Arm moves into chips as boss says firm will deliver silicon Tech Arm boss Rene Haas said the company will begin delivering its own chips as it unveiled its first in-house processor, marking a major shift for the UK tech firm. “With today’s announcement, we’re expanding the Arm compute platform to include delivery of production silicon with our Arm AGI CPU,” Haas said. The Cambridge-based company revealed [...]
AMD’s AI push gathers pace behind Nvidia Tech Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) delivered another quarter of rapid growth, beating Wall Street forecasts on both revenue and earnings. Yet its shares tumbled as investors weighed what the numbers mean in a market still dominated by chip giant Nvidia. The chipmaker reported fourth quarter revenue of $10.27bn (£7.49bn), up 34 per cent year on year, [...]
Wealth app Chip raises £17m as Channel 4 backs TV push Media Channel 4 Ventures has invested in UK wealth app Chip as part of a £17m funding round, marking the company’s first institutional backing and funding a major TV advertising campaign, City AM can reveal. The round values Chip at £208m and combines £6m of media-for-equity from Channel 4 Ventures, with £11m raised from more than 9,000 retail investors [...]
Universal partners with Nvidia to prevent AI ‘slop’ in music January 7, 2026 Universal Music Group has struck a historical deal with AI chip giant Nvidia to “pioneer responsible AI for music discovery, creation, and engagement”, the companies announced on Tuesday. Combining Nvidia’s advanced AI infrastructure alongside Universal’s vast catalogue of tracks, the partnership aims to explore tools that elevate artist creativity, while ensuring copyright compliance and proper [...]
Nvidia pitches ‘thinking’ cars as UK EV sales soar January 6, 2026 Nvidia is betting that smarter software will drive the next phase of electric vehicle (EV) adoption, unveiling what its boss dubbed as the ‘ChatGPT moment’ for self-driving cars as UK EV sales hit record highs. Speaking at the yearly Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, tech titan and Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang revealed [...]
How OpenAI’s deal with AMD could change the AI chip market October 7, 2025 Techbehemoth and OpenAI yesterday struck a multi-billion-dollar partnership with chipmaker AMD, committing to purchase up to six gigawatts of the company’s next-generation processors to power new AI data centres. The deal, which will start with AMD’s new ‘MI450’ chip in the second half of 2026, marks a key step in OpenI’s strategy to diversify its [...]
Open AI and AMD challenge Nvidia with multibillion chip deal October 6, 2025 OpenAI has announced a multi-billion dollar deal with chip giant AMD to build large scale AI data centres – one of the most direct challenges to Nvidia’s dominance in the AI market to date. Under the partnership, OpenAI will buy six gigawatts of AMD’s next generation processors, starting with the MI450 chip launching in 2026. [...]
Exclusive: Nvidia boss tells China ‘We won’t operate where we’re not wanted’ September 17, 2025 Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang said he was “disappointed” with China’s internet regulator banning the country’s largest tech firms from buying Nvidia’s AI chips. The quasi-celebrity, leather jacket-wearing billionaire told City AM: “We could only be in service of a market if the country wants us to”. His response follows the Cyberspace Administration of China [...]
Nvidia stock dips despite record quarter as uncertainty spooks markets August 28, 2025 Nvidia’s earnings once again beat expectations last night, but the AI chipmaker’s shares slipped in after-hours trading due to ongoing uncertainty over China. The Silicon Valley-based group, now worth more than $4tn (£3.1tn) reported fiscal second-quarter revenue of $46.7bn, up 56 per cent year on year, with adjusted earnings per share of $1.05. Both figures came in [...]
Nvidia and AMD to pay US 15 per cent cut on China chip sales August 11, 2025 US chipmakers Nvidia and AMD have agreed to hand over 15 per cent of their Chinese revenues to Washington in exchange for the green light to resume sales of high-powered AI chips to the country, in what industry analysts have called an “unprecedented” arrangement. The deal, first reported by the Financial Times, applies to Nvidia’s [...]