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NVIDIA paying half the capital expenditure to expand supplier fabs for critical thin-film material.
Announced Nemotron 3 Nano Omni, an open multimodal model processing video, audio, images, and text.
Nvidia invests $2 billion in Marvell Technology for NVLink Fusion interconnect development
Nvidia trained a billion-parameter LLM without backpropagation or full-precision weights, using zero gradients.
Open-sourced Kimono, a motion diffusion model for humanoid robots
Expanded partnership with Google Cloud to advance agentic and physical AI infrastructure
AMD joins as a founding member of the UALink Consortium to challenge NVIDIA's NVLink dominance.
AMD's AI Group published a detailed GitHub analysis of Claude Code's behavior, analyzing 17,871 thinking blocks and 234,760 tool calls.
Positioned as potential beneficiary of AI value shift to hardware
Issued Meta a performance-based warrant for up to 10% of company tied to $600 share price milestone
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UALink 2.0 Spec Finalized, Aims to Challenge NVLink for AI Clusters
Apr 20, 2026McKinsey: AI Infrastructure Value Creation Outpaces Business Capture
Apr 6, 2026MLPerf 6.0: NVIDIA Sweeps New Benchmarks, AMD MI355X Within 30% on Select Tests
Apr 7, 2026Aehr Test Systems Lands $41M AI Chip Order; H2 Bookings Top $92M
Apr 16, 2026AMD Backs UALink Open Interconnect to Challenge NVIDIA NVLink in AI
Apr 17, 2026Meta Deploys Millions of Amazon Graviton CPUs for AI Agents
Apr 24, 2026Jensen Huang's 30-Year TSMC Battle: From 3D Graphics to AI GPUs
Apr 23, 2026Meta's $100 Billion AMD Bet: The AI Infrastructure Arms Race Reaches New Heights
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