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Don Clark

San Francisco

Freelance Writer at The New York Times

More than 40 years covering tech, now freelancing on chips and enterprise tech for the New York Times--and playing a lot of music. [email protected]

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  • 1 month ago | miamiherald.com | Don Clark

    SAN FRANCISCO -- SoftBank said Wednesday that it had agreed to pay $6.5 billion for the Silicon Valley chip startup Ampere Computing, doubling down on a bet that technology that originated in smartphones will come to dominate the world’s data centers. The deal also reflects the Japanese conglomerate’s belief that Ampere’s chips can begin to play a significant role in artificial intelligence, where Nvidia has reaped the most rewards.

  • 1 month ago | nytimes.com | Don Clark

    SoftBank said it would operate Ampere as a wholly owned subsidiary under its own name. The sale comes amid a flurry of deals and shifting alliances driven by a furious demand for the chips used to power A.I. applications such as OpenAI's ChatGPT. SoftBank, in particular, has announced a series of transactions in a bid to play a bigger role in the field.

  • 2 months ago | nytimes.com | Tripp Mickle |Don Clark

    The semiconductor pioneer has appointed Lip-Bu Tan, a well-known tech investor and executive, as its new leader. Lip-Bu Tan has a long history as an investor in Silicon Valley, one of view who kept putting money into semiconductor and hardware startups when most other venture capitalists chose less risky investments in software and internet services. Credit...

  • Dec 7, 2024 | spokesman.com | Don Clark

    AUSTIN, Texas – On the south side of Austin, Texas, engineers at semiconductor maker Advanced Micro Devices designed an artificial intelligence chip called MI300 that was released a year ago and is expected to generate more than $5 billion in sales in its first year of release. Not far away in a north Austin high-rise, designers at Amazon developed a new and faster version of an AI chip called Trainium.

  • Dec 3, 2024 | sanjuandailystar.com | Don Clark |Tripp Mickle |Steve Lohr

    By Don Clark, Tripp Mickle and Steve LohrOver the weekend, Intel CEO Patrick Gelsinger was given a choice by the company’s board of directors: Resign or be fired. Intel’s board had concluded that Gelsinger had to depart after his plans to turn around the iconic semiconductor maker were not showing results quickly enough, said a person with knowledge of the matter, who was not authorized to speak publicly. Other challenges had piled up, with the company’s stock plunging more than 50% this year.

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Don Clark
Don Clark @donal888
29 Apr 25

Intel also admitted that customers said its vaunted 18A production process is not cutting it for many of them, so Intel will offer a modified version of 18A and also use customer input to make its later 14A process better

Don Clark
Don Clark @donal888
29 Apr 25

Intel foundry chief says it is abandoning its decades-old "Copy Exact" methodology--making few changes in factories to production processes once they are proven--to continuous innovation to keep making better chips at higher yield

Don Clark
Don Clark @donal888
28 Apr 25

Kurt Sievers, NXP CEO, says he plans to retire at the end of 2025. Had a good run