By Stephen Nellis SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Lightmatter, a startup valued at $4.4 billion, on Monday released two pieces of technology aimed at speeding up the connections between artificial intelligence chips. Instead of moving information between computer chips as electrical signals, Lightmatter’s technology uses optical connections and what are known as silicon photonics to move…
By Arsheeya Bajwa and Zaheer Kachwala (Reuters) -Broadcom forecast quarterly revenue above Wall Street estimates on Thursday and predicted booming demand for its custom artificial intelligence chips in the next few years. Shares of the Palo Alto, California-based company were up 14% in aftermaket trade after CEO Hock Tan told investors on a conference call…
Spending on artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure has been solid in 2024, which is evident from the terrific demand for data center chips and server solutions that has been driving impressive growth in revenue and earnings for several companies. The good news for companies benefiting from the AI boom is that infrastructure spending in this area…
Graphics processing units (GPUs) have been Nvidia‘s (NASDAQ: NVDA) bread-and-butter business for a long, long time. The company initially made its name producing GPUs meant for deployment in personal computers (PCs) for gaming and content creation, before eventually striking gold with its data center GPUs that are now in red-hot demand thanks to artificial intelligence…