Today, we are excited to announce AWS Trainium and AWS Inferentia support for fine-tuning and inference of the Llama 3.1 models. The Llama 3.1 family of multilingual large language models (LLMs) is a collection of pre-trained and instruction tuned generative models in 8B, 70B, and 405B sizes. In a previousContinue Reading
Pixelbizz/iStock Editorial via Getty Images ASML’s (NASDAQ:ASML) CEO Christophe Fouquet said that chip buyers, including Germany’s car industry, need older generation computer chips which Chinese chip manufacturers are currently investing in, Reuters reported citing Fouquet’s interview with German newspaper Handelsblatt. Fouquet’s comments comes amid the European Commission, or EC, startingContinue Reading
Wolterk SK Hynix plans to invest 103T won (about $74.8B) through 2028 to bolster its chips business, Bloomberg News reported citing the South Korean company’s parent SK Group. Around 80%, or 82T won, will be set aside to invest in high-bandwidth memory, or HBM chips, SK Group said in aContinue Reading
Andy/iStock via Getty Images Semiconductor stocks were largely in the red on Thursday, amid profit taking by investors, spurred in part by Micron Technology’s (NASDAQ:MU) in-line guidance. Micron shares fell nearly 7% with more than 37M shares changing hands shortly before 12 p.m. EST, compared to the average daily volumeContinue Reading
Spencer Platt/Getty Images News Samsung Electronics’ (OTCPK:SSNLF) will raise the prices of DRAM for servers and NAND flash products for companies by 15% to 20% in the third quarter, Maeil Business Newspaper reported. The South Korean company is expected to improve its performance in the second half of the yearContinue Reading
Entegris (NASDAQ:ENTG) has signed a non-binding preliminary memorandum of terms with the U.S. Department of Commerce to receive up to $75M in direct funding under the CHIPS and Science Act. This proposed CHIPS funding would support the development of Entegris (ENTG) state-of-the-art facility in Colorado Springs designed to create productsContinue Reading
pichet_w As concerns about weakness in the semiconductor sector grow, hedge funds have continued to sell chip stocks and tech overall for most of the last month. Goldman’s Prime brokerage said Info Tech (NYSEARCA:XLK) was the most net sold sector last week, driven by short and long sales. Info TechContinue Reading
