Semiconductor News & Analysis Feed

SpaceXAI plans to deploy NVIDIA's standalone Vera CPU in its data centers and future Starmind satellites to support Grok's agentic workloads. This move marks NVIDIA's expansion into space computing and edge AI applications. The Vera chip features 88 custom Olympus cores and up to 1.2 TB/s memory ban

xAI announced the 2-trillion-parameter Grok 4.6 model on July 18, 2026, followed by an even larger Grok 4.7 model just weeks later, setting a new pace in AI model releases that no other lab has matched. This aggressive cadence is supported by xAI’s Colossus supercluster in Memphis, which has grown t