Microprocessors

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Xilinx Baidu Edge Board
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AMD Closes $49 Billion Acquisition of Xilinx—Largest Chip Deal Ever

Feb. 17, 2022
AMD said the deal brings it to more than 15,000 engineers and will significantly expand the scale of its research and development.
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Dreamstime Mobile Stock
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Surging Chip Sales Lift Qualcomm as It Moves on from Apple

Feb. 7, 2022
The company said that it would see "incremental improvements" to its supply throughout the year thanks in part to its dual-sourcing strategy for some chips.
Mobileye
Mobileye Eye Q Ultra Promo
Automotive

Inside Mobileye's EyeQ Ultra Chip for Future Self-Driving Cars

Jan. 18, 2022
Mobileye CEO Amnon Shashua said that, while it looks less potent than chips from rivals Qualcomm and NVIDIA, the EyeQ Ultra chip has more than enough computing power to control...
Microsoft
Microsoft Data Centers Promo
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Microsoft Poaches Key Apple Engineer to Work on Server Chips

Jan. 14, 2022
The departure is a blow to Apple, which recently lost another top chip engineer, Jeff Wilcox, to Intel.
Apple
Apple M1 Pro M1 Max M1 Family Promo
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Intel Hires Top Apple Engineer Overseeing M1 Chips For Macs

Jan. 12, 2022
Unless its engineering team hits delays, 2022 is the year Apple plans to completely push Intel out of its Mac lineup, even ousting it from its Mac Pro desktop, which currently...
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Technology Giants to Step Up Chip Design Ambitions in 2022

Jan. 11, 2022
If 2021 is any indication, 2022 will see tech giants take even greater strides in custom chip design.
Intel
Intel 3rd Gen Xeon Scalable Wafer 3
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Intel Proposes New Path for Moore's Law With 3D Stacked Transistors

Dec. 16, 2021
Intel's Component Research division keeps its research and development pipeline full by collaborating with its businesses to anticipate future needs and partnering with U.S. labs...
NVIDIA,
Nvidia Cambridge 1 Gpu Closeup
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NVIDIA's Ambitions for Arm In Peril After FTC Moves to Block Deal

Dec. 9, 2021
Industry analysts have warned for months the deal would likely fall apart after backlash from NVIDIA rivals and Arm partners. But the FTC’s attempt to block the deal makes it ...
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亚马逊推出新引力子Server CPU in Challenge to Intel

Dec. 1, 2021
Graviton3 signals the cloud computing giant wants to bring more competition to the server CPU market. AWS has said Graviton-backed cloud services cost significantly less than ...
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Dreamstime Chip Manufacturing
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Samsung Plans to Build $17 Billion Chip Plant in Texas by 2024

Nov. 30, 2021
Kinam Kim, CEO of Samsung's electronic device solutions division, said the Texas fab will help it serve the needs of its customers and “contribute to the stability of the global...
Baidu