The shares of Intel Corp. closed on Friday following a report that Microsoft Corp. it developed internal chips for its servers and surface computers. Intel INTC,
shares closed 6.3% to $ 47.46 on Friday, while shares of Advanced Micro Devices Inc. AMD,
which also causes CPUs to close 1% at $ 95.92. Microsoft MSFT,
it plans to develop a chip with PLC Arm Holdings designs for its data centers and is exploring the use of another chip to power its computers, Bloomberg reported Friday. In September, Nvidia Corp. NVDA,
offered $ 40 billion to acquire Arm from Softbank Group Corp. 9984,
Shares of Nvidia closed up 0.5% to $ 530.88. Shares of Microsoft ended up 0.4% at $ 218.59. In November, Apple Inc. AAPL,
which recently had Intel chips, launched computers with home-designed chips.