Microsoft could be planning to let widgets loose on the Windows 11 desktop
Here’s another piece of Microsoft’s Windows 11 widget masterplan, which appears to be rapidly falling into place.
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Microsoft’s secretive hardware efforts also come amid a period of Big Tech layoffs. But the firm’s new Microsoft Silicon business, led by former Intel executive Rani Borkar, is growing and now has almost 1,000 employees, several hundred of which are working on Athena. The software giant has invested about $2 billion on this effort so far, Bloomberg says. (And that’s above the $11 billion it’s invested in ChatGPT maker OpenAI.) Bloomberg also says that Microsoft intends to keep partnering with Nvidia too, and that it will continue buying Nvidia chipsets as needed.
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