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The PHLX Semiconductor Index has surged roughly 80% year-to-date, marking its best start to any calendar year on record and adding approximately $5.7 trillion in market capitalization since January. The rally, fueled by …
Qumulo is declining to support Nvidia's STX KV caching scheme, arguing the hardware-locked optimization only benefits on-premise clusters and ignores the 70 percent of AI workloads running in public clouds where STX is u…
Samsung has built a 900-layer 3D NAND die by stacking two 450-layer strings together, far surpassing competitors who currently produce 192- to 321-layer chips. The research device’s cells function correctly, with Samsung…
Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon C Platform for budget Windows-on-Arm laptops priced around $300, featuring a custom Kryo CPU and an integrated NPU for on-device AI, though the platform will not support Copilot+. Acer u…
Celestica is shifting its business model from contract manufacturing to co-design and supply for AI infrastructure, targeting demand for 800G and 1.6T Ethernet and cluster switches. The company reported Q1 2026 revenue g…
Apple will use a licensed version of Google's Gemini model in Google Cloud to handle some queries for the new Siri, and has approved the use of Nvidia confidential compute for that cloud processing, according to reportin…
Google unveiled the Coral Board at Google I/O, a compact single-board computer designed to run AI models like Gemma 3 270M entirely on-device without cloud connectivity. The board, built on a Synaptics Astra SL2619 chip …
Apple plans to make on-device artificial intelligence the centerpiece of its Worldwide Developers Conference next month, leveraging custom silicon to process AI queries locally as a privacy-focused alternative to cloud-b…
Groq, the AI inference chip startup founded by former Google TPU lead Jonathan Ross, is raising $650 million at a roughly $6 billion valuation to expand its GroqCloud services and develop next-generation LPU technology. …
Intel announced the Intel Arc G-Series processors, designed for next-generation handheld gaming PCs, with models including the Intel Arc G3 and Intel Arc G3 Extreme built on the Intel Core Ultra Series 3 (Panther Lake) a…
Qualcomm is launching a $300 laptop platform based on its Snapdragon C chip, targeting students, families, and small businesses. The move comes at a challenging time as component shortages and supply chain disruptions ar…
Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon C series of SoCs for entry-level laptops priced at $300 and above, targeting competition with Apple's MacBook Neo and Google Chromebooks. The platform, positioned below the Snapdragon X …
Super Micro Computer shares surged Tuesday on heavy call option volume after the company announced it collaborated with Taiwanese authorities to prevent its servers from being illegally diverted to China, leading to thre…
Intel announced the Arc G-Series processors, including the initial Arc G3 and G3 Extreme models, for handheld gaming devices ahead of Computex. Built on Panther Lake with Xe3 integrated graphics, the processors offer pow…
Micron Technology's latest earnings report demonstrates that the AI-driven demand for memory chips is a structural shift rather than a temporary boom. The company posted record revenue from its high-bandwidth memory prod…
Acer and Intel announced the Predator Atlas 8 gaming handheld, featuring Intel's new Arc G3 processors purpose-built for portable PC gaming. The device includes two Thunderbolt 4 ports, Wi-Fi 7 support, and an 80Wh batte…
Intel announced its first custom handheld gaming chips, the Arc G3 and Arc G3 Extreme, with the Acer Predator Atlas 8 set to be one of the first devices using the new processors. The Atlas 8 will feature up to 24GB of RA…
General Compute, a new AI inference neocloud, raised a $15 million seed round at a $60 million valuation to deploy specialized SambaNova chips for running AI models. The company has $300 million of the air-cooled SN50 ch…
Valve has raised prices on all Steam Deck models, citing ongoing component shortages and rising production costs. The price increases range from 10 to 20 percent across the handheld gaming device lineup, with the base mo…
French startup Mistral AI and Nvidia announced a partnership to launch Mistral Compute, a European AI infrastructure stack that will include roughly 18,000 Blackwell GPUs and a planned 40-megawatt data center in Essonne.…