Lisa Su Unveiled AMD’s Most Powerful AI Rack Ever — and a Deal to Put 2 Gigawatts of It Inside Anthropic’s Data Centers
AMD CEO Lisa Su unveiled the Helios rack-scale AI system and confirmed a deal to supply Anthropic with up to…
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Nokia Is Leasing Then Buying NXP’s Arizona Chip Fabs — Betting on Optical Chips, Not the AI Chips Everyone Else Wants
Nokia is taking over NXP's Chandler, Arizona chip fabrication campus through an unusual lease-first, buy-later structure — a bet on…
Nokia Is Leasing Then Buying NXP’s Arizona Chip Fabs — Betting on Optical Chips, Not the AI Chips Everyone Else Wants
Nokia is taking over NXP's Chandler, Arizona chip fabrication campus through an unusual lease-first, buy-later structure — a bet on…
Jensen Huang Told Congress Nvidia Will Build $500 Billion of AI Infrastructure in America. He Also Says Memory Chips, Not GPUs, Are Now the Real Bottleneck.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang briefed lawmakers on AI leadership and national security in late July 2026, while separately telling investors…
Qualcomm Is Raising Chip Prices in September. For a Country Built on Cheap Android Phones, That’s Not a Footnote
Qualcomm confirmed double-digit Snapdragon price increases starting September 1, driven by rising chip and memory costs — with knock-on effects…
Etched Doubles Its Valuation to $10.3 Billion Betting Nvidia Can’t Win Every Layer of AI
AI chip startup Etched raised $300M at a $10.3 billion valuation, betting that inference-specific silicon can beat Nvidia's general-purpose GPUs…
CuspAI Raises $450 Million as a 45-Company Consortium Bets AI Can Out-Search Nature for New Materials
Cambridge-based CuspAI raised $450M to scale MIRA, its AI platform for materials discovery, backed by a 45-company consortium including Nvidia,…
Washington Quietly Loosened the Chip Chokehold on China. The Bigger Story Is What Comes Next.
After years of tightening restrictions, US chip export policy toward China cooled in 2026, with regulators allowing case-by-case sales of…
The Week in Tech: SK Hynix’s Record IPO, Apple’s EU Defeat, and a Chip Trade That Can’t Decide How It Feels
A weekly briefing on the tech and startup stories that mattered most between July 4 and July 10, 2026: SK…
SK Hynix Just Pulled Off the Biggest Foreign IPO in US History. Memory Chips Are Now the Center of the AI Trade.
SK Hynix raised $26.5 billion in a Nasdaq debut on July 10, the largest foreign listing in US history, as…