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Emerging market ETFs are increasingly tied to the AI chip trade as South Korea and Taiwan funds surpass China-focused funds in assets, pulling investors into the same global semiconductor cycle driving US tech. The shift…
Samsung Electronics may consider an American depositary receipt (ADR) listing to attract U.S. investors and boost its valuation, following rivals like TSMC and SK hynix in the AI memory chip race. Analysts say an ADR cou…
Apple raised prices on Macs, iPads, Vision Pro, HomePods, and Apple TV by 15% to over 30%, blaming surging memory costs driven by AI data center demand. The price hikes follow similar moves by Microsoft, Motorola, and Sa…
Y Combinator's 2026 AI investment trends reveal a shift toward applied AI startups in healthcare, defense, and enterprise automation, with a focus on reducing reliance on large language models. The analysis shows increas…
Microsoft's Fairwater AI data center in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, is now operational, featuring an 800-gigabit-per-second Ethernet fabric across a multi-building cluster. The $4.7 billion facility, which Microsoft claim…
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called for Congress to break up Apple amid looming price hikes on MacBooks and iPhones due to a strained chip supply chain, arguing that big tech companies wield unchecked power. She also ur…
Nvidia's global inference datacenter market share has fallen to 1%, as competitors like China's HX-9 Pro chip and open-source models from Zhipu and Sakana AI erode its dominance. A Tier-2 datacenter in Ohio replaced its …
NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Super 8GB achieves optimal performance at 25W power mode, delivering 43% more tokens per second than 15W and better energy efficiency than MAXN, according to benchmarks of eight tiny LLMs using ll…
Qualcomm is challenging Nvidia's dominance in China by deploying custom AI chips designed to comply with local regulations, while L'Oréal uses Nvidia's AI to accelerate R&D. Japan's SIer industry faces a predicted declin…
LogicTronix and Sundance have developed a real-time event-based vision application on the Sundance VCS3 MPSoC platform, integrating a Prophesee IMX636 event sensor and a Vitis AI machine learning model. The compact syste…
Apple is lobbying the Trump administration for permission to buy cheaper DRAM from Chinese manufacturer ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT), which is blacklisted by the Pentagon. While CXMT offers up to 30% cost savings,…
Meituan's LongCat-2.0-Preview, a 1.6 trillion parameter AI model trained entirely on Chinese domestic chips without NVIDIA hardware, has become the most-used model on OpenRouter under the alias Owl Alpha, processing over…
The computer-brain industry (CPU, memory, accelerators) grew from a $15B niche in 1984 to a $350B heavy industry in 2025, nearly doubling from $200B in 2020, driven by AI boom datacenter construction. This explosive grow…
Mirae Asset Securities research chief Park Yeon-ju said the dominance of Samsung Electronics and SK hynix in South Korea's Kospi index is justified by their outsized earnings contributions, with the two chipmakers accoun…
Chinese chipmaker Basic Semiconductor is moving forward with an IPO in Hong Kong, betting on silicon carbide (SiC) semiconductors to address the power demands of AI-driven data centers. The company joins a national push …
Millie Bobby Brown and David Harbour have ended their feud and will reunite for a new Netflix spy series, months after Brown filed a harassment complaint against Harbour. The untitled show follows Harbour's ex-FBI agent …
Researchers reverse-engineered the Apple Neural Engine (ANE), documenting its architecture, programming interface, and performance across A11-A18 and M1-M5 chips. The study reveals a direct user-space route to the ANE, t…
India and US mobilized private sector for AI and chip projects at a June 25 Washington roundtable, with officials from both countries seeking to derisk private capital through durable demand signals. Indian officials hig…
Goldman Sachs initiated coverage of Intel with a Neutral rating and a $150 price target, citing limited upside after the stock more than tripled in 2026. Analyst James Schneider noted positive demand trends in server CPU…
Susquehanna analyst Mehdi Hosseini raised the price target on Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) to $575 from $500, citing AI infrastructure demand. Bank of America followed with a $590 target. TSMC's domi…