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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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MLPerf 6.0: NVIDIA Sweeps New Benchmarks, AMD MI355X Within 30% on Select Tests
Apr 7, 2026Jensen Huang's 30-Year TSMC Battle: From 3D Graphics to AI GPUs
Apr 23, 2026AMD Backs UALink Open Interconnect to Challenge NVIDIA NVLink in AI
Apr 17, 2026McKinsey: AI Infrastructure Value Creation Outpaces Business Capture
Apr 6, 2026Meta Deploys Millions of Amazon Graviton CPUs for AI Agents
Apr 24, 2026Meta's $100 Billion AMD Bet: The AI Infrastructure Arms Race Reaches New Heights
Feb 24, 2026Aehr Test Systems Lands $41M AI Chip Order; H2 Bookings Top $92M
Apr 16, 2026UALink 2.0 Spec Finalized, Aims to Challenge NVLink for AI Clusters
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