AI Chips

Etched, a chip startup founded by three Harvard dropouts, closed a $300 million Series C at a $10.3 billion valuation on July 23, led by Sequoia, to produce its Sohu ASIC that hardwires transformer model inference into s…

SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won said Anthropic asked SK to supply materials for making its own AI chips, according to a Bloomberg report. The request signals Anthropic's push to reduce reliance on Nvidia and develop custo…

Nvidia and SK Group announced a $500 billion-plus strategic partnership on July 24-25, 2026, covering a 2-gigawatt AI factory in South Korea and a long-term memory co-development pact with SK Hynix that locks in supply a…

Samsung Electronics and Broadcom signed a memorandum of understanding worth more than $200 billion for AI memory, foundry and advanced packaging through 2030, announced at an AI summit in San Francisco hosted by South Ko…

Nvidia has secured a contract with South Korea's SK Hynix, potentially worth $500 billion over several years, to ensure supply of high-bandwidth memory (HBM) chips critical for AI computing. The deal, announced at an AI …

South Korea announced $950 billion in new AI initiatives involving Samsung Electronics, SK Group and U.S. tech firms, including a $500 billion partnership between SK Hynix and Nvidia, as global AI leaders rush to secure …

Samsung Electronics signed a memorandum of understanding with Broadcom valued at over $200 billion to supply high-bandwidth memory and 2-nanometer foundry services for Broadcom's next-generation AI chips through 2030, ma…

SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics have signed long-term memory chip supply deals with Nvidia and Broadcom totaling $950 billion, with SK Hynix supplying $750 billion primarily to Nvidia and Samsung contributing $200 billi…

South Korean conglomerates and global tech firms, including Nvidia Corp., agreed Friday on cooperation projects worth $950 billion, presidential chief of staff for policy Kim Yong-beom said. SK Group will supply $750 bil…

China's government has become the dominant force in tech venture capital, with state-backed investors participating in over 140 AI deals in 2025, a 15-fold increase from fewer than 10 per year before 2018, according to t…

Google is overhauling its global data center architecture to support autonomous AI agents, which require persistent, multi-step processing. The company's facilities now process over 3 quadrillion tokens monthly, a sevenf…

South Korean and US technology giants agreed to pursue $950 billion in semiconductor supply and manufacturing partnerships over the next five years, announced during President Lee Jae Myung's visit to San Francisco. Sams…

SK Group and NVIDIA announced a $500-billion-plus comprehensive partnership to build AI infrastructure, including a 2-gigawatt NVIDIA Vera Rubin DSX AI Factory by SK Telecom and a long-term AI memory partnership with SK …

NAVER, NVIDIA and Brookfield announced a planned expansion of Korea's sovereign AI factory infrastructure to 200 megawatts, more than tripling the 55-megawatt buildout announced last month, with NAVER intending to expand…

Nvidia will invest US$1 billion in Naver to help finance an AI data centre in South Korea, more than tripling the facility's size, and expand its partnership with SK Group to build over 2 gigawatts of AI data centres on …

Anthropic, the company behind the Claude AI models, has approached SK Hynix about securing high-bandwidth memory chip supplies to support its push into custom semiconductor development. The move follows Anthropic's $65 b…

Nvidia has secured a supply agreement for high-bandwidth memory from SK Hynix as part of a broader $500 billion AI infrastructure deal, ensuring critical components for its GPUs and AI systems.

Japan is establishing artificial intelligence dialogue frameworks with India, Malaysia, and other like-minded countries to reduce reliance on top US and Chinese AI firms and promote domestic companies abroad, signaling a…

Nvidia and SK Group announced a partnership worth over $500 billion on July 24 to build AI data centers and next-generation memory infrastructure, representing one of the largest single commitments to AI infrastructure. …

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung will host an AI summit in San Francisco on July 25 with CEOs from Nvidia, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Broadcom, aiming to position South Korea as a cornerstone of the global AI supply chai…