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Semiconductors
Japanese tech conglomerate SoftBank Group has agreed to invest $2 billion in Intel, a move framed as a strategic bet on advanced semiconductor manufacturing in the United States. The deal, announced Monday after U.S. markets closed, will see SoftBank purchase Intel common stock at $23 per share, slightly below
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When Israel-based NeoLogic began work on a radically different CPU design for AI servers, industry veterans told its founders, Avi Messica and Ziv Leshem, that it couldn’t be done. “Most of the people that we have met say it’s impossible,” Messica told TechCrunch. “Some of them told us,
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In a landmark deal worth 22.8 trillion won ($16.5 billion), Samsung has secured a long-term contract to manufacture Tesla’s forthcoming A16 chip, a cornerstone of the electric vehicle company’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) future. The agreement, which will run through 2033, marks a significant shift in Samsung’
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In a landmark commitment to bolster domestic semiconductor production, Texas Instruments (TI) has announced plans to invest more than $60 billion to expand its manufacturing footprint across the United States. This investment, described by the company as the “largest investment in foundational semiconductor manufacturing in U.S. history,” will fund
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Groq, a fast-rising startup in the artificial intelligence inference space, has announced two major moves that signal a direct challenge to the dominance of cloud behemoths Amazon Web Services, Google, and Microsoft. The company unveiled support for the massive Qwen3 32B language model — including its unprecedented 131,000-token context window
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Qualcomm has announced its plan to acquire Alphawave Semi, a U.K.-based semiconductor company specializing in high-speed data center connectivity, for approximately $2.4 billion. The move signals Qualcomm's strategic push to deepen its presence in the data center and connected computing markets. In a statement, Qualcomm
Wearables
Apple is ramping up its chip development efforts to support a new wave of products, including smart glasses aimed at challenging Meta's dominance in the wearables space. The tech giant is working on a new class of processors designed to power devices ranging from AI servers and high-performance
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Imagination Technologies has launched its E-Series graphics processing units (GPUs), a next-generation family of processors designed to redefine how graphics and AI workloads are handled at the edge. Combining cutting-edge performance with energy efficiency, the E-Series marks a major step forward in on-device intelligence for markets like automotive, mobile, and
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Huawei is setting its sights on Nvidia’s stronghold in the AI hardware market with the development of a new advanced chip, the Ascend 910D. The Chinese tech giant is making significant progress on the chip and has begun reaching out to domestic partners to test it. The Ascend 910D
Manufacturing
Nvidia, the powerhouse behind the global AI chip revolution, announced a landmark initiative to manufacture its AI supercomputers entirely in the United States — a first for the company. Over the next four years, Nvidia plans to produce up to $500 billion worth of AI infrastructure through a series of strategic
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At its Cloud Next conference 2025, Google introduced Ironwood, the latest and most advanced addition to its custom-built Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) lineup. As Google’s seventh-generation TPU, Ironwood marks a pivotal evolution — purpose-built specifically for inference, the process of running and deploying AI models. Designed with the demands of
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SoftBank Group has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Ampere Computing, a Silicon Valley-based chipmaker, for $6.5 billion in an all-cash transaction. The deal, expected to close in the second half of 2025, marks a bold strategic move by SoftBank to deepen its investment in AI infrastructure and high-performance