Rep. John Moolenaar, the Michigan Republican chairing the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, is urging the Commerce Department to impose tighter export controls on advanced AI chip…
Republican Congressman John Moolenaar, chair of the House Select Committee on China, urged the Trump administration to enforce a Biden-era rule requiring chip manufacturers to scrutinize advanced chip…
AMD has acquired Canadian AI chip startup Taalas to integrate its technology into AMD Instinct GPUs for more efficient inference workloads. Financial terms were not disclosed. Taalas, founded in Augus…
President Lee Jae Myung ordered the relocation of military operations from Gwangju Air Base to other airfields by mid-2028 to accelerate construction of a second semiconductor belt in the Honam region…
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), the world's leading contract chipmaker, reported July sales of 467.58 billion Taiwan dollars (about $14.5 billion), a 45% year-over-year increase, signal…
TSMC reported a 45% year-over-year increase in July 2026 monthly sales, following a June revenue of NT$442.68 billion (up 67.9% YoY), and raised its full-year 2026 revenue growth outlook to slightly a…
Sony Semiconductor Solutions and TSMC signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding on May 8, 2026, to form a joint venture in Japan targeting next-generation image sensors for autonomous vehicles …
AMD acquired Toronto-based Taalas on August 6, a chip startup that hardwires AI model weights into silicon using Mask ROM, eliminating the memory bottleneck. Taalas's HC1 chip, built on TSMC's 6nm pro…
Anthropic confirmed on August 5 that it is building an in-house silicon team to co-design Claude and custom AI inference chips, aiming to cut per-token inference costs by roughly 50%, with Samsung rep…
AMD announced a definitive agreement on August 6, 2026, to acquire Toronto-based AI-chip startup Taalas, adding model-specific inference silicon to its AI roadmap; financial terms were not disclosed. …
AMD announced on August 6, 2026, a definitive agreement to acquire Taalas, a Toronto-based startup that embeds AI models directly into silicon, to integrate its technology into AMD's accelerator roadm…
Apple's M6 MacBook Pro is expected to ship in fall 2026, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, with the M6 chip built on TSMC's 2nm process and featuring a redesigned GPU with up to 12 cores, updated …
Global semiconductor sales surged 35% year-over-year in Q2 2026, led by the Americas, Asia Pacific, and China, according to industry data. China's sales jumped 112.8%, signaling a self-sustaining, dec…
The global computer microchip market is projected to nearly triple to $74.70 billion by 2035 from $30.03 billion in 2025, growing at 9.54% annually, according to SNS Insider data released via GlobeNew…
GlobalFoundries reported second-quarter revenue of $1.73 billion, beating Wall Street's consensus estimate of $1.71 billion, driven by accelerating demand for its chips in AI data centers. Net income …
Global shares advanced Wednesday after Wall Street hit fresh records, with Japan's Nikkei 225 jumping 3.7% and South Korea's Kospi rising 3.8% on gains in AI-related chipmakers. Oil prices resumed the…
Broadcom and Nvidia have moved co-packaged optics (CPO) into production, with Broadcom's Tomahawk 5-Bailly as the first volume-production CPO solution and Nvidia's Spectrum-X Ethernet Photonics switch…
TSMC is on track to reach a monthly capacity of nearly 100,000 2nm wafers by the end of this year, driven by strong demand from AI customers such as Nvidia, AMD, and Broadcom, according to Taiwan's Ec…
Asian shares surged and oil prices eased Wednesday after U.S. stocks rallied to records on strong corporate earnings and hopes for a Middle East deal. Japan's Nikkei 225 gained 3.3%, Seoul's Kospi jum…
Jane Street has released a new puzzle challenging participants to reverse engineer an ASIC from its GDS layout, recover the netlist, determine the chip's purpose, and find a hidden string output. The …