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Analyst says Nvidia poised to capture two-thirds of the x86 server CPU market from Intel and AMD with expected $20 billion in revenue
Premium Having become the main supplier of AI accelerators, Nvidia is now on track to outsell AMD and Intel with Vera CPUs and become a leading supplier of processors.
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AI is starting to out-design chip engineers in narrow areas as LLMs accelerate software chip design tool development
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