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AMD designs CPUs, GPUs, and data-center accelerators, competing with Intel and Nvidia across consumer and enterprise computing markets.
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SK hynix's Solidigm is adding a contract SSD site in Taiwan, home of the firms that ship over 90% of AI servers, with drives delivered from December. Using a contractor lets it sell into NAND prices eight times last year's without putting fab money on the island.
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Sony's new QSSR brings AI upscaling built with AMD to the base PS5, starting with two first-party games, Marvel's Wolverine and Ghost of Yotei. How far it spreads now depends on other studios, and Sony's graphics engineer puts the work at a few days of tuning for a game that already runs PSSR.
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Valve's Timur Kristóf moved AMD's GCN 1.0/1.1 Radeons onto the AMDGPU kernel driver, opening RADV Vulkan and a roughly 30% speedup on decade-old cards. AMD has invested little in these cards for years, so their kernel upkeep now depends almost entirely on one engineer on Valve's payroll.
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TSMC is weighing a Texas campus of up to six $20 billion fabs that reportedly hinges on a 35% CHIPS Act tax credit expiring at the end of 2026. At $7 billion a fab, the credit lets Congress set about a third of the price before TSMC's board has voted.
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September payrolls of 29,000, against an 84,000 consensus, lifted the Nasdaq 1.2% on Friday and turned a losing week into a 0.45% gain. Every major index was down through Thursday, so the AI-led advance depends on the Fed staying on hold.
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Bull spent 80 million euros doubling its Angers factory's output from six supercomputer racks a month to 12. The larger line lets it build France's 94-rack Alice Recoque and Finland's LUMI-AI at once, something executives said the old factory could not do.
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Sam Altman called Cerebras a close partner after its stock fell nearly 20% in a week on a report that GPT-6.1 Sol's Ultrafast mode runs on Nvidia. Insider shares unlocked the same week. The drop prices fresh supply as well as doubt over OpenAI's appetite.
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Volantis, a San Francisco chip startup, closed an $88 million Series A to replace the electrical links between AI chips and memory with optical ones. Its A-1 system, promised to customers in 2027, puts a date on the bet that memory, more than compute, now limits AI inference.
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Cerebras says splitting inference stages across chip types gave 5x more throughput from the same number of its systems without slowing token generation. Because the count covers only Cerebras hardware, the figure does not yet show what a mixed-chip fleet costs per unit of work.
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Microsoft will pitch AI that runs on the PC itself at its October 7 event while the RTX Spark Surface Laptop Ultra still lacks a price and ship date. Windows teams due for a refresh have good reason to hold orders until both are public.
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OpenAI runs its Jalapeño ASIC on AMD EPYC Turin hosts with 1.5TB of memory each, chosen over Nvidia's Vera because Vera is less mature. Richard Ho tied the call to one program's schedule and a first-generation chip, so it says little about x86 against Arm.
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AMD is buying Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for about $8.2 billion and making Li its chief scientist. The chipmaker says workloads like the lab's will shape its chip roadmap, a claim that matters most to teams training robots in simulation.
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Anthropic has committed at least $518 billion to compute over a decade, about 80% of it non-cancelable, Reuters reported from its IPO prospectus. Most of that sits with Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Broadcom, whose risk is now whether one customer can keep paying into the 2030s.
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Leaked AMD drivers and shipping records show a semi-custom 'Gainsborough' chip on TSMC N3P, with test hardware already shipped for validation. Its tie to a Steam Deck 2 rests mostly on a Final Fantasy codename, so buyers deciding whether to wait for Valve have little more than a name and a shipping record.
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AMD agreed to buy Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for about $8.2 billion in stock as GPU suppliers move into robotics model work. Robotics teams now have to decide how much of their data and failed experiments a compute vendor gets to see.
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VUSec disclosed Branch Target Reuse, a Spectre-v2 attack on JIT engines whose Linux exploit leaks memory at 8 bytes a second. It bypassed every enabled mitigation, and the kernel's fix had already shipped in July.
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Tom's Hardware found Gears of War E-Day pins CPUs at 80-90% and runs 42% faster on a Ryzen 7 9800X3D than a Ryzen 5 7600X at 1080p High. The gap holds only while a fast GPU and moderate settings leave the processor as the limit.
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HPE booked a $1.2 billion Vultr order, its first for AMD's Helios platform, and raised its fiscal 2027 networking growth outlook. Executives say supply now limits sales, so the test is whether HPE can turn backlog into revenue at the higher margins it promises after the Juniper deal.
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HPE now expects networking revenue to grow in the high teens to low 20s percent in fiscal 2027, up from the 14% to 17% it guided on its last earnings call. For enterprise buyers, the plan leans on AI data center racks sold whole and reaches campus accounts through a sales force that sells the full catalog.
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Analysts expect TSMC to report $45.8 billion of third-quarter revenue on October 15, the top of its own $44.6-45.8 billion guidance. With a match already expected, Nvidia, Broadcom and AMD holders will learn more from the margin and the fourth-quarter outlook.
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