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Stathera Inc. secured $55 million in Series A funding led by Maverick Silicon and MediaTek to develop vacuum-sealed silicon oscillators for AI chips. The technology aims to improve timing precision and energy efficiency …
Etched Inc. launched with $800 million in funding and a $5 billion valuation, backed by VentureTech Alliance, to compete in the AI inference chip market against NVIDIA and Intel. The company aims to capitalize on growing…
Singapore authorities seized a $42 million luxury home and charged three suspects with fraud and money laundering in an alleged scheme to smuggle Nvidia AI chips to China, involving roughly $390 million in transactions. …
Taiwanese investors are taking on heavy debt to amplify stock market gains amid an AI-fueled rally, while margin debt levels reach risky heights. The trend is driven by FOMO and leveraged bets on companies like TSMC, rai…
Apple's upcoming A20 Pro chip, expected to power the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone Ultra, will be the company's first 2nm processor, offering higher transistor density and improved performance and power efficiency. The chip i…
A $10,000 investment in the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index on Jan. 2, 2026, would have grown to $19,546.72 by the end of Q2, driven by AI demand, while the S&P 500 returned 9% and bitcoin lost over 32%.
AI hardware startup Etched unveiled its Sohu chip and rack-scale inference system on June 30, designed specifically for transformer-based large language model inference. The company claims over $1 billion in signed custo…
ByteDance is investing $37.7 billion to build its largest data center outside China in Brazil's Ceará state, powered by wind energy and backed by a $2 billion renewable supply deal. The facility, located in the Pecém por…
Researchers found that FPGA implementations of ML-KEM decapsulation verification leak side-channel information even with higher-order masking, enabling full secret-key recovery. The study compared unprotected, hash-based…
Goldman Sachs strategists have turned bullish on European equities, citing surging hyperscaler capital expenditure that they now estimate at $754 billion for 2026. The bank argues that European industrial suppliers like …
Indian smartphone manufacturers are pushing 12GB or 16GB of RAM as the new standard for mid-range devices to support on-device AI features, which consume significant memory through model weights and KV cache. This 'RAM t…
AI investment is on pace to top a trillion dollars a year, diverting capital, industrial real estate, electricity, and labor from housing, manufacturing, and other sectors, according to a New York Times piece by Jennifer…
AI-driven demand for chips and data-center equipment pushed manufacturing PMIs above 50 in China, Japan, Taiwan, Vietnam, the Philippines, and Malaysia in June 2026, according to Reuters. However, the Iran war is causing…
Asia's factories expanded for a seventh straight month in June, driven by surging demand for AI hardware such as chips and servers, according to PMI data. The growth offset headwinds from the Iran war, which raised energ…
Researchers introduced FlexViT, a reconfigurable FPGA accelerator that achieves up to 2.74x speedup for Vision Transformer layers on edge devices. The accelerator uses a hardware-software co-design approach with a dual-m…
Nvidia, now the world's most valuable company at $4.8 trillion, requires employees to pay for subsidized cafeteria meals and some drinks, contrasting with free-perk policies at rivals like Google. CEO Jensen Huang's frug…
Abu Dhabi's MGX has closed a roughly $50 billion fund to invest in AI infrastructure, semiconductors, and core AI technologies, with commitments from sovereign wealth funds and global investors. The fund, launched in Mar…
SK hynix briefly overtook Samsung Electronics as the most valuable company on Korea's KOSPI index on June 22, ending Samsung's 26-year reign, driven by SK hynix's gains from the AI memory chip boom. The two companies hav…
SK Group retained the top spot in operating profit over Samsung Group in 2025, reporting 50.19 trillion won ($32.2 billion), driven by SK hynix's strong performance amid an AI-driven semiconductor supercycle. Samsung Gro…
Vertiv announced a new factory in Johor, Malaysia, set to open in early 2026, to produce cooling and power equipment for AI data centers in Asia Pacific. The facility aims to cut delivery times and support regional hyper…