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Google Coral and Hailo-8 TPUs cannot run large language models because they are designed for vision tasks, lacking the memory bandwidth and capacity required for LLM inference. Hailo's new Hailo-10 chip addresses this li…
Infineon Technologies opened its €5 billion smart power fab in Dresden three months ahead of schedule, leveraging a 'one virtual fab' concept with digital twins and standardized global operations. The facility will produ…
Anthropic is in early talks with Samsung Electronics to manufacture a custom AI processor, according to Bloomberg Technology and The Information. The move signals Anthropic's intent to control hardware supply and perform…
Intel pivoted toward energy-efficient AI inference hardware at Computex on June 2, betting that rising data center power consumption will drive demand for Xeon-based systems over Nvidia's training GPUs. The strategy, whi…
Amazon confirmed it designs its own AI chips, the AZ3 and AZ3 Pro, for Echo and Fire TV devices, improving wake word detection by over 50% and enabling on-device AI processing. Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo reported Amazon plans …
President Lee Jae Myung defended his government's three megaprojects—semiconductors, physical AI, and AI data centers—as a long-term national transformation plan, not a bid to boost approval ratings. Samsung and SK hynix…
Startups like Starcloud are racing to build AI data centers in orbit, with Starcloud launching a satellite carrying an Nvidia H100 GPU that trained a language model in space. The company raised $170 million at a $1.1 bil…
OpenAI and Broadcom unveiled the Jalapeño inference chip, targeting 50% cheaper AI per-token costs for developers. The chip aims to reduce AI inference expenses significantly, with a timeline and key details for develope…
Micron broke ground on a $9.3 billion expansion of its Hiroshima plant to produce high bandwidth memory for Nvidia's AI chips, aiming to challenge SK Hynix's dominant market share. The project, subsidized by Japan's gove…
Micron Technology broke ground on a $9.3 billion expansion of its Hiroshima, Japan factory to produce advanced memory chips for AI processors, with shipments expected around summer 2028. The Japanese government has alloc…
Micron Technology broke ground on a ¥1.5 trillion ($9.6 billion) expansion of its Hiroshima, Japan factory to produce high-bandwidth memory chips for AI applications, with construction starting in May 2026 and shipments …
SK Hynix plans to list American depositary receipts on the Nasdaq under ticker SKHY around July 10, aiming to raise up to $29.65 billion in the largest ADR offering in over two decades. The listing comes as the company's…
AMD's Instinct MI355X achieves roughly 80% of NVIDIA B200 throughput on GLM-5.2 inference at over 2x lower cost, delivering more than 2x better tokens-per-dollar after hand-tuning the ROCm software stack. Independent tes…
Raja Koduri's startup OXMIQ raised $35 million in Series A funding on July 1 to license its OxCore GPU architecture, aiming to let developers run CUDA code on non-NVIDIA hardware without changes. The round was co-led by …
The Philadelphia Stock Exchange Semiconductor Index fell 6.3% on July 1, 2026, its steepest single-day drop, as AI-memory stocks Micron and Sandisk each dropped about 10% and equipment makers KLA, Lam Research, and Appli…
Over $610 billion in AI hardware capital expenditure was committed globally in a single week, including South Korea's $550B memory fab investment, Japan's $6B for AI model development, and Qualcomm's new HBM-independent …
Two former Harvard students, dissatisfied with expert claims that a dedicated inference chip is physically impossible, founded Etched and raised $800 million to build an ASIC for transformer model inference. The story hi…
Inference startup Wafer claims it achieved 80% of Nvidia B200 performance on AMD MI355X GPUs running GLM-5.2, with 2.6x cheaper hardware, by optimizing the software stack. The benchmark, published by Wafer, shows 2626 to…
Austria's MUSICA supercomputer, featuring 1,088 NVIDIA H100 GPUs delivering 45.11 petaflops, was inaugurated on July 3, 2026, marking an eightfold increase over previous systems. The EUR 45 million system integrates clas…
Wafer served GLM5.2 on AMD MI355X GPUs at 2626 tokens per second per node with over 2x lower cost than NVIDIA Blackwell, achieving 213 tok/s single stream. The company used MXFP4 quantization via AMD Quark and sglang inf…