Broadcom shares jump after chipmaker expands Google, Anthropic deals

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Jonathan Raa | Nurphoto | Getty Images Broadcom shares rose more than 6% on Tuesday, their second-best day of the year, after the chip designer announced it would produce future versions of artificial intelligence chips for Google, and signed an expanded deal with Anthropic. The pact with Anthropic will give the AI startup access to about […]


AI chipmaker Cerebras namedropped by Oracle, alongside Nvidia and AMD

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As AI chipmaker Cerebras angles for an eventual IPO, the company appears to have landed a significant cloud-computing customer: Oracle. On a conference call with analysts on Tuesday following Oracle’s quarterly earnings, Clay Magouyrk, one of the software vendor’s two CEOs, indicated that his company’s infrastructure includes Cerebras chips, alongside graphics processing units (GPUs) from […]


Dutch government takes control of Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia

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A close-up view of the Nexperia plant sign in Newport, Wales on April 1, 2022. Matthew Horwood | Getty Images News | Getty Images The Dutch government has taken control of Nexperia, a Chinese-owned semiconductor maker based in the Netherlands, in an extraordinary move to ensure a sufficient supply of its chips remains available in […]


Chipmaker TSMC says it has discovered potential trade secret leaks

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TSMC workers walk down a hallway in a chipmaking fab in Taiwan. The company is building three such plants in Arizona. TSMC Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. said on Tuesday that it had detected “unauthorized activities” that lead to the discovery of potential trade secret leaks. The world’s biggest semiconductor manufacturer told CNBC that it has […]


Shares in Chinese chipmaker SMIC drop nearly 7% after earnings miss

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A logo hangs on the building of the Beijing branch of Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) on December 4, 2020 in Beijing, China. Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty Images Shares of Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation, China’s largest contract chip maker, fell nearly 7% Friday after its first-quarter earnings missed estimates. After trading on […]


Broadcom, TSMC eye deals that would split storied chipmaker Intel: report

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Intel rivals Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. and Broadcom are each eyeing potential deals that would break the US chipmaking icon in two, the Wall Street Journal reported Saturday, citing people familiar with the matter. Broadcom has been closely examining Intel’s chip design and marketing business, the Journal reported, adding that the company had discussed a […]