AI Chips

Google will pay SpaceX $920 million per month from October 2026 through June 2029 for access to 110,000 Nvidia GPUs, in a deal worth roughly $30 billion. The agreement, disclosed in a regulatory filing Friday, comes one …

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced at Computex 2026 that the company has increased its annual spending in Taiwan from $10-15 billion to $150 billion, reinforcing the island's role as the world's most strategically importa…

A new cryptocurrency project called Pearl is marketing itself as a "useful" proof-of-work AI mining network, but evidence suggests it is actually running standard PoW computations disguised as AI inference. Miners on the…

Hon Hai Precision Industry, known as Foxconn, posted a 34% year-over-year revenue increase for the April-to-May 2026 period, reaching NT$1.69 trillion ($53.6B), driven by surging demand for Nvidia-powered AI servers. AI …

SpaceX has signed a $920 million per month deal to lease AI computing capacity to Google, providing the tech giant access to 110,000 Nvidia chips for its Gemini Enterprise platform, according to an SEC filing. The agreem…

PC makers including HP and Lenovo, alongside Microsoft, are partnering with Nvidia to challenge Apple's dominance in the laptop market. The collaboration aims to close the gap with Apple's MacBook by integrating Nvidia's…

A coalition of leading industry associations sent a joint letter to Secretaries Lutnick and Bessent warning that surging demand from AI data centers is constraining memory chip supply, driving price increases, and creati…

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is reinforcing its "silicon shield" strategy with a $250 billion US investment deal set for January 2026, while keeping its most advanced 2nm chip production in Taiwan through the e…

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced the recruitment launch for a new research and development center in South Korea during a visit around June 5, 2026, marking the chipmaker's first publicly recognized R&D facility in the …

NVIDIA and Microsoft introduced the NVIDIA RTX Spark superchip at GTC Taipei on May 31, 2026, powering a new class of Windows laptops and compact desktops designed for on-device AI agents. The platform pairs a Blackwell …

Mira Murati, former OpenAI CTO, broke an 18-month public silence on June 4 at Bloomberg Tech 2026 in San Francisco to unveil the roadmap for her AI startup, Thinking Machines Lab. The company, which secured a record $2 b…

Amundi, Europe’s largest asset manager overseeing €2.4 trillion, predicts Asia’s AI-driven stock rally will continue, citing strong earnings and reasonable valuations in South Korean and Taiwanese tech firms. The firm wa…

Apple's Mac Studio with M3 Ultra, offering up to 512 GB of unified memory at 819 GB/s, is the most practical desktop solution for running large local AI models like 70B to 400B-class quants without multi-GPU setups. Owne…

Summer Game Fest 2026 unveiled trailers for major upcoming titles including the Resident Evil: Code Veronica remake, Final Fantasy 7 Revelation, and Star Wars Zero Company. The showcase arrives as publishers avoid a Nove…

Nvidia's upcoming RTX Spark desktop, priced between $3,000 and $5,000, may not deliver the performance leap over the existing DGX Spark that marketing suggests, according to a skeptical analysis from Digital Spaceport. O…

Broadcom CEO Hock Tan announced on June 5 the company is shifting from its acquisition-heavy strategy to organic growth, driven by surging AI demand. The semiconductor giant reported roughly $20 billion in AI chip revenu…

NVIDIA, startup Span, and homebuilder PulteGroup partnered in May to deploy XFRA nodes — liquid-cooled, fanless data center units containing 16 NVIDIA GPUs — mounted on residential exterior walls. The units tap unused el…

ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) won approval last week for a nearly 30-billion-yuan ($4.4 billion) IPO in Shanghai, while Yangtze Memory Technologies Corp. (YMTC) has begun IPO preparations and could submit a listing…

Huawei announced a chip design framework called LogicFolding and a theoretical scaling principle, projecting transistor density equivalent to 1.4-nanometer processes by 2031 despite US export controls. Shares of Semicond…

U.S. stocks plunged Friday, with the Nasdaq suffering its worst selloff since April 2025 after a strong jobs report fueled fears the Federal Reserve will hike interest rates, compounding existing worries that the artific…