MediaTek lines up $5B war chest for AI datacenter push
But the firm is the latest to see a "compelling growth opportunity" in the market for compute to power AI and so-called agentic AI in particular.MediaTek is targeting application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) rather than GPUs and reckons it can capture 15 to 20 percent of the market. REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/b'); }); The company's board has also approved $5 billion in financing to secure supply chain capacity and fuel an expansion from AI ASIC chips to full-scale systems and platforms, MediaTek stated. A second AI accelerator design is also progressing well and aims to offer a step up in compute performance.
- ▪But the firm is the latest to see a "compelling growth opportunity" in the market for compute to power AI and so-called agentic AI in particular.MediaTek is targeting application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) rather than GPUs and rec
- ▪REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/b'); }); The company's board has also approved $5 billion in financing to secure supply chain capacity and fuel an expansion from AI ASIC chips to ful
- ▪A second AI accelerator design is also progressing well and aims to offer a step up in compute performance.
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