Samsung Electronics said on Tuesday that its operating profit surged more than 930% in the first quarter of 2024, driven by soaring demand for its servers, memory chips and […]
Google announces Axion, its first custom Arm-based data center processor
Google Cloud on Tuesday joined AWS and Azure in announcing its first custom-built Arm processor, dubbed Axion. Based on Arm’s Neoverse 2 designs, Google says its Axion instances […]
Here’s how Microsoft is providing a ‘good outcome’ for Inflection AI VCs, as Reid Hoffman promised
Exactly how much Microsoft is paying all the investors of Inflection AI as part its oddly structured deal to abscond with the cofounders, much of the staff, and […]
Nvidia’s next-gen AI chips are way more powerful and use a lot less energy
Nvidia’s new “Blackwell” chip might be the engine of the next wave of AI developments.
AI chip startup Groq forms new business unit, acquires Definitive Intelligence
Groq, a startup developing chips to run GenAI models faster than conventional hardware, has an eye toward the enterprise — and public sector. Today, Groq announced that it’s […]
How much are Nvidia’s rivals investing in startups? We investigated
Over the past couple of years, Nvidia, by far the largest AI chipmaker, has ramped up its investments in startups that propel it deeper into the AI space. […]
Bitcoin jumped and Coinbase’s app crashed, while Aptos eyes Hong Kong and Telegram rolls out rewards with TON
Welcome to TechCrunch Crypto, formerly known as Chain Reaction. To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important crypto stories delivered to your inbox every Thursday at […]
India approves $15B in semiconductor plant investments
India has approved allocating up to $15.2 billion (1.26 trillion Indian rupees) to build three new semiconductor plants, including its first semiconductor fab facility — part of the […]
Meta’s Zuckerberg woos big tech in Asia to double down on AI chips
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who is touring Asia countries this week, said in a meeting with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol on Thursday that Meta wants to […]
SambaNova now offers a bundle of generative AI models
SambaNova, an AI chip startup that’s raised over $1.1 billion in VC money to date, is gunning for OpenAI — and rivals — with a new generative AI […]