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Wall Street futures point to a mixed open, with Nasdaq futures slightly negative after AI-related stocks fell earlier this week, while S&P 500 futures are flat and Dow futures are down 0.6%. Asian markets fell broadly We…
SK Hynix reported Q2 2026 revenue of 79.3 trillion won, operating profit up 557% year-over-year to 60.5 trillion won, and net profit of 93.9 trillion won, yet its stock dropped 10-15% in Seoul trading due to unmet analys…
Applied Materials Inc. acquired Sigray Inc., a Benicia-based X-ray technology company, in February for an undisclosed amount, according to Applied Materials spokesperson Ricky Gradwohl. The deal adds Sigray's X-ray instr…
ChipAgents, an AI startup, extended its Series A funding to $134 million with backing from Micron and MediaTek, driven by sixfold annual recurring revenue growth.
ASMPT Group CEO Robin Ng said in a July 29 Bloomberg interview that chip architecture will keep evolving as AI systems demand more silicon, with the semiconductor packaging giant benefiting from multi-chip architectures …
Samsung engineers are defecting to rival SK Hynix, demoralized by the $476,000 bonus SK Hynix is paying employees from record profits on HBM chips for Nvidia's AI accelerators. Meanwhile, OpenAI's rogue agent compromised…
South Korea's Kospi stock index fell 6% on Wednesday, down over 32% in the last month, driven by investor jitters over AI chipmakers SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics. SK Hynix closed over 9.6% down after missing analysts…
Micron Technology CEO Sanjay Mehrotra sold $37.3 million worth of MU stock on July 24, days before South Korea's KOSPI index crashed nearly 11% on July 28, triggering a broad semiconductor sell-off. The stock fell 8.8% o…
Best Buy is offering HP's OmniBook X 16-inch 2K OLED Copilot+ laptop with Qualcomm's Snapdragon X2 Elite processor and 24GB RAM for $899.99, a $550 discount from its $1,450 regular price, marking the lowest price tracked…
SambaNova, a chip startup founded in 2017 by Kunle Olukotun, Chris Ré, and Rodrigo Liang, has raised over $1 billion in a Series F at an $11 billion valuation, positioning its Reconfigurable Dataflow Units (RDU) as an en…
ASM, the Dutch chip machine maker, reported a record quarterly revenue of over €1 billion and net profit of €285 million, driven by AI infrastructure demand, despite initial investor concerns over Chinese competition. CF…
NVIDIA is in talks to guarantee roughly $250 billion in financing for a proposed OpenAI data-center campus in Ohio, creating a circular system where supplier financing supports customer purchases and boosts the supplier'…
Global air cargo demand rose 7% year-over-year in June 2026, driven by AI hardware and semiconductor shipments from Asia to North America, according to a July 2026 report from freight analytics platform Xeneta. Semicondu…
NextEra Energy and Brookfield are reportedly planning a $100 billion data campus in Kentucky, which would be one of the largest data center developments in US history, driven by surging AI demand for power. The project, …
China's ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) raised US$9.8 billion in a Shanghai stock offering to expand DRAM production, sending shares of rivals SK Hynix and Micron Technology lower. The CXMT debut and China's advances…
SK hynix reported record second-quarter revenue of 79.32 trillion won ($54.8 billion), up 256.8% on-year, and operating profit surged 557.2% to 60.54 trillion won, with an operating margin of 76%. The chipmaker pushed ba…
Marvell Technology is investing $250 million to expand its Bangalore facility into a dedicated AI development hub, targeting AI data center infrastructure. The company's India workforce of 1,700 employees is set to grow …
Bull, the supercomputing giant, has partnered with fabless data processing unit developer Kalray to develop Ultra Ethernet-based interconnect technologies for AI infrastructure, aiming to support very large-scale AI and …
Shares of Chinese MLCC manufacturers Guangdong Fenghua Advanced Technology, Suzhou GYZ Electronic Technology, and Chaozhou Three-Circle surged on Wednesday, with Guangdong Fenghua hitting the 10% daily limit for the seco…
Ajinomoto, a Japanese food company best known for MSG, controls over 95% of the Ajinomoto Build-up Film (ABF) used as a dielectric layer in every high-performance CPU and GPU, making it a critical but overlooked player i…