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SambaNova Systems, an AI chip startup founded in 2017, is in acquisition talks with Intel at a potential deal value of about $1.6 billion, according to reports from Wired and Bloomberg, contradicting an unverified claim …
South Korea will draw up a record budget of more than 800 trillion won ($530.97bn) for fiscal 2027, financed by stronger tax revenues from the booming AI chip industry, Budget Minister Park Hong-keun announced Monday. Th…
TSMC broke ground on three advanced packaging facilities in the second phase of the Chiayi Science Park in southern Taiwan, National Science and Technology Council minister Wu Cheng-wen said Sunday. The expansion targets…
At imec's ITF World 2026 conference in Antwerp, the semiconductor industry signaled a shift from transistor scaling to systems-level integration, driven by AI's demands on memory, interconnects, and power. Imec CEO Patri…
Apple has overhauled its M-Series chip plans, scrapping the M6 Pro and M6 Max to jump directly to the M7 series, with Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reporting that the M7 Ultra chip will support up to 1.5 TB of unified memory f…
South Korea expects a record tax windfall from the AI-driven semiconductor boom, boosting its 2027 tax revenue estimate to 500 trillion won ($331.6 billion), far surpassing an earlier forecast of 412.1 trillion won, Budg…
Samsung Electronics and SK hynix face a critical test of whether the memory chip boom is peaking or entering an AI-driven supercycle, with ASML and TSMC earnings this week and Big Tech results later this month set to sha…
The memory industry is emerging as a structural beneficiary of the AI era as autonomous AI agents and automation platforms drive demand for higher memory bandwidth, according to a Vault Track analysis. Local inference of…
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. reported June revenue jumped 68% year over year, reaching NT$1.27 trillion ($39.6 billion) for the second quarter, matching analyst estimates and signaling sustained AI chip demand.…
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung pledged Monday to mobilize full government resources to ensure three semiconductor and AI mega projects proceed on corporate timetables, proposing a "future response fund" to channel …
TSMC increased sales by 36% in the second quarter of 2024, with revenue reaching 1.27 trillion Taiwanese dollars ($39.6 billion), in line with analyst estimates, driven by a 68% surge in June sales year-over-year. The ch…
Researchers at Peking University have developed an all-optical interconnect system that boosts AI distributed inference speeds by over 100 times while using just one-ninth of typical computational resources, according to…
LS Electric and Infineon Technologies signed an MOU on Friday to jointly develop DC power technologies for AI data centers and next-generation power grids, aiming to reduce energy loss and improve efficiency in high-dens…
China's June export data, expected to show 18.2% year-on-year growth, is increasingly driven by AI hardware shipments, with automated data processing equipment exports surging 60% in May versus 1.9% for furniture, accord…
A new GPU inference method for large language models (LLMs) with moderate unstructured sparsity (around 50%) outperforms dense matrix multiplication on modern GPUs with high-bandwidth memory, achieving up to 1.64x kernel…
China's exports likely grew 18.2% year-on-year in June, cooling from 19.4% in May, according to a Reuters poll of 20 economists, as firms accelerated shipments to the U.S. ahead of possible tariffs and rode AI demand. Gl…
Lenovo faces scrutiny after Notebookcheck found a Chinese-made YMTC SSD in a ThinkBook 14 G9 IPL laptop destined for Germany, highlighting supply chain complexities as the Biden administration has banned YMTC on national…
SK Hynix Inc. shares fell 10% on the Korea Exchange on Monday after the memory chipmaker's American depositary receipts climbed 13% in its US trading debut Friday, with the $26.5 billion offering being the largest first-…
The Bank of Korea (BOK) said the global semiconductor market remains undersupplied and the current AI-driven supercycle is expected to continue for some time, dismissing concerns that the chip cycle has peaked. In a repo…
A new analysis from ai-2040.com explores five 'Plan A' scenarios for US-China cooperation to slow transformative AI development, including chip-level compute control, a joint international project modeled on CERN, and a …