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AMD to invest $400 million in India by 2028: Here’s what we know

US chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices said on Friday it will invest around $400 million in India over the next five years and will build its largest design center in the tech hub of Bengaluru. AMD’s announcement was made by its Chief Technology Officer Mark Papermaster at an annual semiconductor conference that started Friday in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state of Gujarat. Other speakers at the flagship event include Foxconn Chairman Young Liu and Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra. Despite being a late entrant, the Modi government has been courting investments into India’s nascent chip sector to establish its credentials as a chipmaking hub. AMD said it will open its new design centre campus in Bengaluru by end of this year and create 3,000 new engineering roles within five years. “Our India teams will continue to play a pivotal role in delivering the high-performance and adaptive solutions that support AMD customers worldwide,” Papermaster said. The new 500,000-square-foot (55,5...

Elon Musk looking to launch his own Twitter competitor: Here’s what we know

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been a prolific Twitter user, but is now thinking of building his own social media platform. Ironically, the billionaire shared his thoughts on developing his own social media platform like Twitter on Twitter.

A Twitter user asked Musk if he would “consider building a social media platform consisting of an open source algorithm and one that would prioritize free speech, and where propaganda was minimal.” To which he replied, “Am giving serious thought to this.”

This development comes just after Musk ran a Twitter poll asking users if they believed Twitter adheres to the principle of free speech. He wrote, “The consequences of this poll will be important. Please vote carefully.” The overall ballet was revealed as 70 percent of people voted “no”.

If Musk decides to develop a new social media platform, he will be joining a list of other people and companies trying to do the same, positioning themselves to allow free speech. They tend to take on the mainstream platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and more. However, to date, none of the new competitors has managed to gain as much traction, and instead have simply just carved out their own small niche and continue to operate with a small chunk of users.

As we can see in Musk’s tweets, he isn’t 100 percent convinced, but it seems as if his Twitter followers are nudging him in the direction of creating a separate social media outlet. We expect more details on this to follow in the coming days.

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