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Or sign-in if you have an account.While stocks soared on the news, an order for three million chips wouldn’t change the direction of Intel’s money-losing manufacturing business overnight. 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Weekdays by 9 a.m.By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.A welcome email is on its way. If you don't see it, please check your junk folder.The next issue of Posthaste will soon be in your inbox.We encountered an issue signing you up. Please try againIntel shares soared as much as 13 per cent to $112.37 in New York. The stock has roughly tripled in value this year.A representative for Intel declined to comment. Google didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.Intel shares recently hit a record after the chipmaker delivered a sales forecast that shattered Wall Street expectations, showing that it’s finally benefiting from a boom in AI spending. The upbeat outlook suggests chief executive Lip-Bu Tan is making progress on a once-improbable turnaround. After lining up major investments in Intel last year — helping to strengthen the company’s balance sheet — he’s now delivering on a promise to improve operations.Nvidia Corp. is also testing whether Intel’s technology can be used to make a forthcoming processor that combines four graphics chips into a single unit, the Information said, citing two unnamed sources. Nvidia didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.Still, it’s unclear how much Google and others will rely on Intel’s chip foundry business, which produces semiconductors, compared with its packaging service. The latter offering involves enclosing chips in casing and readying them to be connected to other circuitry.Intel has told investors that it’s racked up a backlog worth billions of dollars for packaging work. That step in semiconductor production is traditionally of lesser importance and doesn’t cost as much as the process of creating the electronic components out of disks of silicon. But the work has become more important because combining chips in the same package is increasingly being seen as a way to achieve better performance, particularly with data centre parts.An order for three million chips wouldn’t change the direction of Intel’s money-losing manufacturing business overnight. It’s equal to the output of a major factory in a month or less. Still, large companies signalling that they’re more willing to trust Intel with their most important work would help bolster the status of its technology and help its chances of winning other customers.Google, meanwhile, has emerged as one of the most successful makers of in-house AI chips in an industry dominated by Nvidia. The company’s TPUs have become a hot commodity in Silicon Valley in recent months, and Google is looking to build on that momentum with the latest versions.Nvidia’s graphics processing units, or GPUs, remain the gold standard for AI, particularly for training more advanced models. But a growing number of up-and-comers are vying to take on the chipmaker for inference uses, including by offering chips meant to cut down response times for chatbots and AI agents. Inference is the stage in AI when models are trained and begin generating responses.—With assistance from Zsana Hoskins and Guinevere Grant. Join the Conversation This website uses cookies to personalize your content (including ads), and allows us to analyze our traffic. Read more about cookies here. By continuing to use our site, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.