Intel Acquires Silicon Mobility SAS to Accelerate Software-Defined Vehicles


The chip industry is witnessing a historic moment. NVIDIA has agreed to acquire shares of Intel for $5 billion as part of a broader agreement to jointly develop multiple generations of data center and PC products. This deal will completely change the semiconductor competitive landscape. NVIDIA will purchase Intel stock at $23.28 per share, slightly below the previous trading price. According to Reuters, this transaction will make NVIDIA one of the largest shareholders of Intel, holding approximately 4%. After the news was released, Intel's stock surged by 30% during early trading on Thursday. The two companies will collaborate through
NVIDIA and Intel announced a strategic partnership to develop multi-gen x86 processors for gaming PCs and data centers, with NVIDIA investing $5B for a 5% stake in Intel. The collaboration integrates Intel's x86 expertise with NVIDIA's AI acceleration via NVLink technology.....
Intel unveils Jaguar Shores, a new AI chip with 92.5mm×92.5mm package, 18A process, and HBM4 memory, designed for high-performance computing.....
On June 30, Baidu officially open-sourced its latest ERNIE Bot Large Model 4.5 series, which includes a total of 10 models, including a mixture-of-experts (MoE) model with 47B and 3B activation parameters, as well as a dense model with 0.3B parameters. This open-source release allows developers to use these powerful models for free and provides pre-trained weights and inference code, making it easy for developers to apply them in various scenarios. During this release, Intel also demonstrated its strong technical support. By leveraging the OpenVINO toolkit, Intel provided efficient optimization for the ERNIE Bot Large Model.
Recently, Intel announced that its Data Center and AI (DCAI) business head, Justin Hotard, will officially leave on April 1 to take over as CEO of Nokia. Hotard has held the position of senior vice president and general manager at Intel for only one year, during which he has contributed to the stable development of the company's DCAI business. He expressed his gratitude to the Intel team for their efforts over the past year on LinkedIn and wished them greater success in their future endeavors.