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Tensordyne, a Sunnyvale startup, announced its Napier (TDN) AI inference processor on June 15, claiming its TDN72 rack system delivers 13 times higher throughput and 17 times more tokens per watt than Nvidia's GB300 NVL7…
Amazon's custom Trainium and Inferentia chips are gaining traction as organizations seek cost-effective alternatives to Nvidia GPUs for AI workloads. AWS reports cost reductions of 80-90% for inference tasks on Inferenti…
Qualcomm unveiled the Snapdragon Reality Elite chip at the Augmented World Expo, promising 60% better graphics and 160% more AI processing power for augmented and mixed reality glasses. The chip aims to make smart glasse…
The Orange Pi 6 single-board computer features a 12-core CIX CD8180 processor, up to 24GB of RAM, and 45 TOPS of AI compute power, including a 28.8 TOPS NPU. It supports 8K video decoding, dual 2.5GbE, and multiple opera…
The AI boom is pulling GPU vendors away from double-precision (FP64) hardware essential for scientific HPC, as NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel prioritize low-precision AI cores. New chips like NVIDIA's B200 and AMD's MI355X show …
Amazon's AWS division predicts small-scale quantum computers will become commercially useful within five to seven years, targeting 2030-2032. The company unveiled its Ocelot chip on February 27, 2025, and partnered with …
Worldwide revenue for Data Center IT Semiconductors and Components surged 116% year-over-year in Q1 2026, driven by rising memory prices, NVIDIA's Blackwell platform ramp, and hyperscaler custom accelerators, according t…
ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet warned that surging AI demand will keep the semiconductor market supply-limited for years, with Elon Musk's $119 billion TeraFab factory in Texas adding further pressure on advanced chipmaking…
Odyssey ML raised $310 million in Series B funding at a $1.45 billion valuation, with Amazon, Natural Capital, AMD Ventures, GV, EQT, and In-Q-Tel participating. The deal names AWS as Odyssey's preferred cloud provider a…
HIVE Digital Technologies announced a CAD $3.5 billion AI gigafactory in the Greater Toronto Area, aiming to support Canada's goal of 850 MW of sovereign compute by 2030. The 320 MW facility, expected to go live in 2027,…
Gigabyte's $5,300 AORUS RTX 5090 Infinity, a limited-edition anniversary graphics card, is now available for in-store pickup at Micro Center in the US, but buyers will not receive the 1-gram 999 pure gold bonus offered t…
The G7 formally launched a Critical Minerals Resilience and Production Alliance at the June 2026 summit in Évian, creating a cooperative platform to coordinate emergency responses and reduce dependency on China for miner…
Intel's price-to-sales ratio surged from under 2x to over 11x in a year, driven by AI chip momentum, government equity stake, and strong earnings. The rapid valuation increase draws comparisons to dot-com era excess, rai…
Fortinet announced an expanded integration of its FortiAIGate solution with Nvidia's AI platforms on May 12, embedding zero-trust security directly into Nvidia's Blackwell and Hopper GPUs to protect against AI-specific t…
Billionaire investor Dan Loeb's hedge fund Third Point held 275,000 shares of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company as of Q1 2026, making TSMC his top AI bet, while reducing its Nvidia stake and adding Bitcoin miner…
Intel released its 2025–2026 Corporate Responsibility Report, detailing progress in people, sustainability, and technology as AI demand surges. The company achieved 99% renewable electricity globally, saved 11.2 billion …
Coherent broke ground on an expanded indium phosphide wafer fab in Sherman, Texas, with NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang and Coherent CEO Jim Anderson attending the June 16 ceremony. The facility, supported by a $50 million CHIPS…
Global AI infrastructure buildout is driving a surge in capital spending, with semiconductor sales reaching $791.7 billion in 2025 and on track to near $1 trillion in 2026, according to a GlobeNewswire press release dist…
Odyssey, an AI lab building real-time world models, raised $310 million in Series B funding led by Natural Capital, with Amazon, AMD Ventures, Google's GV, EQT, and In-Q-Tel participating. The round notably excludes Nvid…
NVIDIA Jetson integrates validated LPDDR5 DRAM directly on-module to address memory supply volatility that is disrupting edge AI development, with shortages and rising prices expected through 2026. The approach eliminate…