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South Korea's FuriosaAI has deployed its Renegade inference chips at Equinix's LS2 data center in Lisbon, marking the company's first commercial rollout in Europe. The chip, built on a 5-nanometer Tensor Contraction Proc…
Advanced Energy Industries launched the ADH series of DC-DC converters for 800 V DC power architectures in AI data centers, achieving 98.2% peak efficiency and up to 8 kW output. The converters address power bottlenecks …
Nvidia and a consortium of tech companies are in advanced talks to acquire a minority stake in Lancium, the power infrastructure developer behind the Stargate AI data center campus in Texas, in a deal valuing Lancium bet…
Microsoft is shifting from large AI models to smaller, specialized ones, unveiling its MAI family of models at the Build developer conference. The move aims to reduce costs and improve efficiency for tasks like coding an…
Apple faces rising costs as an AI-driven memory shortage reshapes hardware markets, with data centers expected to consume 70% of high-end memory supply by 2026. PC shipments fell 5% in Q2 2026 as memory manufacturers rea…
SK Hynix raised approximately $26.5 billion through its American Depositary Receipt offering, the largest US listing by a foreign company in history, signaling strong investor demand for AI-related memory chips. The offe…
NVIDIA's RTX 5090 offers 32GB of VRAM and 78% more memory bandwidth than the RTX 4090, but the extra performance is most noticeable for specific local LLM workloads such as running 32B models at Q4 with large context win…
Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron control 90-95% of the global DRAM market, with a class-action lawsuit alleging price manipulation as conventional DRAM prices surged 700% over four years. The HBM shortage, where SK Hynix le…
Big Tech hyperscalers are spending heavily on AI infrastructure, causing their free cash flow to turn negative, while chipmakers like Nvidia and Micron are cashing in with rising free cash flow, according to Bank of Amer…
Apple is preparing for a potential downturn in the AI industry, which is currently fueled by massive debt and unsustainable spending on data center infrastructure. The company anticipates a slowdown in AI investment by 2…
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is developing its own inference chip to reduce reliance on NVIDIA and Huawei, according to Reuters. The move aims to cut API costs and stabilize supply amid export restrictions, with custom AS…
SK Hynix debuted on the Nasdaq with a $26.5 billion share sale, the second-largest in U.S. history, as shares rose 12.8% on the first day. The listing gives U.S. investors direct access to the leading maker of high-bandw…
SK Hynix is listing on the Nasdaq in a record $26.5 billion share sale to fund high-bandwidth memory production, betting that AI demand will break the semiconductor industry's historic boom-and-bust cycle. The move aims …
A new approach to AI coordination uses field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) to enforce real-time safety and synchronization at the hardware level, addressing the limitations of software-only solutions. This shift aims …
Chinese chip startup Yuanjiwei launched the world's first 8-inch 2D semiconductor production line in Shanghai, aiming to produce chips rivaling 5nm silicon by 2029 without EUV lithography. The move escalates the US-China…
The 2026 IPO market is broadening beyond AI mega-deals, with mid-cap and overlooked sectors preparing to test investor appetite in the second half of the year. SpaceX's record-breaking $86 billion IPO dominated the first…
OpenAI, Meta, SpaceXAI, and Anthropic released new AI models in a single week, intensifying the global AI race and sparking a surge in demand for advanced chips. Chinese companies also joined the competition, highlightin…
GPU architect Raja Koduri's startup Oxmiq raised $35 million on July 1, 2026, to scale its OxCore architecture, a licensable GPU IP block that fuses CPU, GPU, and tensor engines for AI workloads. The Series A, co-led by …
Researchers introduced two CUTLASS-based kernels that accelerate the SwiGLU activation function in large language models by up to 2.47x on NVIDIA H100 GPUs, shifting workloads from memory-bound to compute-bound and achie…
SK Hynix CEO Chey Tae-won said the AI-driven memory chip shortage will last at least until 2030, as the company raised $26.5 billion in its US listing to fund capacity expansion. The South Korean chipmaker, a top supplie…