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Nvidia dominates AI training hardware, but the inference market is wide open as companies like Cerebras, Groq, d-Matrix, Etched, and Taalas challenge Nvidia's GPU-based approach by designing chips optimized for low-laten…
Sony's PlayStation 6 could retail for $1,000 due to a $960 bill of materials, driven by surging DDR5 and LPDDR5X RAM prices as AI infrastructure consumes global memory supply. Sony faces a choice between delaying the lau…
Three high-performance computing experts—Jack Dongarra, Torsten Hoefler, and Satoshi Matsuoka—are questioning the necessity of GPUs in AI and scientific computing in a forthcoming paper, prompted by the emergence of the …
OpenAI unveiled Jalapeño, a custom inference ASIC co-designed with Broadcom and manufactured by TSMC, aiming for 50% lower inference cost per token than Nvidia GPUs. Production is planned for 2027, with broader deploymen…
NVIDIA's Jetson Orin Nano Super is being used to self-host a local text-to-speech app called StreamTTS, which serves audio via durable streams instead of traditional request-response APIs. The setup allows users to share…
South Korea's government and top tech companies are committing $1 trillion to megaprojects that include $585 billion for new chip fabrication plants, $357 billion for AI data centers, and a push to commercialize humanoid…
AI chip startup Etched raised $800 million from investors including Jane Street and a TSMC-linked fund, with $1 billion in sales contracts secured. The company plans to ship its Sohu inference chip this summer, betting o…
A federal lawsuit filed June 25 in California accuses Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron Technology of colluding to fix DRAM prices, causing a 700% price surge since 2022. The complaint alleges the companies coordinated a shi…
Meituan trained its 1.6 trillion parameter LongCat-2.0 AI model entirely on Chinese chips, demonstrating China's ability to develop large-scale AI without Nvidia hardware.
Helix Digital Infrastructure launched on June 11 with over $10 billion in committed capital from KKR, NVIDIA, the Kuwait Investment Authority, and Vistra, led by former AWS CEO Adam Selipsky, to acquire US data centers f…
Global Unichip Corp. (GUC) hit an all-time high of NT$5,950, surging over 240% in the past year, as demand for custom CPUs from hyperscalers like Google and Microsoft boosts revenue estimates. The TSMC-affiliated chip de…
Global stocks surged $7 trillion in the first half of 2026 despite a $9 trillion drop in March caused by the Iran war, as an AI boom drove markets higher. South Korea's stock market doubled, SpaceX soared, but the 'Magni…
LG Innotek targets $647 million in operating profit from package solutions by 2031, driven by 5G, premium smartphone components, memory market recovery, and AI expansion.
OpenAI has reduced its inference costs by roughly 50% through a new optimization technique, addressing a major financial challenge as inference spending threatens to reach billions annually. The cost reduction is part of…
AI chip startup Etched disclosed that quantitative trading firm Jane Street and a TSMC-linked venture firm are among its backers, signaling confidence in its transformer-specific chip. The company, which has raised $800 …
China's official manufacturing PMI rose to 50.3 in June, beating expectations, driven by surging global demand for AI hardware and high-tech exports. The high-tech manufacturing PMI hit 53.5, while domestic weakness pers…
AI chip startup Etched raised $800 million and secured $1 billion in sales contracts for its Sohu ASIC, a transformer-specific chip that claims to outperform Nvidia's H100. The company, founded in 2022, is betting on the…
CoreWeave has partnered with Swedish data center operator Conapto to add two Stockholm campuses to its European AI infrastructure, pushing its global data center total to 49 and active power capacity past 1 GW. The coloc…
B&H is offering limited-time discounts on two top-selling MSI Claw handhelds, the Claw 8 AI+ and Claw A8, following the release of the new Claw 8 EX AI+. The Claw 8 AI+ is reduced by $220 to $1,079.99, and the Claw A8 is…
Nvidia is hiring for over 12 robotics and AI positions in China, focusing on its Omniverse platform and humanoid robotics, despite US export tensions. The company partnered with Unitree Robotics in June to build a humano…