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XCENA, a four-year-old chip startup with offices in South Korea and the U.S., raised $135 million in Series B funding at a $570 million valuation to develop a chip that moves compute capabilities closer to DRAM memory. T…
Orbital data centres are emerging as a real investment opportunity as terrestrial AI expansion faces grid, cooling, and land constraints, with multiple startups and at least one hyperscaler pursuing programmes as of May …
Netrasemi, a Kerala-based fabless semiconductor startup backed by Zoho, launched its flagship A2000 edge AI system-on-chip after successful silicon bring-up, fabricated at TSMC on a 12nm process node. The chip integrates…
Enphase Energy announced the IQ Solid-State Transformer (IQ SST) for AI data centers on April 28, 2026, targeting 98.5% efficiency and 99.999% availability through a distributed 342-module rack architecture. The company'…
Billionaire investor Dan Loeb dismissed concerns that the AI boom resembles the dot-com bubble, arguing that Big Tech's massive spending on microchips and data centers is justified by strong earnings and cash flows. The …
MSI has unveiled the Claw 8 EX AI Plus gaming handheld ahead of Computex 2026, claiming it as the "world's first" device to feature Intel's new Arc G3 Extreme processor with Xe3 GPU cores. The handheld includes an eight-…
MSI's upcoming Claw 8 AI+ handheld, powered by Intel's new Arc G-series chips, will incorporate design elements from the ROG Ally and Xbox controllers. The device aims to blend performance from Intel's latest graphics te…
A new supply chain Sankey diagram for Nvidia's AI megachip reveals the complex web of components and manufacturing steps required to produce the hardware, highlighting how bottlenecks or disruptions at any stage can dras…
Astera Labs CEO Jitendra Mohan and co-founders Sanjay Gajendra and Casey Morrison won the EY World Entrepreneur of the Year award in Monaco, joining past honorees Jensen Huang and Michael Dell. The Silicon Valley semicon…
Dell Technologies reported record first-quarter revenue of $43.8 billion, up 88% year-over-year, driven by surging demand for Nvidia-powered AI servers. The company's Infrastructure Solutions Group generated $29 billion …
Kog AI launched a tech preview of its Kog Inference Engine (KIE), achieving 3,000 output tokens per second per request on 8× AMD MI300X GPUs and 2,100 on 8× NVIDIA H200 GPUs using a 2B model. The company claims this spee…
Apollo Global Management and Blackstone are arranging approximately $36 billion in debt to purchase custom Google TPU chips for Anthropic, with the hardware leased back to the AI company rather than placed on its balance…
South Korean stocks closed at a record high Friday as AI-linked equities surged and renewed hopes for a Middle East ceasefire boosted buying. The benchmark KOSPI gained 290.86 points, or 3.55 percent, to end at 8,476.15,…
Hardkernel has announced the ODROID-H5 single-board computer, featuring onboard 10 GbE networking and four M.2 slots for expanded storage and peripheral customization. The board uses an Intel N300 processor with a 7W TDP…
Researchers from UC Berkeley's UCCL project released mKernel, a library of persistent CUDA kernels that fuse intra-node NVLink communication, inter-node RDMA, and compute into a single kernel to address GPU communication…
Industry Minister Kim Jung-kwan on Friday urged semiconductor companies to reinvest their profits into the artificial intelligence sector to strengthen Korea’s global competitiveness. The call comes amid a national debat…
Nvidia has invested at least $6.5 billion in photonics companies since March 2026, including $2 billion each in Coherent, Lumentum, and Marvell, up to $3.2 billion in Corning, and participation in Ayar Labs’ $500 million…
Trane Technologies has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire LiquidStack, a Texas-based data center liquid-cooling specialist, building on a 2023 minority investment. The acquisition brings LiquidStack's immersi…
Foxconn Chairman Young Liu announced a strategic pivot toward AI server manufacturing, citing surging demand and a 30% increase in capital expenditure to $7.3 billion, as major cloud providers plan to spend $700 billion …
Samsung Electronics began shipping samples of its 12-layer HBM4E high-bandwidth memory chips on May 29, beating its own second-half 2026 target and achieving speeds of 16 Gbps per pin. The company’s shares surged up to 6…