 chip platform for data center customers doing AI processing and other work.
CRN
AMD Says It’s Laying Off 4 Percent Of Workforce Amid AI Chip Push
AMD confirmed to CRN that it’s laying off roughly 4 percent of its workforce to focus on its ‘largest growth opportunities,’ which includes its effort to challenge Nvidia.
The Register
AMD grabs a quarter of x86 market with desktop gains, but server growth slows
AMD now accounts for 25 percent of all x86 processor shipments, but only made a slight increase in the past quarter against industry leader Intel in servers – the main gains came from the desktop ...