Forward-looking: The “AI server” moniker defines a new type of data center product, which makes extensive use of GPUs and other specialized processors to accelerate AI and generative AI-based workloads. Demand for such AI servers is growing exponentially, and Foxconn is
Read More about Foxconn says the AI server market will increase fourfold in four yearsTech giants Amazon, Apple, and Samsung could be major investors in Arm’s IPO
What just happened? Chip designer Arm is all set to go public with a listing on the NASDAQ stock exchange in New York in September. Ahead of the expected IPO, reports suggest that some of the biggest tech companies in the
Read More about Tech giants Amazon, Apple, and Samsung could be major investors in Arm’s IPOBig Tech coalition challenges Google and Apple’s monopoly on maps
In context: Founded in December 2022 by Amazon (AWS), Meta, Microsoft, and former geolocation giant TomTom, the Overture Maps Foundation aims to create a reliable, easy-to-use, and interoperable open map dataset for third-party companies and developers. The project’s first “alpha” release
Read More about Big Tech coalition challenges Google and Apple’s monopoly on mapsHuawei wants to jump back into the global 5G phone race
Why it matters: Huawei is one of the companies that have seen an outsized impact as a result of the US-China trade war. However, the company has a plan to renter the global 5G smartphone race by developing chipmaking tools and
Read More about Huawei wants to jump back into the global 5G phone raceWhere does Intel stand today? Three key challenges ahead
Editor’s take: Intel faces three sequential problems: fix manufacturing, start designing competitive products again, and win some customers for IFS (Intel Foundry Services). Then they have to keep all that going. Not impossible, just very challenging. We’ve been receiving many inquiries
Read More about Where does Intel stand today? Three key challenges aheadApple’s Quest for Trademarking Images of… Apples?
Apple is known for its aggressive trademark protection, but its rearmost attempt to trademark images of apples has raised eyebrows. The tech mammoth has been trying to trademark delineations of apples in Switzerland since 2017. It has also filed analogous
Read More about Apple’s Quest for Trademarking Images of… Apples?Twitter’s Head of Trust and Safety Resigns
As Twitter continues to combat misinformation on the platform, the company is reportedly losing a key executive in charge of content moderation. Twitter’s head of trust and safety, Ella Irwin, tells(Opens in a new window) Reuters that she resigned from the company, hours after
Read More about Twitter’s Head of Trust and Safety ResignsIntel-manufactured Nvidia GPUs could be coming soon
What just happened? Last year, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang confirmed that the company was in talks with Intel to manufacture its future GPUs. Now, in a media event in Taipei, Taiwan, Huang claimed that early test results for an Intel-manufactured Nvidia
Read More about Intel-manufactured Nvidia GPUs could be coming soonSamsung overtakes Apple in phone shipments as the market dips again
In brief: The smartphone market just saw its fifth straight quarter of decline in what has become a familiar picture of phone makers experiencing the sting of low demand for their products. Changing consumer priorities made for a horror holiday quarter,
Read More about Samsung overtakes Apple in phone shipments as the market dips againApple drops a major hint that new desktop Mac models are coming soon
iMac? Mac Studio? Mac Pro? With Apple’s annual WWDC 2023 event rapidly approaching, there’s a lot of speculation about new hardware that could be unveiled alongside the usual wealth of software updates – and a major hint in that direction has now
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