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Memory prices have surged 500% in 12 months, with 128GB DDR5 kits now costing $3,399, ten times their lowest-ever tracked price, according to Tom's Hardware. Hyperscale buyers have reportedly locked in almost all global …
China has approved ByteDance and Tencent to import 10,000 Nvidia H200 chips each, with Alibaba also winning approval, marking a reversal from Beijing's earlier push toward Huawei's Ascend chips. The U.S. Commerce Departm…
Etched, a San Jose-based AI chip startup founded by three 24-year-old Harvard dropouts, has raised its valuation to $21 billion after a $700 million funding round led by Jane Street, and has attracted nearly 400 former N…
Yossi Cohen, former director of Israel's Mossad intelligence agency, has been appointed strategic advisor at SoftBank, moving closer to founder Masayoshi Son with a mandate spanning AI, semiconductors, and data centers. …
Korea's tech funding nearly tripled year-on-year to $1.4 billion in the first half of 2026, but two mega-rounds in AI and semiconductors accounted for 38 percent of the total, according to data intelligence platform Trac…
KT launched the KT NPU LLM Station, an integrated AI appliance combining Rebellions' ATOM-MAX neural processing unit, KT's Mi:dm K 2.5 Pro large language model, and an API platform, enabling enterprises to run generative…
Cerebras Systems launched its CS-4 'Nexus' systems with an overclocked WSE-3 Turbo waferscale engine, doubling clock speed to 2.8 GHz from 1.4 GHz while keeping the same 900,000 cores and 44 GB of SRAM, to boost inferenc…
U.S. semiconductor startup Etched has raised $700 million at a valuation of $21 billion, more than double its previous valuation of $10.3 billion from a $300 million Series C round in July. Jane Street led the round, wit…
Cerebras Systems unveiled the CS-4 rack-scale AI accelerator at its Supernova conference on August 19, 2026, claiming 30x faster token generation than GPU-based inference, with OpenAI committing to deploy 750 megawatts o…
Baidu executives told investors on its Q2 earnings call that Chinese customers are increasingly seeking domestic AI chips due to constrained supply, boosting confidence in its Kunlunxin chip business. Baidu's AI cloud re…
Hua Hong Semiconductor reported second-quarter net profit of $38.6 million, up 385.9% year over year, on record revenue of $717.5 million, while SMIC's net profit more than tripled to $479.2 million on revenue of $3.01 b…
Nvidia's H200 processors have reached mainland China in limited quantities, with ByteDance and Tencent each receiving about 10,000 units in recent weeks, according to the Financial Times. U.S. regulators have cleared bot…
China has relaxed restrictions on Nvidia's H200 chips, allowing ByteDance and Tencent to receive approximately 10,000 units each, according to the Financial Times. The move aims to boost China's competitiveness in AI, po…
Cerebras Systems unveiled its fourth-generation CS-4 rack, doubling the performance of the CS-3 by increasing clock speeds and power delivery on the same 5nm wafer-scale engine (WSE-3), enabling double the tokens per sec…
Cerebras Systems introduced the CS-4 server rack, built around three wafer-scale chips, to accelerate AI inference for chatbots, positioning itself against Nvidia. The system, announced Tuesday in San Francisco, uses the…
Cerebras Systems unveiled the CS-4, a rack-scale AI system powered by three WSE-3 Turbo wafers, delivering up to 30x faster inference than GPU systems and up to 10x more throughput per watt than its predecessor CS-3. The…
RAM prices have surged 500% in 2026, with a 128GB DDR5 kit now costing $3,399, more than 10 times the lowest price ever tracked by Tom's Hardware. The spike is driven by AI infrastructure demand: DRAM fabs are being redi…
Velaura AI Inc., a developer of low-power artificial intelligence chips, has raised $110 million in a Series A funding round led by Seligman Ventures, with participation from Samsung Catalyst Fund, Mayfield, and more tha…
Cerebras Systems, an AI chipmaker founded in 2015 by Andrew Feldman, is betting on its Wafer-Scale Engine 3 (WSE-3) chip to revive its stock after a post-IPO selloff. The company went public on May 13, 2026, at $185 per …
Cerebras Systems unveiled its CS-4 rack-scale AI inference system, claiming it delivers 30x the tokens per second per user compared with GPUs, as it competes with Nvidia. The CS-4 packs three wafer-scale WSE-3 Turbo proc…