AMD has forecast stronger-than-expected full-year and second-quarter revenue, sending its shares higher.
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Intel’s latest focus on making chips to meet rising demand will give AMD a chance to build a greater foothold in the segment, analysts said.
Semiconductor designer AMD said on Tuesday it would buy Xilinx in a US$35-billion all-stock deal, intensifying its battle with Intel in the data centre chip market.
AMD is in advanced discussions to buy Xilinx in a takeover that could be valued at US$30-billion, according to people familiar with the matter.
Huawei Technologies, the Chinese technology giant barred from doing business with US suppliers, is finding a way around the strict limits imposed by the Trump administration.
The Donald Trump administration widened its dragnet this week on Chinese companies in a push to slow China’s technological advances. But the plan might backfire.
US President Donald Trump’s move to put Huawei on an export blacklist threatens to shake the entire telecommunications industry.
The news that Google and US chip makers have frozen the supply of critical software and components to Huawei will have severe consequences for businesses and consumers, including in South Africa. By Duncan McLeod.