Jeff Morgan, co-founder and CEO of Ollama, said open AI models are gaining momentum as enterprises and developers seek more control, cost savings, and privacy, with Ollama now used across 80% of the F…
Qualcomm completed its acquisition of Modular, an AI software company co-founded by compiler pioneer Chris Lattner, to break Nvidia's lock-in by enabling AI models to run across different hardware. Qu…
On 18 August 2026, Modular open-sourced the Mojo compiler and toolchain under Apache 2, enabling a head-to-head comparison with tile-rs, a Rust dialect for accelerator kernels that enforces type, conc…
Qualcomm and MediaTek are preparing to launch their next-generation flagship chips, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro (SM8975) and Dimensity 9600 Pro, both fabricated on TSMC's 2nm N2P process, accordi…
AMD is adding Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express (UCIe) support to its Versal line of adaptive programmable chips, initially extending support to its RF Versal products with production chiplets ex…
Arduino has announced VENTUNO Q, a standard Ubuntu computer with up to 40 dense TOPS of AI compute, supporting models like Qwen 3 4B, Qwen 2.5 7B, Gemma 4, Whisper, and YoloX. The board features a dua…
Intel's x86 CPU market share fell 6.5% year over year to 69.3% in Q2 2026, as AMD gained ground amid a total CPU shipment downturn of more than 20%, according to Mercury Research data cited by CNN. Me…
OpenAI announced the upcoming release of o3 Mini, a lightweight AI reasoning model, on September 12, 2026. The model delivers near-state-of-the-art performance with 3x faster inference and 70% less en…
Xiaomi has launched its custom XRING O3 system-on-chip, manufactured on TSMC's 3nm N3P process, featuring a 10-core CPU with Arm C1-Ultra cores up to 4.35GHz, a 16-core G2-Ultra GPU, and a 200 TOPS NP…
Xiaomi introduced its in-house XRing O3 processor, built on TSMC's 3nm N3P process, which will debut in the Xiaomi 18 Fold and Xiaomi Pad 9 Pro Max in September. The chip features an all-big-core CPU,…
Arduino released the $299 Ventuno Q single board computer, pairing a Qualcomm Dragonwing IQ8 (IQ-8275) octa-core Edge AI SoC with an STM32H5F5 Arm Cortex-M33 microcontroller for real-time I/O. The boa…
Advantech launched the AOM-6741, a SMARC 2.2 Full Size module powered by Qualcomm's Dragonwing IQ-9075 octa-core SoC, delivering up to 100 TOPS (INT8) of AI performance, up to 36 GB LPDDR5 memory, and…
Au-Zone Technologies launched an EdgeFirst Model Zoo on August 24 with 837 validation sessions across seven YOLO repositories, linking accuracy and timing claims to public validation sessions on hardw…
Qualcomm's shares are down 5.06% year to date, but 24/7 Wall St. sets a $226.05 price target, implying 41.14% upside, citing a diversified semiconductor platform and a data center push. CEO Cristiano …
Xiaomi unveiled three TSMC-fabbed Xring chips, including the 3nm O3 flagship phone SoC, the 6nm O100 NPU for on-device MiMo LLM, and the 3nm D100 for autonomous driving, aiming to reduce reliance on Q…
Arm Holdings, a SoftBank subsidiary, announced at its 'Arm Everywhere' event in San Francisco its first production silicon, the AGI CPU, a 136-core Neoverse V3 chip for AI data centers, breaking a 35-…
Samsung Electronics expects its Exynos 2700 chip, destined for the Galaxy S27 series, to outperform Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 in CPU, GPU, and AI benchma…
The First Trust Nasdaq Semiconductor ETF (FTXL) is up roughly 76% year to date and about 134% over the last year, closing at $228, but its modified-equal-weight construction has concentrated risk: the…
PyTorch Conference North America 2026 announced its keynote speaker lineup for the October 20–21 event in San Jose, California, featuring sessions on PyTorch updates, native PyTorch on Trainium, agent…
HUMAIN, an AI company majority-owned by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, unveiled its first consumer device, the Horizon Pro AI laptop, at Qualcomm's Snapdragon Summit on September 25. Powered b…