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A report that Meta is in discussions to buy billions of dollars’ worth of Alphabet’s highly specialized AI microchips has led to speculation that the Google parent could encroach on Nvidia’s dominant market share.

Amelia’s father is retired after helping build Applied Materials Inc., the country’s biggest supplier of equipment used to make microchips, into the $6-billion company that it is today.

He imagined sitting in a booth, getting injected with microchips.

And then, in the 1970s, microchips got much faster and cheaper.

The deal, which was announced in early 2024 and closed in July, expanded the company’s reach in simulation software for designers of microchips, cars and airplanes.