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General Atlantic led a $1 billion funding round for AI chip maker SambaNova, valuing the company at $11 billion. The investment signals growing investor interest in AI infrastructure beyond model training.
DeepSeek is designing its own AI inference chip, targeting the phase where trained models generate responses, with manufacturing partner SMIC under US export controls. The chip leverages DeepSeek's Mixture-of-Experts arc…
The US trade deficit widened to $77.6 billion in May, a 42.2% increase from April, driven by record capital goods imports of $128 billion amid AI and data center demand, while exports fell 3.2% due to declining prices an…
PC Gamer reviewed the Geekom A9 Max AI AMD Mini PC, a compact desktop powered by AMD's latest AI-capable processors. The review highlights its performance for gaming and productivity, noting its small form factor and com…
SambaNova, an AI chip startup, raised fresh funding at an $11 billion valuation, up from roughly $2 billion earlier this year, as investors race to back alternatives to Nvidia. The company builds chips and systems for ru…
Nvidia's stock has fallen to its lowest valuation since 2019, trading at 18.4 times expected earnings, as investors shift focus to other AI companies. The decline has reduced Nvidia's correlation with the Philadelphia Se…
Chinese President Xi Jinping has prioritized artificial intelligence and semiconductor development as part of China's 15th Five-Year Plan, aiming to build domestic alternatives to US chips. The plan, which covers 2026-20…
AI chip startup SambaNova raised $1 billion in a funding round that values the company at $11 billion. The investment underscores the growing demand for specialized hardware to power artificial intelligence workloads.
Nvidia announced its RTX Spark ARM-based chip at Computex, positioning it as a new category for thin laptops and mini PCs rather than a replacement for x86 gaming desktops. The chip, made with MediaTek, features an integ…
Big Tech stocks, led by the Magnificent Seven, have rebounded 8% since late June, while semiconductor stocks have fallen 12%, indicating a rotation out of crowded hardware trades rather than a broad growth unwind. Apple …
Samsung has commenced mass production of PCIe 6.0-based enterprise SSDs for AI and high-performance computing, aiming to address power and bandwidth bottlenecks in global data centers. The move solidifies Samsung's lead …
ZML released ZML/LLMD on July 8, 2026 as an alpha inference server for LLaMa, Gemma, Qwen and Mistral models across NVIDIA CUDA, AMD ROCm, Google TPU, Intel oneAPI and Apple Metal targets, aiming to reduce chip silos and…
Nvidia Corp.'s market value has dropped by roughly $1 trillion since May, pushing its stock to its cheapest level since before the AI boom, now trading at 18 times forward earnings. The selloff reflects a shift in the AI…
Nvidia inaugurated an expanded R&D center in Beersheba, Israel, on July 7, 2026, tripling its footprint to 3,000 square meters and housing over 150 employees. The center focuses on AI infrastructure, including networking…
Perplexity has become one of the first major AI companies to adopt Nvidia's new Vera CPU, planning to run its agent workloads on the chip. The AI search firm reports Vera runs agentic coding tasks about 1.5 times faster …
Amazon returned to the bond market with a $25bn+ debt sale, its largest of the year, to fund AI infrastructure including data centers and custom Trainium chips. The offering, split across eight tranches with maturities u…
French startup ZML announced a partnership with Scaleway, VSORA, and the Île-de-France region at VivaTech to build a European AI stack independent of Nvidia. ZML's open-source inference software compiles AI models to run…
TetraMem and SK hynix announced a successful collaboration on a memristor-based AI System-on-Chip that reduces energy consumption in AI workloads, with their research published as the cover feature of Advanced Intelligen…
French AI startup ZML released a free inference server, ZML/LLMD, that enables open-source large language models to run at peak performance across multiple chip types including Nvidia, AMD, Google TPU, Apple Metal, and I…
Parasail will deploy d-Matrix Corsair inference accelerators alongside NVIDIA Hopper and Blackwell GPUs in a heterogeneous inference system, targeting faster token generation for cloud customers. The setup uses GPUs for …