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2026-07-07
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Agentic AI is driving key technology providers to rethink the computing architecture required to run rapidly expanding autonomous systems.
In response to this challenge, two leading tech companies have recently unveiled a key milestone involving system-level validation for an entire rack-scale architecture. In June, CoreWeave Inc. and Nvidia Corp. announced the first bring-up and validation of Nv
2026-06-30
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The South Korean government today announced a 900 trillion won, or $584 billion, initiative to grow the country’s chip manufacturing capacity.
Officials also plan to build about $357 billion worth of artificial intelligence data centers.
The chip manufacturing initiative will be led by Samsung Electronics Co. and SK hynix Inc., which intend to open two new fabs apiece. Most of South Korea’s sem
2026-06-26
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2026-06-26
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Arizona-based chipmaker Onsemi today announced plans to acquire the internet of things and computer interface technology firm Synaptics Inc. in a deal valued at around $7 billion.
The deal will help Onsemi, officially known as Semiconductor Components Industries LLC, pursue its ambitions in “physical AI,” and bring artificial intelligence from massive cloud-based data centers into the physical wo
2026-06-25
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2026-06-25
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Chipmaking equipment giant Applied Materials Inc. is trying to make life easier for its chip fabrication plant customers, so they can build the extremely complex 3D architectures necessary for the next generation of artificial intelligence processors.
To do this, it has unveiled a host of new chip fabrication systems that span advanced packaging, process control and dynamic-random access memory m
2026-06-25
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IBM Corp. today unveiled what it says is the world’s first sub-one-nanometer chip technology, a research breakthrough that it said will fuel the next 10 years of semiconductor development and pave the way to atomic-level chip design.
The new technology is based on a transistor architecture IBM calls nanostack, designed for the 0.7-nanometer, or seven-angstrom, node. IBM said the architecture can
2026-06-25
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2026-06-25
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SK hynix Inc., the world’s largest supplier of HBM memory, today filed to list its shares on the Nasdaq stock exchange.
The South Korean company hopes to sell up to 17.79 million shares for $29.4 billion. The public offering is expected to be the second-largest on record after the recent listing of SpaceX Corp., which raised $85.7 billion.
SK hynix produces more than half of the world’s HBM memo
2026-06-25
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2026-06-25
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Memory chip maker Micron Technology Inc. more than quadrupled its revenue growth in the most recent quarter as it continued to benefit from surging demand linked to the artificial intelligence industry.
The company reported third-quarter earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of $25.11 per share, crushing Wall Street’s target of $20.78 by a wide margin. Revenue for the period su
2026-06-25
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2026-06-25
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Qualcomm Inc.’s stock jumped 14% in after-hours trading today after it shared a series of updates about its artificial intelligence roadmap.
The company announced plans to acquire an inference software startup called Modular Inc. and previewed two upcoming AI chips. Additionally, Qualcomm significantly raised its fiscal 2029 guidance. The chipmaker now expects its non-handset revenue segment, whi
2026-06-24
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2026-06-24
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Artificial intelligence played a prominent role at this week’s Bio International Convention in San Diego, the largest biotech event with vendors spanning the full ecosystem of companies in this industry.
Today in a special address, Kimberly Powell (pictured), vice president and general manager of healthcare and life sciences at Nvidia Corp., made the case that agentic AI is about to do for biotec
2026-06-23
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2026-06-23
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Realizing value from AI investment has become the ultimate prize for most enterprises today. This requires the ability of data and compute to work together, a key mission for the partnership between Nvidia Corp. and DataDirect Networks Inc.
Both companies have been collaborating on solutions that facilitate consumption of AI across an organization, with a focus on optimizing the use of GPUs insid
2026-06-22
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2026-06-22
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Nivida Corp. today announced Halos for Robotics, the industry’s first full framework for robotic safety systems that encompasses building, testing and managing complete artificial intelligence robotics applications.
Automation has been part of industrial and manufacturing environments for decades, but for much of that time, robots have operated within rigid rules, rails and repeatable workflows.
2026-06-19
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2026-06-19
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Chip design startup Architect Labs Inc. launched today with $24 million in funding from a group of prominent investors.
Kindred Ventures led the seed round. It was joined by Perplexity AI Inc. Chief Executive Officer Aravind Srinivas, Transformer co-inventor Lukasz Kaiser, former OpenAI Group PBC executive Srinivas Narayanan and more than a half-dozen others.
Designing a chip can take years of
2026-06-19
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2026-06-19
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CoreWeave Inc. wants to step in before the infrastructure stack buckles under the weight of agentic artificial intelligence.
The company recently announced the industry’s first validation of Nvidia Vera Rubin NVL72 on CoreWeave Cloud. This suggests that AI infrastructure is entering a new stage, according to Rob Strechay, principal analyst for theCUBE Research, who sees CoreWeave as one of multip
2026-06-17
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2026-06-17
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Qualcomm Technologies Inc. today unveiled a brand-new chip featuring the Snapdragon Reality Elite, a rebrand of its existing line of powerful silicon designed to power next-generation immersive virtual reality and mixed reality experiences.
Reality Elite is the successor to the XR2+ Gen 2, announced during the Augmented World Expo in 2024, representing a generational leap in total power and desig
2026-06-11
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2026-06-11
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Semiconductor fabric intellectual property company Baya Systems Inc. today announced that European chip and artificial intelligence systems firm Openchip & Software Technologies S.L. has licensed its data-movement platform and network-on-chip fabric technology to develop intelligent compute systems for next-generation artificial intelligence workloads.
Under the partnership, Openchip will use Bay
2026-06-11
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2026-06-11
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Cloud-based artificial intelligence infrastructure startup TensorWave Inc. said today it has closed on a bumper $350 million Series B funding round as it strives to meet demand for an alternative to Nvidia Corp.’s graphics processing units. The round was co-led by Magnetar and AMD Ventures, the venture capital arm of the chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Maverick Silicon, Nexus Venture Partner
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2026-06-08
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Artificial intelligence chipmaker Nvidia Corp. today announced a slate of new partnerships with some of South Korea’s biggest technology, including the memory chip supplier SK hynix Inc., internet giant Naver Corp. and the multinational conglomerate Doosan Group.
The deals came during a high-profile trip by Nvidia Chief Executive Jensen Huang to the country. He arrived on Friday, and has spent th