File photo: An aerial view of a Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. factory in Bac Ninh province, Vietnam. Photo: VCG Over the past two years, the world’s largest corporations and capital allocators have seemingly synchronized their compasses, pointing collectively toward one destination: Vietnam. The roster of arrivals reads like a who’s who of the Fortune 500. Nvidia has established research and data c...
File photo: An aerial view of a Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. factory in Bac Ninh province, Vietnam. Photo: VCG Over the past two years, the world’s largest corporations and capital allocators have seemingly synchronized their compasses, pointing collectively toward one destination: Vietnam. The roster of arrivals reads like a who’s who of the Fortune 500. Nvidia has established research and data centers on the ground. Microsoft presents a similar story, partnering with local firms to develop new AI products. Google is pouring capital into massive data infrastructure, and Qualcomm has acquired local research outfits to build its own teams. Even Apple, long reliant on Chinese manufacturing, has expanded beyond assembling iPhones and AirPods in Vietnam to launching a new production line for AI-enabled home appliances.
Amazon.com Inc. employees who have been anticipating layoffs numbering in the thousands got one more thing to worry about late Tuesday: a meeting invite and email from a top executive that was sent prematurely. The email from Amazon Senior Vice President Colleen Aubrey , reviewed by Bloomberg, scheduled a meeting for Wednesday morning that has since been canceled, titled “Project Dawn.” The email ...
Amazon.com Inc. employees who have been anticipating layoffs numbering in the thousands got one more thing to worry about late Tuesday: a meeting invite and email from a top executive that was sent prematurely. The email from Amazon Senior Vice President Colleen Aubrey , reviewed by Bloomberg, scheduled a meeting for Wednesday morning that has since been canceled, titled “Project Dawn.” The email said “impacted colleagues” based in the US, Canada and Costa Rica had been notified, and referred to a separate message from Amazon’s human resources chief Beth Galetti that does not appear to have been sent. “Changes like this are hard on everyone,” the email from Aubrey stated. “The decisions are difficult and made thoughtfully as we position our organization and AWS for future success.” Amazon did not immediately respond to requests for comment. The email quickly spread on internal message boards and social media sites like Reddit, where Amazon employees are sharing any hints they can glean about the scope of layoffs. Amazon initiated a big round of job cuts in October, removing 14,000 corporate roles and gutting its video games division . At the time, Amazon signaled that more cuts could come in 2026 as it found “additional places we can remove layers.” Read More: Amazon Gears Up to Ax Thousands More Corporate Employees
Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook said he is “heartbroken by the events in Minneapolis” and has expressed concerns privately to President Trump following the killing of a man by federal agents there this past weekend, a memo to staff said. “This is a time for de-escalation,” Cook wrote in the internal message viewed by The Wall Street Journal. “I had a good conversation with the president this week w...
Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook said he is “heartbroken by the events in Minneapolis” and has expressed concerns privately to President Trump following the killing of a man by federal agents there this past weekend, a memo to staff said. “This is a time for de-escalation,” Cook wrote in the internal message viewed by The Wall Street Journal. “I had a good conversation with the president this week where I shared my views, and I appreciate his openness to engaging on issues that matter to us all,” Cook wrote.
Elena Rybakina took a significant step towards her second grand slam title as she overpowered and outplayed the second seed Iga Swiatek in the quarter-finals of the Australian Open, advancing 7-5, 6-1 to end Swiatek’s hopes of completing the career grand slam this year. This immense victory sends Rybakina, the fifth seed and 2023 Australian Open finalist, into her fourth grand slam semi-final. It ...
Elena Rybakina took a significant step towards her second grand slam title as she overpowered and outplayed the second seed Iga Swiatek in the quarter-finals of the Australian Open, advancing 7-5, 6-1 to end Swiatek’s hopes of completing the career grand slam this year. This immense victory sends Rybakina, the fifth seed and 2023 Australian Open finalist, into her fourth grand slam semi-final. It has been nearly four years since the 26-year-old made her first breakthrough by winning Wimbledon in 2022, and although she has won numerous big titles and established herself as one of the best players in the world, she has failed to drag herself over the line at the grand slams. However, Rybakina arrived in Melbourne playing some of the best tennis of her career after dismantling the field at the WTA Finals last November. The disdain with which she put Swiatek away here in set two reinforced her potential to win this tournament. Rybakina and Swiatek have built one of the most significant rivalries in the sport, having competed against each other on so many of the biggest stages. Although Swiatek is the more accomplished and overall superior player, this is a match-up Rybakina relishes. Her destructive serve, the best in the world, neutralises Swiatek’s peerless return abilities and she robs Swiatek of time with her easy, destructive ball speed off both wings. This is reflected in their countless tight matches, with the head-to-head now even at 6-6. The serve differential was the story here again. Rybakina did not even serve spectacularly well in the first set, landing just 41% of first serves. But she won 93% of the points behind it, conceding only one point. While Rybakina breezed through her service games to reach 6-5, Swiatek served badly under significant scoreboard pressure. Late in the set, Rybakina’s aggression pressured Swiatek to take the initiative and the Pole played an error strewn service game to relinquish the set. Having secured the opening set, Rybakina re...
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang has a plan for next-gen Vera CPUs by offering them as a standalone part, will compete with AMD EPYC and Intel Xeon CPUs. TL;DR: NVIDIA introduces Vera CPUs with 88 custom Armv9.2 cores and advanced Spatial Multithreading, delivering up to 176 threads and 1.5TB LPDDR5X memory support. Designed for high-performance workloads, Vera competes directly with AMD EPYC and Intel Xeo...
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang has a plan for next-gen Vera CPUs by offering them as a standalone part, will compete with AMD EPYC and Intel Xeon CPUs. TL;DR: NVIDIA introduces Vera CPUs with 88 custom Armv9.2 cores and advanced Spatial Multithreading, delivering up to 176 threads and 1.5TB LPDDR5X memory support. Designed for high-performance workloads, Vera competes directly with AMD EPYC and Intel Xeon, featuring enhanced memory bandwidth and next-gen NVLink technology. NVIDIA will be offering its next-gen Vera CPUs as a standalone part of the infrastructure, with wherever the CPU workload is, it will run on NVIDIA CPUs... meaning it'll compete against AMD's mega-successful EPYC processors as well as Intel's fleets of Xeon CPUs. In a new interview between Bloomberg and NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang regarding the upcoming Vera CPU plan, Jensen said: "For the very first time, we're going to be offering Vera CPUs. Vera is such an incredible CPU. We're going to offer Vera CPUs as a standalone part of the infrastructure. And so not only, not only can you run your computing stack on NVIDIA GPUs, you can now also run your computing stack, wherever their CPU workload, run on NVIDIA CPUs". Jensen continued, adding: "Vera is completely revolutionary...Coreweave is going to have to race if Coreweave's going to be the first to stand up Vera CPUs. We haven't announced any of our CPU design wins, but there are going to be many". Read more: NVIDIA upgrades Vera Rubin HBM4 bandwidth by 10% in order to stay ahead of AMD Instinct MI455X NVIDIA's new "Vera" CPU is powered by 88 custom Armv9.2 "Olympus" CPU cores that use Spatial Multithreading technology, unlocking it to an 88C/176T processor. Vera features up to 1.5TB of LPDDR5X memory, with up to 1.2TB/sec of memory bandwidth, perfect for memory-intensive computing workloads. There's also a second-gen Scalable Coherency Fabric that features up to 3.4TB/sec of bi-section bandwidth, connecting the 88C/176T of power across a unified monolithic d...