Will AI make or break India?

Will AI make or break India?

Findlay Kember | AFP | Getty Images This report is from this week’s CNBC’s “Inside India” newsletter which brings you timely, insightful news and market commentary on the emerging powerhouse and the big businesses behind its meteoric rise. Like what you see? You can subscribe here. The big story It was a tale of two European … Read more

Jim Cramer’s top 10 things to watch in the stock market Thursday

Jim Cramer’s top 10 things to watch in the stock market Thursday

My top 10 things to watch Thursday, May 2 The S & P 500 and Nasdaq are higher Thursday, one day after they surrendered their post-Federal Reserve meeting gains and closed modestly lower. After leaving interest rates unchanged, Fed chief Jerome Powell essentially ruled out a hike as central bankers’ next move. He said that … Read more

Qualcomm earnings report Q2 2024

Qualcomm earnings report Q2 2024

Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon responds to a question during a keynote conversation at CES 2024, an annual consumer electronics trade show, in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Jan. 10, 2024. Steve Marcus | Reuters Qualcomm reported second-quarter earnings on Wednesday that surpassed Wall Street expectations, and provided a strong guide for the current quarter. Shares rose … Read more

Intel dominated U.S. chip industry. Now struggling to stay relevant

Intel dominated U.S. chip industry. Now struggling to stay relevant

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger speaks while showing silicon wafers during an event called AI Everywhere in New York, Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023. Seth Wenig | AP Intel’s long-awaited turnaround looks farther away than ever after the company reported dismal first-quarter earnings. Investors pushed the stock down 10% on Friday to their lowest level of the … Read more

India is a key chip design market, says Qualcomm, as Modi makes chip push

India is a key chip design market, says Qualcomm, as Modi makes chip push

A worker inspects a circuit board for a smartphone at Dixon Technologies’ Padget Electronics Pvt factory in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India, on Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021. Dixon boasts a market value of more than $2.5 billion and the capacity to produce about 50 million smartphones this year. Photographer: Anindito Mukherjee/Bloomberg via Getty Images Bloomberg | Bloomberg … Read more

ASML earnings drag semiconductor stocks lower

ASML earnings drag semiconductor stocks lower

Workers at Carl Zeiss ZMT are seen outside giant vacuum chambers where optical systems for ASML’s new High NA EUV tool are tested. ASML Chip stocks fell on Wednesday after ASML, a key developer of semiconductor manufacturing equipment, said that bookings fell by 61% sequentially during the first quarter, a steeper drop than investors had … Read more

China remains a crucial market for U.S. chipmakers amid rising tensions

China remains a crucial market for U.S. chipmakers amid rising tensions

US-China chip war graphic Wong Yu Liang | Moment | Getty Images China remains an essential market for most American chipmakers despite Washington’s efforts to restrict chip sales to the country and amid Beijing’s push for self sufficiency in the semiconductor sector.  Data from S&P Global showed that U.S. chip giants Intel, Broadcom, Qualcomm and Marvell Technology … Read more

Intel unveils Gaudi 3 AI chip as Nvidia competition heats up

Intel unveils Gaudi 3 AI chip as Nvidia competition heats up

Pat Gelsinger, CEO Intel, speaking on CNBC’s Squawk Box at the WEF Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 16th, 2024. Adam Galici | CNBC Intel on Tuesday unveiled its latest artificial intelligence chip, called Gaudi 3, as chipmakers rush to produce semiconductors that can train and deploy big AI models, such as the one underpinning … Read more

China’s Xi tells U.S. CEOs that bilateral relations can have a ‘brighter future’

China’s Xi tells U.S. CEOs that bilateral relations can have a ‘brighter future’

China’s President Xi Jinping speaks at an event held by the National Committee on US-China Relations and the US-China Business Council on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders’ Week in San Francisco, California, on November 15, 2023. Carlos Barria | Afp | Getty Images BEIJING — Chinese President Xi Jinping told U.S. … Read more

China’s Xi meets U.S. execs as businesses navigate bilateral tensions

China’s Xi meets U.S. execs as businesses navigate bilateral tensions

China’s President Xi Jinping speaks at the “Senior Chinese Leader Event” held by the National Committee on US-China Relations and the US-China Business Council on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in San Francisco, California, U.S., November 15, 2023.  Carlos Barria | Reuters BEIJING — U.S. business leaders met with Chinese President … Read more