AI Chips

AMD has optimized MiniMax-M3 inference on Instinct MI355X GPUs using ATOM, AITER, and ATOMesh, achieving improvements in serving throughput, token latency, and accuracy through online quantization, sparse attention, FP8 …

NVIDIA's NVLink and NVSwitch technologies form a scale-up fabric that connects GPUs tightly enough to behave as a single machine, contrasting with scale-out fabrics like InfiniBand and RoCE that link separate machines. T…

Google is developing a new chip designed to run its Gemini AI models more efficiently, according to a report from The Information. The chip, which has not been officially announced, aims to reduce the cost and energy con…

Google has bet its inference future on a custom chip built specifically for one model, the company announced. The chip, called the Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) v5p, is designed to optimize inference for large language mo…

Google is developing a server chip codenamed Frozen v2, slated for a 2028 launch, to optimize its Gemini AI model and reduce reliance on third-party chip makers like Nvidia, according to a report. The chip is expected to…

Alphabet is designing a new server chip, internally dubbed 'Frozen v2,' to make its Gemini AI models more efficient, with a planned release in 2028. The chip could be six to ten times more efficient than Google's existin…

Raymond James Investment Management chief market strategist Matt Orton predicts artificial intelligence capital expenditure will surpass $1 trillion by 2027, driven by strong cloud monetization and capacity constraints, …

Microsoft Corp. will use Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s upcoming Helios rack design, featuring 72 Instinct MI455 GPUs with 432 GB of HBM4 memory and CDNA 5 architecture, to power new Azure ND MI455X v7 instances optimized…

Infinity Inc., an early-stage AI infrastructure research company, raised $15 million in seed funding at a $100 million post-money valuation to develop its Ignition AI agent that automatically generates software for runni…

Infinity, a San Francisco-based AI infrastructure startup, announced a $15 million seed round at a $100 million post-money valuation to scale its platform that automates the adaptation of inference software for any AI ch…

AMD launched its new Helios AI rack server platform on Monday, intensifying its competition with Nvidia in the AI hardware market, Yahoo Finance reported. The chipmaker's latest offering targets data-center customers see…

The massive supply deals fueling the AI boom face significant uncertainty, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis. Long-term contracts for AI chips and data center capacity may not deliver expected returns as demand…

Edge AI workloads, particularly reasoning models and agentic systems, fail when memory capacity is exhausted, a problem traditional architectures cannot solve, according to a technical analysis by EE Times. The Qwen 3.5 …

Beijing-based AI company Z.AI has activated a 1-gigawatt data center running entirely on domestically produced semiconductors, purpose-built to train its GLM AI platforms without Nvidia chips. The facility marks a turnin…

Google is developing 'Frozen v2,' a server chip that bakes the Gemini architecture directly into hardware, which internal sources say could be 6 to 10 times more efficient than current TPUs. Scheduled for 2028, the chip …

OneXPlayer has opened pre-orders for the X2 Mini Pro, a 3-in-1 gaming handheld powered by AMD's Ryzen AI Max+ 388 APU and Radeon 8060S iGPU, starting at $2,499. The device features up to 64 GB of RAM, an 8.8-inch 144 Hz …

Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion-parameter open-weight AI model that sparked US tech stock declines, has paused new subscriptions due to overwhelming demand exceeding GPU capacity. The Chinese company said it is add…

Best Buy is offering ASUS' Zenbook A16 Copilot+ PC with a Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme processor and 48GB of RAM for $1,549.99, marking the first discount on this laptop and the first deal on any Copilot+ PC with the new …

Fluidstack raised $830 million in a Series A funding round at a $7.5 billion valuation, led by Situational Awareness, to expand AI infrastructure for Anthropic and other labs. The UK-founded neocloud provider converts fo…

Microsoft will deploy AMD's Helios rack-scale AI platform at scale on Azure, making it the first hyperscaler to publicly commit to the platform. The deployment, expected to begin in the second half of 2026, targets AI in…