UCLA Samueli School of Engineering launched a $125 million semiconductor hub with Broadcom, Applied Materials, GlobalFoundries, Meta, and Synopsys to accelerate AI-powered chip research and workforce …
South Korean AI silicon startup Rebellions is prioritizing memory-centric architecture in its technology roadmap, leveraging strategic ties with SK Hynix and Samsung Foundry as it explores IPO options…
RISC-V International announced at the RISC-V Summit Europe 2026 in Bologna that its open-standard instruction set architecture has matured beyond microcontrollers and now targets data centers, edge AI…
PALO ALTO, Calif. — Startup Ricursive, founded by the former leads of Google's AlphaChip project, announced plans to develop an end-to-end AI model for chip design, aiming to transform the industry by…
The "Memory Wall" bottleneck, originally coined in the 1990s to describe the speed gap between processors and DRAM, has re-emerged in the AI era as DRAM and high-bandwidth memory (HBM) struggle to mee…
The rapid buildout of AI infrastructure has created a structural shortage of DRAM and NAND flash memory, causing enterprise IT budgets to become unpredictable and server costs to rise by over 125% in …
Efinix has launched the Titanium Edge family of FPGAs for edge AI applications, based on soft or hard RISC-V cores with AI instruction extensions. The company's XLR logic cell dynamically reconfigures…
Tesla's full self-driving software, the first large-scale deployment of end-to-end AI in a physical system, has demonstrated that the probabilistic, data-driven engineering approach carries inherent r…
Computex 2026 in Taipei shifted its focus from AI PCs to agentic AI, with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang declaring during his opening keynote that "agentic AI and useful AI have arrived." Nvidia unveiled its…
At Computex 2026 in Taipei, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang drew mobs of attendees seeking selfies and autographs, reflecting the electronics industry's transformation into a rock-and-roll era driven by geopo…
The European Commission released its Chips Act 2.0 proposal on June 3, shifting the focus from manufacturing capacity to demand-driven semiconductor policy. The new strategy aims to strengthen Europe'…
Netrasemi has begun supplying engineering samples of its A2000 edge AI chip to select customers, marking the first full-feature system-on-chip developed by the startup. The 12-nanometer chip, built on…
Infineon is hosting a practical webinar on July 9, 2026, to help engineers and procurement professionals navigate the AI-driven memory super cycle. The session will address supply challenges like long…
JEDEC is updating its LPDDR6 memory standard to include features tailored for AI data centers, including a narrower x6 per-die interface to double memory densities and a new SOCAMM2 module standard. T…
Taiwan's National Science and Technology Council Minister Cheng-Wen Wu outlined a national strategy to sustain the country's semiconductor leadership by focusing on silicon photonics, wide-bandgap sem…