India will begin trials of its first homemade graphic processing units before the end of this year, two senior officials familiar with the matter said, crossing a milestone in the development of components at the heart of artificial intelligence (AI) systems. The chips will be general-purpose GPUs, or GPGPUs, with the potential use across a…
The scheme, which will run over several years, will support companies across 30 semiconductor and 30 electronics categories, the people cited above said on the condition of anonymity. The incentives will be given based on value of capital investments (capex) as well as turnover of companies. The idea is to create an ecosystem that encourages…
Alphabet-owned Google is planning to tie up with Taiwan’s chip maker MediaTek to design and produce the next generation of its artificial intelligence (AI) chips Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), the Information reported on Monday. The AI chips are expected to be produced next year. The technology giant chose MediaTek partly because the Taiwanese company has…
New Delhi: India unveiled its library of non-personal data sets, called AI Kosh, to help companies build large language models (LLMs), the latest step by the Centre to help scale up the growth of artificial intelligence (AI) in the country. AI Kosh will also be used to give startups approvals to get access to the…
In a small shop in the eastern Chinese city of Hefei, one of the rarest pieces of technology in the world is on display. The quantum computer in the showroom of Origin, a Chinese startup, looks ready to be plucked from the shelf and fired up. Only 20 such devices are produced globally each year….
Trying to force a partnership between Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and Intel Corp would be a wildly complex ordeal. Already, the reported request of the Trump administration for TSMC to take a controlling stake in Intel’s US factories is facing valid questions about feasibility from all sides. Washington likely won’t support a foreign company…
Intel Corp. shares were trading over 8 per cent on Friday, January 17, as media reports emerged that the chipmaking giant is a potential acquisition target. Intel Corp. shares were trading 8.21 per cent higher at $21.29 as of 11:38 a.m. (EST), compared to $19.67 at the previous US market close. The company’s shares jumped…
Consumer Electronic Show (CES) 2025 has completed two days of revolutionary launches and announcements from top global companies and brands. This is one of the biggest tech events as companies showcase their new innovations and plans for the future. While experiencing new technology on the ground could be quite thrilling, but catching up on news…
New Delhi: If Bhavish Aggarwal, founder of now-listed Ola Electric, is known to dream big, his newest ambition is audacious by even his standards: to build “India’s first AI (artificial intelligence) chips” in four years. Such a plan would thrust Aggarwal, who is likened to Elon Musk for his public persona, into an industry with…
In the heated battle between Microsoft, Google and a clutch of startups for early leadership in artificial intelligence, one name that’s conspicuously missing is IBM’s. Indeed, its absence from all major technological developments of the past two decades belies its status as a tech titan of a previous age and the most admired corporation in…
