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GlobalFoundries expects to be the first chipmaker to support the Optical Compute Interconnect Multi-Source Agreement (OCI MSA), an open standard enabling AI data center operators to connect GPUs from different suppliers.…
Hydra Host CEO Aaron Ginn warns data centers against investing in custom hyperscaler chips from companies like Google, arguing they serve too few customers and act as defensive moats rather than versatile infrastructure.…
Asian tech stocks surged on Monday after the United States and Iran announced a peace agreement, with AI and semiconductor companies posting the largest gains. SoftBank rose 10%, SK Hynix climbed 6.42%, and Samsung Elect…
Qualcomm is in talks to acquire AI chip-design company Tenstorrent for $8 billion to $10 billion, according to The Information. The deal would signal Qualcomm's push into the AI data center market as its handset chip bus…
MSI's Claw 8 EX AI+ launches June 23 at $1,699, making it the most expensive handheld gaming PC ever sold. The device features Intel's Arc G3 Extreme processor, 32GB RAM, and an 8-inch 120Hz display, but costs $500 more …
Samsung announced the Galaxy Book 6 Edge, a new model in its Galaxy Book 6 lineup powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon X2 Elite chipset with up to 80 TOPS of AI performance. The 16-inch laptop features a 3K AMOLED display, 1…
Nvidia plans to raise up to $25 billion in its first bond sale since 2021, drawing $85 billion in early orders as tech giants race to fund AI infrastructure. The offering spans seven tranches with maturities from 2 to 30…
Nothing CEO Carl Pei warned that smartphone prices will keep rising through 2026 as memory costs now account for more than 50% of hardware expenses, driven by AI demand and supply shortages. Pei revealed memory prices do…
Samsung launched the Galaxy Book6 Edge, the first laptop with Qualcomm's Snapdragon X2 Elite processor, featuring an 80 TOPS NPU and a 12.3mm thin chassis. However, the $2,100 US model ships with only 16GB of soldered, n…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang unveiled the Vera CPU, an 88-core Arm-based processor designed for agentic AI workloads, at GTC Taipei. The chip outperforms standard x86 processors by 1.8x on agentic tasks and is part of the Ver…
Nvidia plans to raise over $25 billion in its first bond deal since 2021, upsized from $20 billion due to strong demand, with proceeds for general corporate purposes including debt refinancing. The offering tests investo…
A comparison shows Meta will spend $125 billion on chips in 2024, exceeding Germany's $114 billion defense budget, while offering over $100 million salaries to attract top AI researchers, yet still struggles to catch up …
Micron Technology shares surged nearly 10% after analyst upgrades highlighted AI-driven demand for its memory chips ahead of fiscal Q3 earnings on June 24. The company's high-bandwidth memory is sold out through 2026, gi…
NVIDIA introduced advanced fused MLP kernels for mixture-of-experts (MoE) models, built with the CuTe DSL, delivering 1.3x–2x kernel-level speedups and enabling sync-free MoE execution. The optimization contributed an 8%…
Tensordyne, the AI chip startup formerly known as Recogni, previewed Napier, an AI inference system that uses logarithmic math to replace multiplication with addition for transformer workloads. The company positions Napi…
The Technology Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLK) outperformed the S&P 500 by 28 percentage points over nine weeks through early June 2026, the largest gap in the fund's history, driven by AI enthusiasm boosting top holdings …
Gigabyte's Aero X16 gaming laptop, featuring an RTX 5070 GPU and Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 processor with a 165Hz display, received a 7% price drop to $1,580.07. The deal includes 32GB DDR5 RAM and targets gamers and professiona…
Nothing CEO Carl Pei warned that RAM now accounts for over 50% of a new phone's hardware cost, with memory prices quadrupling due to AI data centers consuming DRAM supply. Phone prices are rising $100 or more, and budget…
Apple will not release watchOS 27 for the original Apple Watch Ultra, Series 6-8, or Apple Watch SE 2, citing the lack of a neural engine in those models. The update, which includes AI-enhanced Siri and other features, w…
AI chip startup Tensordyne has taped out its data center inference chip, claiming an order-of-magnitude improvement in power efficiency over Nvidia GPUs. The company's 72-chip Napier server, built on TSMC 3nm, achieves 1…