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TECH NEWS : Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has no problem being labelled as a demanding, perfectionist leader who is "not easy to work with" by his employees. In fact, he says that's precisely how it should be when striving to accomplish "extraordinary things."

TOKYO -- Japan's Sakura Internet has secured around 20 billion yen worth ($130 million) of Nvidia's next-generation B200 chips as part of its investme

AI Chip: The company would inject USD 30 billion in the project, with an additional USD 70 billion potentially coming from Middle Eastern institutions, according to the report.

Meta: The worlds biggest social media company has been scrambling to boost its computing capacity for the power-hungry generative AI products it is pushing into apps Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp and hardware devices like its Ray-Ban smartglasses, spending billions of dollars to amass arsenals of specialized chips and reconfigure data centers to accommodate them.

Share prices and valuations could shift this week as Microsoft reports its quarterly results on Tuesday, followed by Apple on Thursday. In the long term, though, all the investors consulted by Reuters said Microsofts recent successes in generative AI give it a powerful advantage over Apple.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing: "With basic semiconductors - thats a supply and demand business... but I think youre going to continue to hear chatter about AI, and it will translate into huge revenue growth for a lot of these companies," said Tim Ghriskey, senior portfolio strategist at Ingalls & Snyder in New York.

AMD announced a new lineup of laptop processors designed to boost AI applications on PCs.

US restrictions on Nvidia's AI chips have given Huawei an opportunity to gain market share. Huawei has secured a significant AI chip order from Baidu

The worlds largest contract electronics maker, Foxconn -- officially known as Hon Hai Technology Group -- already plays a lynchpin role in assembling gadgets for top global brands, including Apples iPhone.

​​ The French competition authority said that its operation this week followed a broader inquiry into the cloud-computing sector. The broader inquiry revolves around concerns that cloud-computing companies could use their access to computing power to exclude smaller competitors.