Morning Overview on MSN

New tool automates key steps in genome sequencing analysis

A Snakemake-based pipeline called Pipeasm automates key steps of genome assembly, from raw read trimming through scaffolding ...
Android

Meizu Steps Back from the Smartphone Market Amid Rising Chip Costs and Competition

Meizu is reportedly preparing to exit the smartphone market due to fierce competition in China and rising memory chip costs. The company plans to shift focus toward AI software and its Flyme operating ...
Engadget

Qualcomm's Snapdragon Wear Elite chip is made for smartwatches and AI devices

Qualcomm's Snapdragon Elite chips are reserved for the best Android phones and laptops, and now the company has introduced the first in the Elite series for wearables. The Snapdragon Wear Elite ...
The Verge

Qualcomm’s new chip is geared toward wearable AI gadgets

Pins, pendants, and longer battery life are on Qualcomm’s mind. Pins, pendants, and longer battery life are on Qualcomm’s mind. is a senior reporter and author of the Optimizer newsletter. She has ...
Forbes

Chip Innovation, AI Enabled Design And Training Can Enable AI Buildout

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. At the ISSCC Plenary sessions on Monday February 16 Dr. Rick Tsai, CEO of MediaTech spoke ...
Wall Street Journal

The AI Chip War You Didn’t See Coming

This is an edition of the WSJ AI & Business newsletter, a weekly digest to help you make sense of AI’s impact on business with news, insights and data from our global team of technology journalists.
The Motley Fool

AMD's MI450 Chip Just Landed Its First Mega-Deal. Here's What Investors Should Know.

AMD announced a deal with Meta that could be worth as much as $100 billion over five years. The company also issued warrants that allow META to purchase up to 160 million shares of AMD stock, or about ...
Seeking Alpha

AI chip startup MatX raises $500M in race to compete with Nvidia

AI chip startup MatX has raised about $500M in a funding round led by Jane Street and Situational Awareness, founded by former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner. Other backers of the Series B ...
The New York Times

Intel Strikes Deal With a Chip Start-Up Its C.E.O. Invested In

A technical partnership embraces SambaNova Systems, which Intel’s chief, Lip-Bu Tan, helps lead as an investor and chairman. By Don Clark Reporting from San Francisco Intel, which has lagged in making ...
MarketWatch

Could these 6 non-AI chip stocks be the next leg of the AI boom?

After sending shares of memory-chip companies soaring, the artificial-intelligence trade could soon spotlight another area of the semiconductor industry: analog chips. The term “analog” covers a wide ...
Reuters

Chip startup Taalas raises $169 million to help build AI chips to take on Nvidia

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 19 (Reuters) - Toronto-based chip startup Taalas said on Thursday it had raised $169 million and has developed a chip capable of running artificial intelligence applications faster ...
The Drive

The Next Car Chip Shortage Is Coming. Blame AI

It came for that PC you’re building and, if you’re planning on buying a car in the near future, it’s arrived to ruin that, too. The global memory chip shortage has already impacted wide swaths of ...