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
A microchip and the Nvidia logo displayed on a phone screen are seen in this photo taken in Krakow, Poland, on April 10, 2023. Nurphoto | Getty Images Artificial intelligence and semiconductor chip stocks rallied Thursday after U.S. chip design firm Nvidia beat Wall Street’s expectations for fourth-quarter earnings and revenue on Wednesday and projected … Read more
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks during a keynote address announcing ChatGPT integration for Bing at Microsoft in Redmond, Washington, Feb. 7, 2023. Jason Redmond | AFP | Getty Images When Satya Nadella replaced Steve Ballmer as Microsoft CEO in February 2014, the software company was mired in mediocrity. Its market cap was just over $300 … Read more
Ajei Gopal, CEO, Ansys Scott Mlyn | CNBC Semiconductor design and software firm Synopsys on Tuesday announced it would acquire Ansys, an engineering and product design software firm, in a cash-and-stock deal valued at approximately $35 billion. The acquisition is one of the largest tech deals announced in recent years. Synopsys will pay consideration of … Read more
Lisa Su, president and CEO of AMD, during an interview with Mad Money, broadcasting from CNBC’s San Francisco bureau on November 21, 2019. Jacob Jimenez | CNBC The big winner for investors this year in the generative AI boom was Nvidia. The company’s stock price rocketed 234% as demand soared for the chipmaker’s processors that … Read more
