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Oracle Said to Buy Billion of Nvidia Chips for OpenAI’s US Data Center

Oracle Said to Buy $40 Billion of Nvidia Chips for OpenAI’s US Data Center

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Oracle will spend around $40 billion on Nvidia’s higher-performance chips to power OpenAI’s new U.S. data center, the Financial Times reported on Friday. The data center, situated in Abilene, Texas, is part of the U.S. Stargate Project, led by top AI firms in the country, to boost America’s heft in the artificial intelligence industry amid heating global competition. The cloud service provider will purchase around 400,000 of Nvidia’s most powerful GB200 chips and lease the computing power to OpenAI, the report said, citing several people familiar with the matter. OpenAI and Oracle did not immediately respond to Reuters’ requests for comment, while an Nvidia spokesperson declined to comment. The data center is expected to be fully operational by mid-next year, and Oracle has agreed to lease the site for 15 years, the report said. JPMorgan has provided a bulk of the debt financing across two loans totaling $9.6 billion, while the site’s owners, Crusoe and U.S. investment firm Blue Owl Capital, have invested around $5 billion in cash, the FT report added. The data center …

Indian Startup Unveils System to Run AI Without Advanced Chips

Indian Startup Unveils System to Run AI Without Advanced Chips

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Ziroh Labs, an artificial intelligence startup operating in India, collaborated with researchers at the country’s premier technology school to design an affordable system that it says can run large AI models without requiring advanced computing chips from the likes of Nvidia. The company’s framework, called Kompact AI, was developed in partnership with the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. Ziroh Labs said the platform enables AI to run on the central processing units (CPUs) found in everyday computing devices as opposed to the coveted, and costly, graphics processing units (GPUs) that have been the linchpin of the artificial intelligence boom. A growing number of AI developers have touted efficiency gains that let them use fewer chips in the months following the viral success of China’s DeepSeek, which purportedly built a competitive AI model for a fraction of the cost of its US peers. Ziroh Labs’ approach primarily focuses on the process of inference, or operating AI systems after they’ve been trained. Ziroh Labs said it can optimize leading AI models to run on personal computers. In …

OpenAI’s Weekly Active Users Surpass 400 Million

OpenAI’s Weekly Active Users Surpass 400 Million

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ChatGPT developer OpenAI’s weekly active users surged past 400 million in February, a company spokesperson told Reuters on Thursday, highlighting rapid growth in the adoption of artificial intelligence tools. The Microsoft-backed startup had 300 million weekly active users in December. Its paying business users also crossed 2 million in February, more than doubling from its last update in September. The upbeat numbers come weeks after China’s DeepSeek launched an AI model it said could match or even outperform Western rivals at a fraction of the cost, stirring doubts about US dominance in the generative AI space. But a surge in demand for DeepSeek since then has caused outages at the small startup. There have also been questions around how DeepSeek was able to obtain Nvidia’s H800 chips, used to train AI models, even though Washington had banned their exports to China. OpenAI reported a twofold increase in developer traffic for its reasoning models over the last six months and a fivefold surge for its o3 model since its launch in late January. The news about …

Apple Working With Broadcom to Develop First AI Server Chip: Report

Apple Working With Broadcom to Develop First AI Server Chip: Report

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Apple is developing a new server chip that is designed to enable support for features powered by artificial intelligence (AI) in partnership with semiconductor manufacturer Broadcom, according to a report. The company previously announced that it would offload processing for some of its Apple Intelligence features to the cloud, but it has yet to utilise its own processor tailored for AI applications. Apple has also rolled out support for additional Apple Intelligence features on iOS, iPadOS and Mac computers, including ChatGPT integration with Siri. Apple Reportedly Developing ‘Baltra’ Server Chip for AI Processing Citing three persons familiar with the company’s plans, The Information reports that Apple is working on a server chip for AI applications. The iPhone maker already produces its own processors for its devices, which offer some on-device AI features, and the new in-house chip could be used to perform AI processing on Apple’s servers. Apple’s new server chip for AI processing is codenamed Baltra, according to the publication, and the companies are said to be working on the networking technology used by …

New Nvidia AI chips overheating in servers | Technology News

New Nvidia AI chips overheating in servers | Technology News

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Nvidia’s new Blackwell AI chips, which have already faced delays, have encountered problems with accompanying servers that overheat, causing some customers to worry they will not have enough time to get new data centers up and running, the Information reported on Sunday. The Blackwell graphics processing units overheat when connected together in server racks designed to hold up to 72 chips, the report said, citing sources familiar with the issue. The chipmaker has asked its suppliers to change the design of the racks several times to resolve overheating problems, according to Nvidia employees who have been working on the issue, as well as customers and suppliers with knowledge of the issue, the report said without naming the suppliers. “Nvidia is working with leading cloud service providers as an integral part of our engineering team and process. The engineering iterations are normal and expected,” a company spokesperson said in a statement to Reuters. In March, Nvidia unveiled Blackwell chips and had earlier said they would ship in the second quarter before encountering delays, potentially affecting customers …

TSMC to Suspend Production of Advanced AI Chips for China From November 11: Report

TSMC to Suspend Production of Advanced AI Chips for China From November 11: Report

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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) has notified Chinese chip design companies that it is suspending production of their most advanced AI chips from Monday, the Financial Times reported, citing three people familiar with the matter. TSMC, the world’s largest contract chipmaker, told Chinese customers it would no longer manufacture AI chips at advanced process nodes of 7 nanometres or smaller, FT said on Friday. The U.S. has imposed a raft of measures aimed at restricting the shipment of advanced GPU chips – which enable AI – to China to hobble its artificial intelligence capabilities, which Washington fears could be used to develop bioweapons and launch large-scale cyberattacks. Earlier this month, the U.S. imposed a $500,000 penalty on New York-based GlobalFoundries for shipping chips without authorization to an affiliate of blacklisted Chinese chipmaker SMIC. Any future supplies of the advanced AI chips by TSMC to Chinese customers would be subject to an approval process likely to involve Washington, according to the FT report. “TSMC does not comment on market rumour. TSMC is a law-abiding company and …

IFA 2024: AI gadgets and concept devices to headline Europe’s biggest tech show | Technology News

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When thousands flock to Berlin this week to attend the Internationale Funkausstellung (IFA), artificial intelligence will be woven into presentations, booths, laptops, smartphones, home appliances, and even car dashboards. This year, AI will dominate the chatter, as companies big and small unveil new AI-powered products and share a common vision for AI at Europe’s biggest and one of the oldest consumer electronics shows in the world. But behind all the glitz and gadgetry are increasing calls for regulating AI and the watchful eyes of regulators ensuring responsible AI development and deployment. AI has been the central theme at large tech conventions this year, from the CES in Las Vegas and the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona to the annual developer conferences of Apple, Google, and Microsoft. Artificial intelligence will once again be on full display when IFA kicks off on Friday, September 6. “We have seen a wave of AI product launches and announcements, but for many, AI use cases in these products remain nebulous,” Kane McKenna, a consumer tech industry analyst at CCS Insight …

Samsung Sees Smartphone and Tech Devices Demand Recovering in 2024 After Record Chip Loss

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Samsung Electronics flagged a continued recovery in memory chips and tech demand in 2024, after reporting a 34 percent drop in fourth-quarter profit despite a memory price rebound as consumer demand remained weak in many businesses. The world’s biggest maker of memory chips said it expected mobile and PC makers to place more, better chips in devices as use of artificial intelligence expands, while the need to replace older servers would also aid a gradual demand recovery. “In 2024, the memory business expects the market to continue to recover despite various potential obstacles, including interest rate policies and geopolitical issues,” Samsung said in a statement. Samsung said operating profit fell to KRW 2.8 trillion ($2.11 billion or roughly Rs. 17,522 crore) in October-December, versus KRW 4.3 trillion (roughly Rs. 26,790 crore) a year earlier. For the full year, its chip business swung to a record loss of KRW 14.9 trillion in 2023 (roughly Rs. 92,845 crore) from a KRW 23.8 trillion (roughly Rs. 1,48,273 crore) profit a year earlier, hit by an unprecedented downturn caused by weak …

Intel Announces Core Ultra, Xeon Processors for PCs and Servers in Bid to Join AI Gold Rush

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Intel, the biggest maker of personal computer processors, announced new chips for PCs and data centres that the company hopes will give it a bigger slice of the booming market for artificial intelligence hardware. The lineup includes updated Xeon server chips — the second overhaul of that processor in less than a year — that use less electricity while boosting performance and memory, the company said in a statement Thursday. Intel’s Ultra Core chips for laptops and desktop computers, meanwhile, will let PCs process AI functions directly. Intel’s new product with the most to prove may be the Gaudi 3, the latest installment of a line that competes with Nvidia Corp.’s industry-leading H100. These chips — known as AI accelerators — help companies develop chatbots and other rapidly proliferating services. Gaudi 3 is on schedule for release in 2024, and Intel said that it will outperform the H100. Intel shares rallied as much as 5.6 percent in New York trading following the announcement, outpacing a 3.1 percent gain by the Philadelphia Stock Exchange Semiconductor Index. …