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Lenovo's Legion 7i Gen 10 gaming laptop offers a sleek design, crisp OLED display, and great keyboard but is held back by an RTX 5060 GPU that underperforms against similarly priced competitors like the Acer Predator Hel…
Major Korean conglomerates including Hanwha, Hyundai, Samsung, SK, LG and Doosan announced a combined 312 trillion won ($204 billion) in investment plans for the Yeongnam region, targeting AI, robotics, data centers, aer…
SpaceX is pursuing a multi-billion dollar AI deal that would integrate massive compute clusters into its operations, signaling a strategic shift toward treating AI compute as a core resource alongside launch capacity. Th…
TrendForce reports that DRAM contract prices will rise 13-18% QoQ in 3Q26 due to tight supply from AI server demand, while NAND Flash prices will increase 10-15% QoQ as consumer demand weakens and high base effects moder…
Kioxia Holdings has begun shipping samples of its next-generation 332-layer 3D flash memory chips to AI data center operators, aiming to capture a larger share of the growing market. The new chips offer 59% more storage …
Anthropic is in early-stage talks with Samsung Electronics to manufacture a custom AI accelerator chip, The Information reported on July 2, 2026. The move follows OpenAI's custom chip and reflects AI labs' push to reduce…
AMD announced the acceleration of large-scale LLM inference on its Instinct MI350X/MI355X GPUs using Eagle3 speculative decoding and AMD Quark quantization. The work enables lossless inference speedups for models like Ki…
Kioxia Corporation announced sample shipments of 1 Tb TLC memory devices using its 10th-generation BiCS FLASH 3D flash memory technology, targeting enterprise and data center SSDs for AI storage. The new devices achieve …
NVIDIA announced that its Confidential Computing technology for Blackwell GPUs achieves up to 98% of the inference performance of non-secure solutions, enabling hardware-rooted AI security without significant slowdown. T…
NVIDIA is launching a revenue-sharing and credit-support model with AI cloud partners to accelerate large-scale AI factory deployments. The model allows partners to build and operate DSX AI factories while NVIDIA earns s…
NVIDIA and its partners announced a $500 billion commitment to build AI infrastructure across the United States, with semiconductor production underway at TSMC's Arizona facility and new AI systems factories in Texas. Th…
Governor Greg Abbott awarded a $24.2 million Texas Semiconductor Innovation Fund grant to FormFactor Inc. for a new probe card manufacturing facility in Farmers Branch, Texas. The company will invest $140 million to $170…
Apple's upcoming 'MacBook Ultra' will use M5 Pro and M5 Max chips, disappointing some users. The iPhone 18 and iPhone 18e are rumored to feature 9GB RAM and an A20 chip. A cyberattack at Apple supplier Tata leaked confid…
OpenAI engineers have developed optimization techniques that cut AI inference costs by more than 50%, reducing hardware footprint and easing infrastructure pressures. The breakthrough, driven by strategies like KV cachin…
Anthropic is in talks with Samsung to manufacture a custom AI chip, aiming to address chip shortages and reduce reliance on Nvidia. The company has not yet determined the chip's specifications or use case, and continues …
Samsung and SK hynix announced a 1,350 trillion won ($870 billion) ten-year plan to expand semiconductor manufacturing capacity and data centers, including memory, storage, and logic production. The South Korean governme…
Intel, TSMC, SK Hynix, Samsung, Micron, Marvell, Lightmatter, and Microsoft disclosed advanced packaging technologies at ECTC 2026, including Intel's EMIB-T with 36/35 µm bump pitch and plans for 25 µm, Marvell's custom …
Infineon Technologies opened a five-billion-euro smart power fab in Dresden, Germany, highlighting that power delivery, not just compute density, is becoming the key bottleneck for AI scaling. The facility, supported by …
General Motors has signed a long-term agreement with Micron for the supply of DRAM and NAND chips, securing critical memory technologies for its next-generation vehicles with AI-enabled features and advanced driver assis…
Intel engineers posted initial GCC compiler patches for the AI Compute Extensions (ACE), a cross-vendor x86 specification for optimizing AI and machine learning workloads. The ACE specification, developed by the x86 Ecos…