Chipotle Mexican Grill recently announced plans to hire 20,000 new employees as the 'Burrito Season' approaches. This recruitment drive aims to address the upcoming peak dining season. The company's Chief Human Resources Officer, Ilene Eskenazi, stated that these positions offer applicants a great career starting point and help them achieve their career goals within the company. Eskenazi pointed out that many current...

Microsoft recently announced a significant technological breakthrough, claiming that its newly developed chip could enable the construction of quantum computers within years instead of decades. The highlight of this chip lies in its use of the world's first topological conductor, a material that creates a new state of matter that is neither solid, liquid, nor gas. This innovation makes it possible to design quantum systems that can fit on a single chip, and the chip itself is smaller than a palm. Microsoft's research has been published in the Nature Journal, and numerous experts have expressed their...

With the rapid development of artificial intelligence technology, tech giants are increasingly investing in new AI chips. Recently, news about OpenAI's self-developed AI chips has attracted widespread attention in the market, but industry experts believe this will not pose a substantial threat to Nvidia's stock price. Source of the image: The image is AI-generated, and the image licensing service provider Midjourney in a recent video report analyzed Nvidia's recent market dynamics and...

On February 11, 2025, at the World Governments Summit held in Dubai, UAE, Baidu founder Li Yanhong engaged in an in-depth dialogue with UAE AI Minister Omar Sultan Al Olama to explore future development trends in AI infrastructure. During the discussion, Al Olama mentioned the recent global attention towards DeepSeek, which caused significant fluctuations in the stock prices of several major chip manufacturers and exchanges, and asked Li Yanhong for his views on the future of data centers and AI infrastructure.

According to reliable sources, ChatGPT developer OpenAI is advancing its first self-developed artificial intelligence chip project, with the design expected to be completed in the coming months and delivered to TSMC for production. The project plans to use TSMC's advanced 3nm process technology and will be equipped with high bandwidth memory, with an overall architecture similar to NVIDIA's products. This strategic initiative began in October 2023, aimed at addressing the shortage and high costs of AI chips. Sources indicate that OpenAI views this training-focused processor as an enhancement.

Over the past one and a half weekends, DeepSeek's influence has been continuously rising, marking several important advancements. The National Supercomputing Internet Platform has officially launched DeepSeek-R1, which supports up to 671B of full functionality. Additionally, T-head's XuanTie chip has successfully adapted to the distilled models of the DeepSeek-R1 series, further expanding the application space on RISC-V architecture CPUs and edge computing platforms. During the Spring Festival, all three major operators have fully connected to DeepSeek.

Artificial intelligence chip company Cerebras Systems announced on Thursday a partnership with French open-source AI technology firm Mistral, assisting the latter in setting a new speed record. Mistral aims to compete with open-source rivals like Meta and China's DeepSeek, which shook the global market last month with their low-cost and high-performance technologies. All three companies are in competition with OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT.

Recently, Chengdu Huayi revealed on its interactive platform that it has successfully developed a specialized AI chip for the edge computing field. This chip boasts an AI computing power of up to 16 Tops and is currently undergoing limited trial use among several clients in specific industries. The new chip not only offers robust computing power but also demonstrates excellent performance in video encoding and decoding, supporting video processing capabilities of up to 8K resolution. This represents a significant technological advancement for applications such as video surveillance and smart homes.

In today's development of artificial intelligence (AI), the speed of data transmission has become a significant bottleneck hindering its progress. To break through this barrier, a research team led by the University of Michigan (U-M) is developing a brand new chip connection system that uses optical waves instead of traditional cables for data transmission. This innovation is expected to address the 'memory wall' problem that limits computational speed and promote further growth of AI models. The project has received a $2 million grant from the National Science Foundation's Future Semiconductor program, with participation from the University of Washington and Penn State.

Recently, researchers from the Department of Engineering at Princeton University and the Indian Institute of Technology achieved breakthroughs in the design of wireless microchips using artificial intelligence (AI), significantly reducing design time and costs while discovering new functions. The results of this research were published in the journal Nature Communications, marking the dawn of a new era in microchip design. Image source note: The image was generated by AI, image licensed by Midjourney. Microchips play a vital role in modern technologies such as wireless communication. They consist of traditional electronic circuits and complex electromagnetic structures.

With the rapid development of artificial intelligence, the investment boom in AI chip manufacturers has gradually intensified. Among them, Blaize has attracted wide attention in the market. Founded by a former Intel engineer, the company announced its plan to go public on NASDAQ through a SPAC (Special Purpose Acquisition Company) on January 14, 2025. Blaize was established in 2011 and is headquartered in El Dorado Hills, California. To date, it has raised $335 million in investments, primarily from Samsung and Mercedes.