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Startup Funding: March 2021 Self-driving vehicles revved up investors in March, with two companies receiving over $200M apiece as they prepare for their systems to enter mass production. One focuses on software for passenger vehicles, while the other is looking to autonomous trucks. Both of the companies received investment from automakers, with China’s largest carmaker SAIC joining each of the funding rounds. It was also a good month for startups making chips for AI acceleration, with four c...

Bullish options activity in the chip space is nothing new in recent weeks. The SMH semiconductor ETF has gained 10% in just the last month as supply shortages drive prices higher. In Mondays session, though, plenty of activity was stock-specific, and AMD was a big winner. "We saw calls outpace puts by [a ratio of] about 3-to-1 in AMD today, and the most active options were the 82-strike calls that expire at the end of this week," Optimize Advisors CIO Michael Khouw said Tuesday on CNBCs "Fast M...

Article content SILICON VALLEY, Calif., April 07, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — AMD (NASDAQ:AMD) and Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ:XLNX) announced today that stockholders voted to approve their respective proposals relating to the pending acquisition of Xilinx by AMD. The acquisition will bring together two industry leaders with complementary product portfolios and customers, combining CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, Adaptive SoCs and deep software expertise to enable leadership in computing platforms for cloud, edge an...

AMDs  ( XLNX) - Get Report has been approved by shareholders of both chipmakers. AMD, of Santa Clara, Calif., last October agreed to acquire Xilinx, San Jose, Calif. Under the terms, AMD will pay 1.7234 shares for each Xilinx share. “The acquisition will bring together two industry leaders with complementary product portfolios and customers,” the companies said in a statement. The move "[combines] central processing units, graphics processing units, field programmable gate arrays, adapti...

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. Cadence Unveils Next-Generation Palladium Z2 and Protium X2 Systems to Dramatically Accelerate Pre‑Silicon Hardware Debug and Software Validation Tuesday, April 6, 2021 1:54PM IST (8:24AM GMT)   Highlights: New dynamic duo delivers 2X capacity and 1.5X higher performance compared to previous-generation Palladium Z1 and Protium X1 systems Palladium Z2 emulation based on a new custom emulation processor offers fastest, most predictable compiles and most comprehensi...

April 6, 2021 Cadence Unveils Next-Generation Palladium Z2 and Protium X2 Systems to Dramatically Accelerate Pre-Silicon Hardware Debug and Software Validation Highlights: New dynamic duo delivers 2X capacity and 1.5X higher performance compared to previous-generation Palladium Z1 and Protium X1 systems Palladium Z2 emulation based on a new custom emulation processor offers fastest, most predictable compiles and most comprehensive pre-silicon hardware debug capabilities Protium X2 prototyping b...

Marvell Technology (NASDAQ:MRVL) are on Jasons radar. Plus, they discuss Archegos Capitals margin call and the ripple effect (and lessons) for investors. To catch full episodes of all The Motley Fools free podcasts, check out our podcast center. To get started investing, check out our quick-start guide to investing in stocks. A full transcript follows the video. This video was recorded on March 29, 2021. Chris Hill: Its Monday, March 29th, welcome to the MarketFoolery. Im Chris Hill, with me ...

As inter-gen performance gains shrink, 3rd gen Intel Xeon Scalable messaging highlights hardware security and co-processor performance. With inter-generation performance gains of the Intel Ice Lake server chips (3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable) unremarkable in comparison to what they used to be when Moore’s Law was in full effect, the company’s messaging around the new data center processor family’s launch focused on its much improved secure enclaves capabilities and its effectiveness w...

Improving the state of the world... by not paying the government Lindsay Clark Tue 6 Apr 2021 // 18:58 UTC Share Copy SaaSy CRM giant Salesforce.com is among the tech companies named in a think tank report for paying no corporate income tax in the US despite sizeable earnings. According to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP), a nonprofit tax policy organisation [PDF], Salesforce is among nine tech and 55 S&P and Fortune 500 companies failing to pay corpo...

World’s Best Investment Banks 2021: Sector Winners Advertisement April 05, 2021 Last year, in the shadow of Covid-19, global investment banking was charged with helping companies persevere through a period of extraordinarily slow economic growth, lockdowns and closed borders. Even so, net revenue for investment banking increased about 20% to $93.2 billion in 2020, from $78 billion in 2019, according to Dealogic. Driving this growth were industries that found a silver lining in the disruption ...