Intel, AMD server CPUs reportedly suffering from supply shortages in China, leading to increased prices — sources say orders could be delayed by as much as 6 months
tomshardware - The increased demand is said to be partly brought by demand for agentic AI, which need CPUs to execute their tasks.
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ETH Zurich spinout Chiral bags $12M to scale robotic platform for graphene chip integration
Abhinaya Prabhu / techfundingnews - Swiss deeptech startup Chiral has secured $12 million in seed funding to commercialise its robotic platform designed for…
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Report claims Nvidia will not be releasing any new RTX gaming GPUs in 2026, RTX 60 series likely debuting in 2028
tomshardware - Nvidia's RTX 50 series Super refresh supposedly is design complete, but the GPU maker won't be releasing any new RTX GPUs in 2026, according to a report in The Information.
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ASRock Issues Official Statement Regarding Ryzen 9000 Series CPU Failures On Its AM5 Motherboards
Sarfraz Khan / wccftech - The company has started investigations to mitigate Ryzen 9000 CPU failures on AMD AM5 motherboards. ASRock Starts Internal Reviews and "Rigorous" Verifications for Ryzen 9000; BIOS Optimizations are Also Being Carried Out If you have been reading our repo…
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TSMC’s Japan Plans Are Now Looking Much More Aggressive, as the Chip Giant Will Produce 3nm Chips in the Region to Support Gigantic AI Demand
Muhammad Zuhair / wccftech - TSMC is now looking to expand its fab operations in Kumamoto, Japan, as the chip giant now plans to introduce 3nm production lines, a massive upgrade from the previous plans. TSMC's Japan & US Projects Will Be On Par In Terms of Process Technologies Being…
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Positron AI raises $230M at over $1B valuation to build energy-efficient AI accelerator hardware
Kyt Dotson / siliconangle - Positron AI, a builder of custom silicon and hardware for energy-efficient artificial intelligence inference, today announced it has raised an oversubscribed $230 million funding round at a $1 billion valuation. The Series B round was co-led by Arena Priv…
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(PR) AMD Reports Record Q4 $10.3 Billion Revenue, FY 2025 Reaches $34.6 Billion
techpowerup - AMD (NASDAQ:AMD) today announced financial results for the fourth quarter and full year of 2025. Fourth quarter revenue was a record $10.3 billion, gross margin was 54%, operating income was $1.8 billion, net income was $1.5 billion and diluted earnings p…
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AMD’s Semi-Custom SoC That’ll Power the Next-Gen Xbox is “Progressing Well to Support a Launch in 2027,” Says AMD CEO
David Carcasole / wccftech - The next-gen Xbox console from Microsoft, which we know will be powered by a semi-custom SoC currently in development from AMD, is "progressing well to support a launch in 2027," said AMD's chief executive officer, Dr. Lisa Siu, during the company's 2025 …
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AMD Radeon AIBs to Prioritize 8 GB GPU SKUs and Push 10% Price Hike
techpowerup - According to Chinese Board Channels, a reliable source of GPU news, AMD's add-in board (AIB) partners are preparing for another round of GPU price increases. They also seem to be shifting their product focus toward 8 GB Radeon models. After distributors i…
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The NVIDIA-OpenAI Fiasco Isn’t About Compute, It’s About Control; Here’s How One of the World’s Biggest AI Partnerships Is Playing Out
Muhammad Zuhair / wccftech - NVIDIA and OpenAI are all that's being talked about in the AI world, not because there have been changes in their commitments, but because the scale of the partnership is so immense that it captures all the market spotlight. Before we dive into the ongoin…
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Intel and SoftBank Subsidiary Saimemory Partner on Next-Gen Z-Angle Memory
techpowerup - Intel and SoftBank subsidiary Saimemory have signed an agreement to work together on developing and selling Z-Angle Memory (ZAM) technology aimed at AI and high-performance computing tasks. ZAM is described as a stacked DRAM architecture designed to go be…
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Intel Xeon 600 Workstation CPUs Launched: Up To 86 Cores, 8000 MT/s Memory, 128 Gen5 Lanes, 350W TDP With OC Support, & More Cores/$ Than Threadripper 9000
Hassan Mujtaba / wccftech - Intel has unveiled its next-gen Xeon 600 workstation CPUs codenamed Granite Rapids, featuring up to 86 cores & better cores/$ value than Threadripper. Intel Fires Back At AMD Threadripper 9000 With Better Cores/$ Value On Xeon 600 Workstation CPUs Today, …
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Raspberry Pi prices soar amid AI memory shortage, 16GB models jump $60
techspot - Upton revisited the matter in recent correspondence. In some cases, he said, the cost of parts more than doubled over the last quarter. Left with no other option, Raspberry Pi is having to increase its own prices yet again – a move that will impact most o…
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Nvidia’s $100B OpenAI Deal Is ‘On Ice.’ So Why Are They Investing $30B?
Grant Harvey / eweek - Nvidia’s $100B OpenAI partnership is reportedly on ice, yet Nvidia may invest $30B anyway. Here’s what stalled, what changed, and why it matters.The post Nvidia’s $100B OpenAI Deal Is ‘On Ice.’ So Why Are They Investing $30B? appeared first on eWEEK.
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The $100 Billion Megadeal Between OpenAI and Nvidia Is on Ice
Berber Jin / wsj - Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has privately played down the likelihood the original deal will be finalized, although the two companies will continue to have a close collaboration.
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DeepSeek reportedly gets China's approval to buy NVIDIA's H200 AI chips
Mariella Moon / engadget - The Chinese government has given DeepSeek its approval to purchase NVIDIA’s H200 AI chips, according to Reuters. ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent have also reportedly received permission from Beijing to buy a total of 400,000 H200 GPUs. Reuters says Chinese…
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Apple Concedes It Entered The New Year With “Depleted Inventories” And “Less Flexibility” As Memory And Advanced Node Supply Constraints Begin To Bite
Rohail Saleem / wccftech - Apple is beginning to feel the pinch from the oncoming constraints around memory products and TSMC's choked advanced node supply lines, albeit in a managed fashion. This is the biggest takeaway from Apple's just-concluded Q1 2026 earnings call. Apple is f…
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(LEAD) Samsung Electronics posts record operating profit in Q4 amid AI boom
Kang Yoon-seung / co - SEOUL, Jan. 29 (Yonhap) -- Samsung Electronics Co. on Thursday said it has poste...
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Beijing clears Nvidia’s H200 imports, ending chip uncertainty for China tech giants
scmp - Beijing has begun approving imports of Nvidia’s H200 graphics processing units (GPUs), according to two sources familiar with the matter, ending regulatory uncertainty over the US tech giant’s second most powerful artificial intelligence chip.The first ba…
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ASML bookings nearly double expectations on AI demand
Erik van Klinken / techzine - ASML reported record quarterly bookings of 13.2 billion euros in Q4 2025, nearly doubling analyst predictions. The Dutch chip equipment maker’s results highlight once more that the AI infrastructure buildout shows no signs of slowing down. The Veldhoven-b…
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