Beijing to push subsidies for local firms to buy China-made chips to shore up city’s computing infrastructure

Beijing to push subsidies for local firms to buy China-made chips to shore up city’s computing infrastructure

In a draft policy document published on Wednesday, the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Economy and Information Technology said the city will provide an undisclosed amount of subsidies to help local firms buy graphics processing units (GPUs) made by domestic manufacturers to “expedite the supply of controllable intelligent computing resources”. The amount of subsidy provided to …

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Chinese tech giant Lenovo boosts AI efforts with new servers, professional computers powered by Nvidia GPUs and software

Chinese tech giant Lenovo boosts AI efforts with new servers, professional computers powered by Nvidia GPUs and software

Lenovo Group has unveiled a series of servers and computers powered by technology from US chip designer Nvidia, in the Chinese computer giant’s latest push to bring artificial intelligence (AI) solutions to businesses and cloud service providers. Lenovo said it has added two new Nvidia graphics-processing-unit (GPU) systems to its AI server series, ThinkSystem. The …

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CEOs of Intel, OpenAI chat about future of AI and ‘mind-boggling’ need for chips

CEOs of Intel, OpenAI chat about future of AI and ‘mind-boggling’ need for chips

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Two tech CEOs scrambling to produce more of the sophisticated chips needed for artificial intelligence met for a brainstorming session Wednesday while the booming market’s early leader reported another quarter of eye-popping growth. Intel INTC , a Silicon Valley pioneer that has been struggling in recent years, laid out its plans …

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Nvidia Earnings Expected to Show AI Chip Market Domination

Nvidia Earnings Expected to Show AI Chip Market Domination

Nvidia is scheduled to announce its fourth-quarter earnings following the close of the U.S. market on Wednesday (Feb. 21), and analysts expect AI chips to be vital to the company’s trajectory. Investors will closely examine remarks from Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang for insights into the sustainability of the company’s substantial growth. In the last year, …

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Nvidia discloses positions in SoundHound AI, Arm — and these other stocks

Nvidia discloses positions in SoundHound AI, Arm — and these other stocks

Published: Feb. 14, 2024 at 7:16 p.m. ET Investors were getting a peek Wednesday at where fund managers have made their recent bets, as those managers released the required quarterly reports on their holdings. But Wednesday also brought a look at investments made by some public companies, including chip powerhouse Nvidia Corp. NVDA, which joined …

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Nvidia is ‘clear beneficiary’ of Meta’s AI spending rush. Its stock is climbing.

Nvidia is ‘clear beneficiary’ of Meta’s AI spending rush. Its stock is climbing.

Nvidia Corp. is the “clear beneficiary” of Meta Platforms Inc.’s rampant spending on artificial intelligence, according to an analyst. The Facebook parent company now expects to spend $30 billion to $37 billion on capital expenditures this year, whereas it was projecting $30 billion to $35 billion previously. The new “outlook reflects our evolving understanding of …

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