Eliyan, a Santa Clara chiplet interconnect company, introduced NuLink-XD on July 24, a 224G PAM4 SerDes for chip-to-chip and chip-to-module links, claiming 50% less power than typical long-reach SerDe…
Eliyan, led by founder Ramin Farjadrad, launched NuLink-XD on July 24, 2026, a 224G PAM4 SerDes architecture for AI scale-up interconnects, following a $50 million strategic investment round disclosed…
Eliyan Corporation, a Santa Clara-based semiconductor startup founded in 2021, has raised $145 million at a $1 billion valuation to develop chiplet interconnect technology that eliminates data bottlen…
Ajinomoto, a Japanese food company best known for MSG, controls over 95% of the Ajinomoto Build-up Film (ABF) used as a dielectric layer in every high-performance CPU and GPU, making it a critical but…
Global chip stocks fell roughly 13% in July, erasing over $1 trillion in market value in the worst monthly performance since 2022, as investors question whether the AI spending boom can sustain lofty …
Singapore startup Acrab announced its GELIX 1 edge AI system-on-chip and Agent Box reference system on July 23, targeting local inference for models in the 100-billion-parameter class. Acrab says the …
Nvidia and Google are converging their flagship AI chips on TSMC's N3 node, which TSMC says will remain tight for multiple years, creating an opening for Intel's 18A and 14A processes. TSMC's N3 capac…
A survey of over 1,700 Android Authority readers found that 69.2% believe Google should cancel its Tensor chipset project, citing poor battery management, heat output, and waning performance. However,…
Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan acknowledged the company must catch up to rivals AMD and Arm, aiming to 'leapfrog' them in CPU architecture, during Intel's Q2 earnings call where it reported $16.1 billion revenu…
Agentic AI shifts the infrastructure bottleneck from GPU token throughput to CPU-bound task orchestration, according to Arm. A single developer prompt to an AI coding agent triggers request parsing, p…
The Arm MCP Server has surpassed 10,000 Docker downloads in under a year, reflecting growing developer adoption of agentic AI workflows that integrate Arm tools into AI assistants like Amazon Kiro, Cl…
Beijing aims to add 50,000 petaflops of intelligent computing power in the second half of 2026, pushing total capacity over 130,000 petaflops by year-end, the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Economy and I…
NVIDIA has unveiled its Vera CPU, a custom Arm-based server processor built on the 'Olympus' microarchitecture, designed specifically for agentic AI workloads. The chip aims to redefine server CPU per…
SoftBank Group is reportedly preparing to raise up to $60bn in fresh debt to fund its swelling bet on OpenAI, a target that would eclipse any previous bond sale by the Japanese conglomerate. The plan …
Arm architecture powers the world's most advanced and energy-efficient supercomputers, with the TOP500's new #1 system LineShine becoming the first to exceed two exaflops of sustained double-precision…
AGIBOT, a robotics company founded three years ago, has moved from demonstrations to deploying humanoid and quadruped robots in industrial environments, with Arm providing the common compute foundatio…
AMD and Intel have co-authored the ACE (AI Compute Extensions) specification, a jointly owned matrix ISA for x86 that freezes a new instruction set aimed at inference-friendly formats and outer-produc…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warned that AI users pay a 'double cost' of money and 'unique knowledge,' validating Japan's industrial policy of pursuing domestic AI to control data sovereignty and intel…
The x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group has released a whitepaper and specification for ACE (AI Compute Extensions), a new accelerator type for Intel's AMX instruction set that introduces outer product instr…
PyTorch 2.13 has been released with performance improvements including FlexAttention on Apple Silicon with up to 12x speedups, a CuTeDSL backend for Inductor, and fused nn.LinearCrossEntropyLoss reduc…