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Qualcomm announced its next-generation Adreno Neural Fusion GPU, featuring dedicated AI Matrix Cores and an 18MB High Performance Memory cache, delivering a 40% power improvement for the upcoming flagship Snapdragon chip…
GlobalFoundries, the publicly traded semiconductor foundry, announced customer availability of its UX platform technologies for edge AI and connectivity applications, targeting a Physical AI market it estimates will exce…
Intel and AMD's AI Compute Extensions (ACEv1), the first instruction set the two companies designed together, have landed in the GCC 17 compiler tree with the flag -macev1, enabling open-source compilation of the new ins…
Saudi Arabia opened LEAP 2026 in Riyadh with more than $15 billion in technology launches, investments, and partnerships, anchored by HUMAIN, the AI company owned by the Public Investment Fund and chaired by Crown Prince…
Taiwan's Ministry of Justice Investigation Bureau has investigated 166 cases over the past six years of companies allegedly concealing ties to China, including Blue Ocean Smart System, a Nanjing-based chip design firm th…
Xiaomi's custom XRING O3 chip, fabricated on TSMC's N3P process, has achieved record benchmark scores, with Geekbench 6 multi-core reaching 15,221 points and AnTuTu V11 scoring 5.22 million, surpassing rivals like Google…
TSMC Senior VP Jeffrey Hou said at SEMICON Taiwan 2026 that AI demand nearly doubled equipment procurement forecasts within six months, prompting TSMC to build 13 fabs in Taiwan and 5-6 overseas simultaneously, straining…
Amin Vahdat, Google's Senior VP for AI & Infrastructure, announced at SEMICON Taiwan 2026 a 60% expansion of Google's AI infrastructure R&D center in Shilin, Taipei, which opened in late 2025, to enhance local collaborat…
Indian fabless semiconductor startup HrdWyr, founded in 2023 by Ramamurthy Sivakumar and Guruswamy Ganesh, is developing AI-native system-on-chips (SoCs) for power and battery management, aiming to integrate AI, real-tim…
Xiaomi has scheduled its autumn flagship product event for 7 p.m. Beijing time on Sept. 7, where it is expected to launch the Xiaomi 18 Fold foldable phone, the Xiaomi Pad 9 Pro Max tablet and three Sky Nomad extended-ra…
Supermicro is selling a desktop-or-rack workstation built around Nvidia's GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra superchip for $92,887.47, before tax and shipping, a price roughly seven times the $12,299 listed for a Mac Studio wit…
AMD claims enterprises can consolidate 100 five- to seven-year-old Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 dual CPU servers into 14 AMD EPYC 9965 CPU-based servers, an 86% reduction, while maintaining total performance and cutting powe…
The Trump administration has announced efforts to close a loophole allowing Chinese AI companies to remotely access advanced U.S. chips without physical import, as part of broader restrictions on Chinese technology firms…
AI optimization startup Wafer has raised a $40 million Series A at a valuation north of $200 million, a 50x increase from its $4 million seed round closed in April 2026, after turning down acquisition offers from multipl…
At Hot Chips 2026, NVIDIA detailed its plans to bring RISC-V CPUs into its GPU platforms, outlining requirements for CUDA and NVLink Fusion integration. The company highlighted RVA23 profiles and the RISC-V Boot and Runt…
OpenAI presented the architecture of Jalapeno, its general-purpose AI inference accelerator, at the Hot Chips 2026 conference, detailing a design built for end-to-end optimization rather than peak "show" FLOPs. The chip …
Patent filings at the intersection of AI and semiconductors increased 114% over the past five years, outpacing the broader sector's 78% growth, according to a report by IP management provider Anaqua. The report highlight…
Europe's EuroHPC JU signed a €387.8 million contract on August 31, 2026, for LUMI-AI, an AMD-only supercomputer to be built by Bull and deployed in Kajaani, Finland, in the second half of 2027, snubbing Nvidia. The syste…
NVIDIA has revived its Rubin CPX GPU for production in the first quarter of 2027, according to supply-chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of TF International Securities, switching from 128 GB of GDDR7 to 168 GB of HBM4 and a stan…
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. introduced the Dragonwing Q-2390 and IQ-2390 processors ahead of IFA, expanding its portfolio with highly integrated platforms for consumer IoT and industrial edge computing. The processors ar…