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Applied Materials Inc. surged 15% in a single trading session but remains more than 30% below its previous highs, driven by AI chip demand. The semiconductor equipment maker posted record revenue of $7.91 billion for Q2 …
Intel Corp. now expects a profitable year as early as 2025 or 2026, ahead of its previous 2028 target, driven by a 59% surge in Data Center and AI revenue. The company reported Q2 2026 revenue of $16.1 billion, a 25% yea…
Apple Inc. shares plunged nearly 10 percent on Friday, erasing almost $500 billion in market value after the company issued a disappointing revenue growth forecast of 9 to 11 percent for the current quarter, falling shor…
Microsoft Corp. expanded its artificial intelligence partnership with Nvidia Corp., boosting the RTX Spark AI superchip platform for Windows devices, which delivers up to 1 petaflop of AI performance. The collaboration s…
Apple's M5 MacBook Air, reviewed by Mashable, earns a Mashable Choice Award despite a price increase from $1,099 to $1,299 for the 13-inch model due to the global memory crisis. The laptop features an M5 chip with a 10-c…
Nvidia has launched Vera, its first fully-custom CPU, challenging Intel and AMD's dominance in the datacenter CPU market. The chip features 88 custom Armv9.2 cores, 176 threads, and support for up to 1.5 TB of LPDDR5X me…
NXP Semiconductors is in talks to acquire Ambarella, the edge AI chip specialist behind vision processors for automotive cameras and self-driving systems, in a deal that could value Ambarella at roughly $3.3 billion. The…
Intel reported second-quarter revenue of $16.1 billion on July 23, up 25% year-over-year, its strongest growth in over 15 years, driven by a 59% jump in Data Center and AI revenue to $6.3 billion. The company swung to no…
Nvidia Corp. is reportedly guaranteeing $250 billion in third-party financing for OpenAI data-center expansion, a sum equal to roughly 80% of Nvidia's annual revenue, according to a skeptical analysis. The deal would mak…
South Korea's exports surged 62.8% in July to $98.89 billion, beating economist forecasts, driven by a 179% jump in semiconductor exports and a 404% surge in computer exports, according to preliminary customs data. The g…
Renesas Electronics has restored production at its Nishiki chip assembly and test facility in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan, on July 29, 2026, one day after a significant earthquake struck the region on July 28. The company…
Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet, and Meta have collectively committed nearly $2.4 trillion in data center spending through 2030, with combined capital expenditure guidance of about $725 billion for 2026 alone, a 77% year-ove…
SK Hynix reported a record second-quarter operating profit of 60.54 trillion won, up 557% year-over-year, with revenue of 79.32 trillion won and an operating margin of about 76%, yet its stock sold off because the result…
Alphabet, Meta Platforms, Microsoft, and Amazon are collectively investing nearly $2.4 trillion in AI infrastructure, with Morgan Stanley projecting a $1.5 trillion financing gap that private credit markets will need to …
Amazon completed its $50 billion investment in OpenAI, the largest piece of OpenAI's record $110 billion financing round announced February 27 at a $730 billion pre-money valuation, according to the Financial Times. The …
Nvidia is in talks to guarantee up to $250 billion in financing for OpenAI's data center projects, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal. The potential deal would involve Nvidia providing financial backing to …
Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI reportedly trained its 2.8 trillion parameter Kimi K3 model using Nvidia's high-end GB300 chips acquired in Thailand, circumventing US export controls, according to White House OSTP Directo…
NVIDIA Corporation CEO Jensen Huang's 2024 claim that its Blackwell GPUs would reduce large language model inference operating costs and energy by up to 25x has been pared back to 10x, a 150% overstatement, according to …
Amazon's custom chip business, spanning Trainium and Graviton, has exceeded a $25 billion annual revenue run rate with triple-digit year-over-year growth, according to Amazon CEO Andy Jassy. Trainium3 delivers up to 40% …
Hygon Information Technology Co., Ltd. has unveiled a 512-thread x86 CPU and an AI GPU, positioning itself as a potential rival to Intel Corporation's Xeon processors and Nvidia Corporation's datacenter accelerators. The…