AI Chips

Qualcomm announced Snapdragon Reality Elite, a mixed reality chip with 160% NPU performance improvement, and START, a white-label smart glasses toolkit. CEO Cristiano Amon said the company is working on over 40 AI wearab…

Developed market tech firms' CapEx-to-sales ratio hit a record 12%, the highest since the dot-com era, driven by a race to build AI infrastructure. The Magnificent Seven are leading the charge, with spending projected to…

The G7 summit in Evian, France, is confronting the group's dependence on U.S. AI and Chinese energy supply chains, with U.S. export controls on Anthropic's frontier models sparking frustration among allies. Experts say t…

Semianalysis identified server rack bottlenecks as a new constraint in AI infrastructure, driving Supermicro's stock higher. The research highlights that GPU advances are outpacing CPU resources, with rack-scale systems …

A technical analysis calculates the dollar cost per user for serving large language models at scale using napkin math, breaking down GPU resources, matrix multiplication costs, and attention mechanisms to estimate tokens…

Nvidia Corp has secured AI infrastructure deals in South Korea, expanding its presence in the Asian market. The agreements involve providing AI chips and systems to local partners, boosting Nvidia's revenue and influence…

HPE at Discover 2026 announced a self-driving network, new ProLiant Gen12 servers with NVIDIA, and Juniper networking integration. The company also unveiled the AMD Helios AI rack solution with liquid-cooled switches and…

AI chip startup Tensordyne unveiled its Napier inference engine, which converts matrix multiplication to logarithmic addition to dramatically boost performance and efficiency. The company claims the approach delivers ove…

AMD and Rackspace Technology signed a definitive agreement for a phased 30 MW deployment of AMD-based AI compute across Rackspace's global data centers, starting late 2026 through 2028. The deal positions AMD as a strate…

SiMa.ai launched Palette Neat, an agentic development environment for physical AI systems, enabling developers to design AI systems in plain English and reduce development time from weeks to days or hours. The tool, part…

HPE announced enhancements to its AI Factory portfolio at HPE Discover 2026, introducing the HPE ProLiant Compute DL394 Gen12 powered by NVIDIA's Vera CPU and adding support for the NVIDIA Agent Toolkit to operationalize…

Xreal's Android XR Aura glasses, powered by Qualcomm's new Snapdragon Reality Elite chip, will launch this fall. The chip offers up to 60% better GPU, 30% better CPU, and 160% better AI performance than its predecessor, …

Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon Reality Elite chip for AR glasses and XR headsets, promising a 60% boost in GPU performance, 30% CPU improvement, and 20% better battery life. The chip supports up to 48 TOPS of on-devic…

Qualcomm unveiled the Snapdragon Reality Elite chipset at Augmented World Expo, targeting next-generation mixed-reality headsets with up to 48 TOPS of on-device AI performance. The platform powers the XREAL Project Aura …

Qualcomm unveiled its Snapdragon Reality Elite chip for next-gen AR headsets at Augmented World Expo, promising smaller, more efficient devices with up to 4.4K resolution per eye, 60% higher GPU performance, and 20% bett…

The Xreal Aura, an Android XR glasses collaboration between Xreal and Google, is now available for preorder with a $99 reservation fee. The device, weighing under 95 grams and powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon Reality Eli…

Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon Reality Elite chip for XR headsets and the Snapdragon START program for smart glasses at Augmented World Expo 2026. The new chip offers up to 60% higher GPU performance and 160% higher N…

Hewlett Packard Enterprise unveiled networking products purpose-built for AI data centers, including the QFX5250 switch and MX301 edge router, during HPE Discover Barcelona on December 3, 2025. The launch marks HPE's fir…

Google launched Brazos, a rack-mounted liquid cooling system designed for AI chips drawing over 1,000 watts, capable of handling 60kW per rack. The closed-loop solution can be deployed in existing air-cooled data centers…

Silicon Motion reported that the retail SSD market has nearly disappeared as NAND flash supply shifts toward AI servers and OEMs, leaving fewer drives for gaming PCs.