Katie Tarasov
@katietarasov
Senior Producer at @CNBC covering microchips and Amazon. @NPPA past president. Run, snowboard, dive, climb, surf. Story hunting in 46 countries & counting
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šš¼āāļø1st U.S. journalist to get on-cam fab tour at #Samsung. You probably know its #Galaxy phones, TVs, appliances...but it's also the world's 2nd biggest maker of advanced chips. As memory prices fall, it's focusing on foundry w new $17 billion fab in Texas: youtu.be/59FLrNTGVMg
I've been to Texas a lot latelyā¦because it's got more chip fabs than any other state + $61 billion more coming. I sat down w Gov. Greg Abbott to ask about water, power, subsidies & low taxes. I also got rare tours inside Texas Instruments, Samsung Electronics & Infineon: youtu.be/mDamhO7my9A
Despite a ban in China, Micron Technology is building the biggest chip project in U.S. history: $100 billion in NY + $15 billion in Idaho. In my latest CNBC Chip Giants story, I ask Sanjay Mehrotra how they'll pull it off + talk w Chuck Schumer & Governor Kathy Hochul youtu.be/S3geK7xVDQU?siā¦
I'm back from maternity leave, with two babies and two stories to share! We've started a new CNBC series, AI Insights, starting w interviews of the former Google Transformer 8. My 1st conversation is with Illia (root.near) (šŗš¦, ā), now co-founder of NEAR Protocol cnbc.com/2024/06/27/illā¦
For the second Transformer 8 interview, I sat down with Jakob Uszkoreit Jakob Uszkoreit, who left Google in 2021 to co-found biotech AI startup Inceptive. He wants to use gen AI to change the fundamental way drugs work. Here's our conversation: cnbc.com/2024/07/12/incā¦
Next up in the Transformer 8 interviews, Steve Kovach sat down with Aidan Gomez of cohere to hear about the ways he's bringing gen AI tools to businesses to improve their bottom line cnbc.com/2024/07/06/cohā¦
Google makes custom cloud chips, used to train Gemini & #Apple AI models. We got the 1st ever on-cam tour of the lab where they test the chips + asked its top executive abt all things TPU, #Nvidia, Taiwan, power and water Daniel Newman Stacy Rasgon cnbc.com/video/2024/08/ā¦
Sounds wild, but 60% of #Amazon Prime deliveries in March came same or next day. I got an exclusive tour of a warehouse where gen AI predicts what you'll order, optimizes routes, and makes robots smarter. Power draw + ROI remain big questions. youtube.com/watch?v=7HgT-Cā¦ Sucharita Kodali