Technology
Alphabet’s TPU AI chips are a potential US$900 billion ‘secret sauce’
The success of TPU chips is a primary reason for the company’s 31% fourth-quarter share rally[NEW YORK] Alphabet investors are growing increasingly confident that the company’s semiconductors could represent...
Micron to exit consumer memory business amid global supply shortage
[BENGALURU] Memory chipmaker Micron Technology said on Wednesday (Dec 3) that it will exit its consumer business, as it doubles down on advanced memory chips used in artificial intelligence...
Indexes close higher as data keeps Fed rate cut expectations elevated
[NEW YORK] US stocks advanced to close higher on Wednesday (Dec 3), as a flurry of economic data kept expectations elevated for an interest rate cut by the Federal...
TikTok to invest more than 200 billion reais in Brazil data centre
[NEW YORK] ByteDance’s TikTok will invest more than 200 billion reais (S$49 billion) to build a data centre in Brazil, marking its first project in Latin America.TikTok will partner...
HSBC names Brendan Nelson chairman in surprise move
The bank says Nelson’s appointment follows a robust process assessing internal and external candidates[LONDON] HSBC Holdings’ interim chairman Brendan Nelson will move into that role on a permanent basis,...
Waymo hits a dog in San Francisco, reigniting safety debate
A self-driving Waymo taxi hit a dog in San Francisco, reigniting a heated debate over autonomous vehicle safety just weeks after one killed a popular neighborhood cat.On Sunday, around...
Temasek-backed Xora Innovation leads US$46 million funding in Vinci
[SINGAPORE] Vinci, the brain behind a physics-driven artificial intelligence (AI) platform for hardware design and simulation, raised US$46 million in seed and Series A funding, it said on Tuesday...
STI up 0.3%, amid mixed showing by Singapore shares
Across the broader market, there are 288 gainers and 236 decliners, with 1.3 billion securities valued at about S$1.3 billion transacted[SINGAPORE] Singapore shares had a mixed showing on Tuesday...
