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Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)
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Chairman / President
Victor Wen-Ti Peng
CEO / Managing Director
Lisa Tzwu-Fang Su
CFO / Finance Director
Jean X.Hu
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Website
amd.com
Headquarters address
2485 Augustine Dr, Santa Clara, CA, United States
Stock Code
NASDAQ:AMD
Year founded
1969
AMD CEO Lisa Su. Photo: Reuters
Artificial intelligence

AMD CEO visits China, touts chip compatibility with DeepSeek models

The US semiconductor firm and main rival of Nvidia has been promoting its infrastructural support for DeepSeek’s AI models.

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TSMC pitches Nvidia, others about joint venture to run Intel foundry

Semiconductors

Nvidia, Broadcom test chips on Intel manufacturing process: sources

Artificial intelligence

DeepSeek founder skips Paris summit as China champions its AI

China’s academics tout the country’s contribution to global AI development, while its hottest start-up avoids the limelight.

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French President Emmanuel Macron delivers a speech at the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit at the Grand Palais in Paris on Tuesday. Photo: EPA-EFE
Amazon

Amazon challenges Nvidia with new AI chips, to be used by Apple

Amazon says it is able to connect a greater number of chips together than Nvidia, helping customers save cost.

Semiconductors

Intel CEO Gelsinger forced out as chip giant falls behind Nvidia

The company board has lost confidence in Gelsinger’s turnaround plan and told him he could retire or be removed, a source says.

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Artificial intelligence

AMD cuts 1,000 staff to focus on AI chips in battle with Nvidia

The company’s data centre segment has performed vastly better than its personal computer and gaming units this year.

AMD CEO Lisa Su holds a chip at the Computex forum in Taipei in June. Photo: Reuters
Semiconductors

Semiconductor firms ASML, AMD, Qualcomm reaffirm China commitment

They joined about 400 other firms at the Intelligent Industry & Information Technology exhibition, part of the 2024 CIIE trade fair in Shanghai.

Semiconductors

Intel set for sharp drop in quarterly revenue as chip maker struggles to recover

The once-iconic American semiconductor giant is expected to report this week an 8 per cent decline in quarterly revenue to US$13.02 billion.

Huawei

Huawei to step up AI ecosystem development despite US tech sanctions

‘In 2024 and over the next five years, Huawei will invest even more into ecosystem development,’ deputy chairman Eric Xu Zhijun said.

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Huawei Technologies aims to build artificial intelligence systems “that are accessible to every person, home and organisation”. Photo: Shutterstock
Artificial intelligence

Lenovo launches new AI-capable PCs powered by Intel, AMD and Qualcomm processors

The latest AI device portfolio from Lenovo reflects efforts by the global PC industry to boost its recovery this year.

Artificial intelligence-enabled devices are expected to help raise personal computer shipments and fuel an increase in average selling price. Photo: Lenovo
Semiconductors

Intel director Lip-Bu Tan exits board of struggling chip maker

The move follows Intel’s disastrous quarterly report earlier this month amid competition with rivals like Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices.

Video gaming

China’s Black Myth: Wukong mania lifts sales of Sony’s PS5 gaming console

The hit action role-playing game has prompted an increase in consumer spending on the mainland for video-gaming hardware.

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Artificial intelligence

AMD to buy server maker in US$4.9 billion challenge to Nvidia

AMD has its sights set on Nvidia, the runaway leader in the market for data centre gear needed to support AI computing.

An AMD logo seen on a computer. Photo: AP Photo
Artificial intelligence

Exclusive | Meet Yang Hongxia: the PolyU AI scientist who wants to change how LLMs are built

Yang Hongxia said she wants to change the existing resource-intensive process of training large language models into a decentralised, machine-learning paradigm.

Artificial intelligence scientist Yang Hongxia, said small AI models, once put together, can outperform the most advanced large language models in specific domains. Photo: Sina
Intel

Intel launches new chip to power Chinese carmakers’ in-vehicle AI initiatives

The company’s new Arc Graphics for Automotive discrete graphics processing unit is designed to power in-vehicle AI capabilities.

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Huawei

Huawei, semiconductor firm Wuhan Xinxin to develop high-bandwidth memory chips

Huawei’s high-bandwidth memory initiative reflects the growing global market for these chips, which are indispensable components in the computing infrastructure used for artificial intelligence projects.

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Semiconductors

US presses allies Japan and Netherlands to curb China’s AI chip progress

The United States aims to further restrict the ability of mainland China to produce the high-bandwidth memory chips needed for artificial intelligence development.

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US Under Secretary of Commerce for Industry and Security Alan Estevez will press his counterparts in Japan and the Netherlands to add fresh restrictions on China’s semiconductor sector. Photo: Shutterstock
Nvidia

Chinese promotion matches Nvidia graphics cards with Black Myth: Wukong game

The offbeat promotion reflects growing competition in the mainland graphics card market, where consumers are substituting Nvidia’s products with alternative made-in-China hardware.

Artificial intelligence

Intel CEO hits back after Nvidia CEO says rival’s chips not for AI era

Pat Gelsinger took a direct shot at claims by Nvidia chief Jensen Huang that traditional processors like Intel’s are running out of steam in the age of AI.

TSMC

TSMC’s new chairman affirms forecast of AI-fuelled chip market recovery in 2024

TSMC chairman and chief executive C C Wei stuck with previous projections for 10 per cent growth in the global semiconductor market this year, excluding the vast memory chip sector.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, which makes advanced chips for Nvidia and Apple, today sits at the heart of the global artificial intelligence boom. Photo: AP
Semiconductors

US slows AI chip exports to Middle East over concern on China access

Washington has delayed the issuing of export licences to Nvidia and AMD, partly over worries that Chinese companies could access AI chips through data centres in the Middle East.

The skyline of Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The US is delaying the issuing of AI chip export licences to Nvidia and AMD to the Middle East. Photo: EPA-EFE
Semiconductors

Nvidia’s rock-star CEO leads US chip bosses to Taiwan’s AI expo

Taiwan’s pre-eminence in semiconductors is at an all-time high, as the island welcomes Huang and the CEOs of AMD, Intel, Qualcomm and Arm Holdings to Computex 2024.

China economy

Opinion | The real reason for US, EU gripes about Chinese overcapacity

They are defensive because China threatens their dominance in advanced manufacturing, but fail to see how Chinese manufacturing helps the global energy transition and benefits Global South consumers.

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Huawei

Intel still sells to Huawei millions of dollars’ worth of advanced chips

The US chip giant still retains a Trump-era licence to sell advanced laptop CPUs to Huawei despite pressure on Biden to revoke the permission, sources say

The Huawei stand at the Mobile World Congress n Barcelona, Spain, last month. Photo: Reuters
Artificial intelligence

Nvidia’s move to curb CUDA on third-party hardware exposes China’s weak link

Nvidia’s warning to developers about running its CUDA software, a programming toolkit, on third-party graphic processing units has exposed another weak link in China’s quest for chip self-sufficiency.

People walk past the logo of Nvidia in Taipei, Taiwan, February 23, 2024. Photo: EPA-EFE
US-China tech war

US deems AMD AI chip tailored for China too powerful

AMD had hoped to get Washington’s approval to sell to Chinese customers its MI309 processor, which performs at a lower level than what the company sells globally.

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Semiconductors

Is Nvidia the next Tesla, as investors move from chasing EV to AI?

While Nvidia’s shares have added 66 per cent this year after more than tripling in 2023, Tesla shares are down more than half from their 2021 peak.

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