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Hardware Innovation News 18 September 2025 - 24 October 2025

IBM Stock Soars on Quantum Breakthrough and AI Revival – Key Updates (Sept 25, 2025)

Quantum Surprise: IBM Runs 10× Faster Error‐Correction on AMD Chips, Stocks Skyrocket

IBM and AMD’s Quantum Computing Push IBM and AMD are aggressively combining their strengths in quantum and classical computing. In August 2025 they announced a “quantum‑centric supercomputing” alliance, aiming to blend IBM’s quantum chips with AMD’s CPUs, GPUs and FPGAs amd.com amd.com. As IBM CEO Arvind Krishna put it, “Quantum computing will simulate the natural world and represent information in an entirely new way… [working] together… we will build a powerful hybrid model that pushes past the limits of traditional computing.” amd.com AMD’s CEO Lisa Su echoed this vision: by converging high‑performance and quantum computing, “we see tremendous opportunities to
24 October 2025
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Meta’s $2B AI Chip Bet: Acquiring Rivos to Challenge Nvidia’s Dominance?

Meta’s $2B AI Chip Bet: Acquiring Rivos to Challenge Nvidia’s Dominance?

Meta’s move to acquire Rivos comes amid a major push by Big Tech to own the chips that power AI. The Santa Clara–based startup Rivos is a “stealth” AI-chip developer whose founders include former Apple and AMD engineers reuters.com waldencatalyst.com. Rivos’ CEO Puneet Kumar explains the company’s strategy: by targeting smaller installations, Rivos can offer cost-effective AI chips “where Nvidia might seem like an overkill from a cost perspective,” providing a solution “that works well enough and can compete quite well” waldencatalyst.com. In practice, Rivos is designing its chip around software for large-scale AI models. As Kumar told Reuters, “usually
30 September 2025
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Huawei’s AI Superchip Power Play Shakes Up Nvidia’s Throne

Huawei’s AI Superchip Power Play Shakes Up Nvidia’s Throne

Huawei’s New AI Chip Offensive: Technical Breakthroughs Huawei’s latest moves mark its boldest bid yet to break free from foreign semiconductors and establish itself as a leader in artificial intelligence computing. At its annual Huawei Connect conference in Shanghai, the company outlined a sweeping long-term chip strategy, openly detailing plans that had been shrouded in secrecy since U.S. sanctions hit in 2019 reuters.com reuters.com. The headline announcement: Huawei will rapidly iterate its Ascend AI chips and accompanying systems, doubling computing power every year in an aggressive cadence aimed at catching up to (and even surpassing) global rivals reuters.com. Central to
18 September 2025
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