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Japan committed $2.65 billion to Rapidus for advanced semiconductor fabrication, while Chinese AI software gains cost competitiveness against US models, as global semiconductor sales surged 93.9% year-over-year in April,…
Microsoft and OpenAI are planning to deploy hundreds of thousands of NVIDIA GB200 GPUs, alongside their custom Maia AI chips, as part of massive infrastructure expansion. Hyperscaler capital expenditure remains in the hu…
Google Cloud announced an expansion of its co-engineered infrastructure with NVIDIA, including early access to the Vera Rubin platform in the second half of 2026, while also advancing its custom TPU roadmap through a Bro…
Epic Semi announced the Contrail Compute AIX, the first RISC-V AI execution platform, designed to run AI inference workloads on open-standard RISC-V architecture. The platform aims to provide a flexible and efficient alt…
Vilius Vystartas argues that the unified global internet is being replaced by sovereign AI zones, driven by US export controls on AI chips and models. The January 2025 AI Diffusion Rule created a three-tier world, forcin…
AMP PBC, a public benefit corporation founded by Anjney Midha, is building a shared GPU network to pool idle chips from data centers and lower AI compute costs. The company has secured $1.3 billion in funding commitments…
CoreWeave will join the Nasdaq-100 Index on June 22, 2026, just 15 months after its IPO, marking a rapid ascent from a crypto mining startup to an AI cloud infrastructure leader. The company reported $2.1 billion in Q1 2…
MSI's RTX 5080 Inspire 3X OC graphics card has dropped to its lowest price in months on Amazon, now available for $1,229.79—a 14% discount saving $200 off the regular $1,429.99. The deal offers a high-performance Blackwe…
China's export curbs on tungsten have caused the price of tungsten hexafluoride, a critical gas for AI chip manufacturing, to triple year-on-year, threatening Japan's semiconductor supply chain. Japanese producers Showa …
A maker project on Hackster.io demonstrates runtime safety monitoring of AI inference on the AMD Kria KV260 FPGA system-on-module. The project runs a Deep Learning Processing Unit on the FPGA fabric while a Zephyr RTOS a…
Bank of America raised its global server CPU market forecast to over $170 billion by 2030, citing agentic AI as the primary demand driver. The revision triggered a semiconductor rally on June 11, with Intel, AMD, and Arm…
China's Ministry of State Security warned users against accessing US AI models via third-party tools, citing security risks and potential cyber espionage. Meanwhile, US companies continue to adopt Chinese AI models like …
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman postponed a planned June 14-15 visit to South Korea for meetings with Samsung Electronics, Naver, and Kakao, citing unavoidable personal circumstances, with no rescheduled date announced. The trip w…
Samsung Electronics is in talks to manufacture a memory input-output die for Google's next-generation AI chip, the 10th-generation tensor processing unit code-named "Icefish," using its 2-nanometer process. The deal woul…
Oracle's heavy investment in AI infrastructure, including partnerships with Nvidia, has significantly increased its debt, raising concerns about financial stability amid the AI boom. The company's debt load could pose ri…
NVIDIA's Blackwell platform achieved up to 20x more agents per megawatt than the previous generation in the first AgentPerf benchmark, a new test from independent firm Artificial Analysis designed for agentic AI workload…
Nvidia's new GB300 NVL72 system achieves 61,400 concurrent AI agents per megawatt, a 20x improvement over the prior-generation H200. The Blackwell Ultra rack-scale system, validated using the AgentPerf benchmark, is alre…
Artificial Analysis released initial results for its AA-AgentPerf benchmark, showing NVIDIA's Blackwell systems outperforming AMD's Instinct MI355X GPUs on power-efficient agentic inference using DeepSeek V4 Pro. The ben…
SpaceX and Nvidia are deepening their nearly decade-long partnership as SpaceX prepares for a $75 billion IPO, with Nvidia providing space-specific computing platforms for AI-driven rocket design and orbital data centers…
NVIDIA's Blackwell architecture leads the inaugural AgentPerf benchmark for agentic AI. AMD opens pre-orders for its Linux-friendly Ryzen AI Halo developer platform featuring the Strix Halo APU. Linux 7.2 introduces GPU …