Meta agrees to acquire up to 6GW of AMD Instinct GPUs in a deal valued at $100B+ that could see Meta own up to 10% of AMD; Meta plans to deploy 1GW in 2026
Meta agrees to acquire up to 6GW of AMD Instinct GPUs in a deal valued at $100B+ that could see Meta own up to 10% of AMD; Meta plans to deploy 1GW in 2026
The deal could result in Meta owning as much as 10% of AMD's stock as the chip maker seeks to challenge Nvidia
Lou Gerstner, a former IBM CEO and chairman credited with turning the company around, died at 83; IBM's market value rose from $29B to ~$168B during his tenure
Louis Gerstner, who took over International Business Machines Corp. when it was on its deathbed and resuscitated it as a technology industry leader, died Saturday.
OpenAI and AMD announce a deal in which OpenAI could take up to a 10% stake in AMD and deploy up to 6GW of Instinct GPUs over multiple years; AMD jumps 25%+
- OpenAI and AMD have reached a deal that could see Sam Altman's company take a 10% stake in the chipmaker
At a White House dinner, tech CEOs thanked Trump for promoting chip and AI investments, while Trump promised an easy energy permitting process for data centers
Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai and Sam Altman salute president's leadership on innovation as industry seeks his favor
Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Code.org, IBM, OpenAI, and other companies pledged new commitments for AI in education as part of Melania Trump's White House event
Teaching students AI literacy from an early age is key to American success, First Lady Melania Trump said at a White House event …
OpenAI releases gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, its first open-weight models since GPT-2; the smaller gpt-oss-20b can run locally on a device with 16GB+ of RAM
gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b push the frontier of open-weight reasoning models Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog : OpenAI's new open weight (Apache 2) models are really good...
Amazon plans to make OpenAI's new gpt-oss open-weight models available on Bedrock and SageMaker, the first time it has offered OpenAI's models to AWS customers
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Intel and AMD forge an x86 ecosystem advisory group to ensure a unified x86 instruction set architecture moving forward, amid competition from Arm and RISC-V
including @Microsoft, @Dell, @Lenovo and @HP—are joining their new advisory group to “shape the future of x86 and foster developer innovation.” https://www.crn.com/... @CRN Mark Ru...
AMD agrees to buy New Jersey-based ZT Systems, founded in 1994 to design and make servers, server racks, and other infrastructure, for $4.9B, closing in H1 2025
chipmaker strengthens AI ecosystem with ZT Systems' expertise in server design Josh Norem / ExtremeTech : AMD Acquires AI Infrastructure Company ZT Systems for $4.9 Billion Diana G...
AMD agrees to buy New Jersey-based ZT Systems, founded in 1994 to design and make servers, server racks, and other infrastructure, for $4.9B, closing in H1 2025
ZT Systems produces servers, other equipment used in data centers for artificial intelligence
AMD launches Instinct MI300X and MI300A AI accelerators and claims the MI300X delivers up to 1.6x more performance than Nvidia's H100 HGX in inference workloads
Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware :
Microsoft unveils Surface Laptop 4 with 13.5" and 15" displays, starting at $999 for AMD model and $1,299 for Intel, shipping April 15 in US, Canada, and Japan
Tom Warren / The Verge :
Microsoft unveils Surface Laptop 3 in $999+ 13.5-inch and $1,199+ AMD-powered 15-inch variants with USB-C, fast charging, and new colors, arriving October 22
Microsoft is introducing the third-generation of the Surface Laptop today. At its New York event, the company just took the wraps off …