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Shanghai-based AI chip startup Fangqing Technology has reportedly completed an A1 financing round at a valuation exceeding RMB 10 billion (approximately $1.4 billion), according to a report by the 21st Century Business H…
PaXini, an embodied-AI startup, has completed a RMB1 billion strategic funding round, bringing its cumulative fundraising to RMB3.5 billion, the company announced on Aug. 3. The round was co-led by an unnamed global cons…
Shanghai-based AI-chip startup Fangqing Technology has reportedly completed an A1 financing round at a valuation above RMB10 billion, according to a report published on Aug. 4 by 21st Century Business Herald. The report …
Counterpoint Research's Global Memory Tracker for Q2 2026 reports that DRAM chip prices are expected to rise again due to growing demand for agentic AI and AI server CPUs. Samsung regained the top spot in the DRAM market…
TSMC's Kumamoto-based JASM fab has returned to full operations after a magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck Japan's Kumamoto Prefecture on July 28, with structural inspections clean and equipment calibration completed. The fa…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang forecast that the semiconductor industry could expand to $7.9 trillion, driven by demand for agentic AI, a significant increase from its current scale. Nvidia, the largest semiconductor company by…
SK hynix and Sandisk released the first industry standard for high bandwidth flash (HBF), defining products with capacities up to 512 gigabytes and bandwidth from 0.4 to 3 terabytes per second, aiming to bridge the gap b…
Google has assembled a $44 billion financing machine to challenge Nvidia's AI chip dominance, using off-balance-sheet lease backstops to accelerate adoption of its custom Tensor Processing Units (TPUs). The Alphabet subs…
Nvidia commands over 75% of the global AI accelerator market as of mid-2026, with US entities controlling roughly 75% of global AI-ready GPU cluster performance, according to a report from Crypto Briefing. CEO Jensen Hua…
The U.S. maintains dominance in the AI race through control of infrastructure—hyperscale data centers, cloud computing, AI servers, and fiber-optic cables—rather than just models, according to a Fortune analysis. Nvidia …
Anthropic, the AI startup behind the Claude chatbot, has committed $200 billion to Google Cloud over five years for cloud services and chips, a deal representing over 40% of Google's reported cloud revenue backlog. Googl…
Chinese AI startup Moonshot is reportedly seeking greater access to Nvidia's advanced Blackwell GPUs to develop its next-generation AI model, highlighting the growing importance of computing power in the global AI race. …
Micron Technology Inc.'s entire high-bandwidth memory output for 2026 is sold out under binding multi-year contracts, and the broader memory industry is expected to remain sold out through 2027, according to analysts. SK…
Lattice Semiconductor Corp. shares rose 5.8% to close at $128.50 on Monday, hitting a 52-week high, even as the broader chip sector fell more than 20% from its summer peak. The company reported first-quarter 2026 revenue…
The AI chip boom is intensifying patent, antitrust, and geopolitical risks for Samsung Electronics and SK hynix, which face a US class action alleging they coordinated DRAM supply cuts, according to John Quinn, founder a…
China's stock traders cut leveraged bets by 14% in July, with margin debt falling to 2.59 trillion yuan ($383.4 billion) from a record 3.01 trillion yuan on June 25, according to Wind data. The unwind hit technology boar…
AMD reported second quarter 2026 revenue of $11.5 billion, up 50% year-over-year, with record profitability driven by Data Center revenue more than doubling to $6.7 billion. Non-GAAP diluted earnings per share was $1.66,…
Olix Computing Ltd., a London-based artificial intelligence hardware startup, announced it raised $312 million in a Series C round backed by Arm Holding plc and Netflix Inc. co-founder Reed Hastings, valuing the company …
Forbes Asia's Best Under A Billion 2026 list features 200 Asia-Pacific public companies with revenue between $10 million and $1 billion, with 25% from software and semiconductor-related sectors. China leads with 28 compa…
NPR reports that surging demand from AI data centers has driven up computer memory prices, with DRAM and NAND flash prices rising significantly in 2026. The price increases are attributed to the massive memory requiremen…