ChipAgents, a startup building AI agents that design and test semiconductors and a partner of Nvidia, has raised $60 million, bringing its total funding to roughly $134 million in under a year. The co…
Chip design startup ChipAgents has raised an additional $60 million to expand its Series A round, bringing total funding to $131 million, to accelerate semiconductor development with autonomous AI age…
ChipAgents, an AI startup, extended its Series A funding to $134 million with backing from Micron and MediaTek, driven by sixfold annual recurring revenue growth.…
OpenAI's first hardware device is a portable, screenless AI smart speaker co-developed with former Apple design chief Jony Ive, expected in early 2027 at a price between $200 and $300. The company is …
South Korea's KOSPI index sank more than 10% on Tuesday as shares in memory-chip giants Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix plunged as much as 13.4% and 14%, respectively, driven by investor concerns ove…
Qualcomm will raise smartphone processor prices by a double-digit percentage after September 1, driven by rising manufacturing and memory costs that have increased smartphone bill-of-materials costs b…
A leak from Mystic Leaks suggests Google's Pixel 11a will feature a flagship-grade Tensor G6 processor, reversing the Pixel 10a's downgrade to a previous-generation chip. The Tensor G6 is also rumored…
The Lenovo Chromebook Plus 14, priced at $1,269.99, offers a premium build with an OLED touch screen and a MediaTek Kompanio Ultra 910 processor featuring a 50 TOPS NPU, but its high cost and middling…
Microsoft is hiring engineers and researchers for its Future AI Infrastructure (FAI) team in Cambridge, England, to develop optical and photonic interconnects aimed at breaking through bandwidth, late…
Chinese AI company StepFun has unveiled the StepX Neo, calling it the world's first 'large-model native agentic smartphone' built around AI from the ground up. The device runs on StepFun's native Step…
Morgan Stanley analysts led by Joseph Moore defended Broadcom's role in Google's TPU supply chain, projecting TPU shipments will reach 3.2 million units in 2026 and 5 million in 2027, with the partner…
OpenAI's first consumer device will be a portable smart speaker without a screen, designed as a humanlike AI companion for the home, according to a Bloomberg report. The device, still in development, …
OpenAI still plans to announce its AI hardware this year and launch it in 2027, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, despite a lawsuit from Apple accusing OpenAI and two former Apple employees of ste…
Apple has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, accusing the AI company of stealing trade secrets to develop a rival device to the iPhone. …
TSMC broke ground on three advanced packaging facilities in the second phase of the Chiayi Science Park in southern Taiwan, National Science and Technology Council minister Wu Cheng-wen said Sunday. T…
Google's upcoming Tensor G6 chip sacrifices CPU and GPU performance to prioritize on-device AI processing, with a new TPU and image signal processor designed to run Google's AI models locally. Critics…
GPU architect Raja Koduri's startup Oxmiq raised $35 million on July 1, 2026, to scale its OxCore architecture, a licensable GPU IP block that fuses CPU, GPU, and tensor engines for AI workloads. The …
Smartphones are evolving into 'agent phones' that automate multi-step tasks, with Counterpoint Research forecasting that over 80% of premium smartphones will have agentic AI capabilities by 2027. Chip…
Ericsson, AT&T, and MediaTek completed a North American field trial of 5G-Advanced low-latency mobility technology, reducing data interruption during cell handovers by up to 25%. The trial aims to ena…
Nvidia announced its RTX Spark ARM-based chip at Computex, positioning it as a new category for thin laptops and mini PCs rather than a replacement for x86 gaming desktops. The chip, made with MediaTe…