MatX Raises $500 Million To Develop AI Chips Competing With Nvidia
Clinton / ventureburn - MatX Accelerates AI Chip Innovation AI chip startup MatX has raised over $500 million to develop hardware that can compete directly with Nvidia. The company was founded in 2022 byThe post MatX Raises $500 Million To Develop AI Chips Competing With Nvidia …
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Meta Signs Massive AI Chip Deal with AMD
Usman Qureshi / iphoneincanada - Meta is partnering with AMD to deploy 6 gigawatts of AI power. The deal includes custom MI450 chips and could give Meta a 10 percent stake in AMD by 2026.The post Meta Signs Massive AI Chip Deal with AMD first appeared on iPhone in Canada.
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Dutch AI inference chipmaker Axelera AI raises $250M
John Reynolds / tech - A Dutch chipmaker which designs and manufactures chips for AI inference use has raised more than $250m, with backing from new investor BlackRock.Innovation Industries, the European VC fund, is the lea...
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Apple will start manufacturing the Mac mini in the US later this year
Reece Bithrey / theshortcut - With a brand new 220,000 square foot plant
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ASML Pushes EUV Light Source to 1,000 Watts, Targets 50% More Chip Output by 2030
Maria Garcia / implicator - ASML boosted its EUV light source to 1,000 watts by doubling tin droplet rates, targeting 50% more chip output per machine by 2030.
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AMD and Meta strike $100 billion AI deal that includes 10% stock deal — 6 gigawatt agreement includes up to 160 million AMD shares
tomshardware - AMD and Meta have announced an AI chips deal thought to be worth more than $100 billion.
- Analysts warn: circular financing and heavy dilution risks for AMD (3)
- Chips-for-equity: warrants could give Meta up to 10% (4)
- Meta diversifies from Nvidia; AMD emerges as key rival (2)
- Meta-AMD deal: 6GW MI450 deployment, shipments starting H2 2026 (7)
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Analysts warn: circular financing and heavy dilution risks for AMD
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Meta diversifies from Nvidia; AMD emerges as key rival
Meta-AMD deal: 6GW MI450 deployment, shipments starting H2 2026
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SambaNova steps up its challenge to Nvidia with new chip, $350M funding and a powerful ally in Intel
Mike Wheatley / siliconangle - Chipmaker SambaNova Systems Inc. unveiled its most advanced artificial intelligence processor today as it closed on a bumper $350 million late-stage round of funding from Vista Equity Partners, Cambium Capital and others. Alongside the funding, SambaNova …
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Apple Announces Plans to Begin Assembling Mac Mini in U.S. This Year
Joe Rossignol / macrumors - Apple today announced that Foxconn will begin assembling some Mac mini computers at a factory in Houston, Texas later this year.In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Apple's operations chief Sabih Khan said U.S. assembly of some Mac mini units is …
- Inside tours: Apple’s US supply-chain strategy and challenges (1)
- Mac mini assembly in Houston: Foxconn to produce US units (7)
- U.S. chip push: TSMC fabs and Apple chip sourcing (3)
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Inside tours: Apple’s US supply-chain strategy and challenges
Mac mini assembly in Houston: Foxconn to produce US units
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Nvidia superchip infusion finally coming to Windows PCs, report says
Tobias Mann / theregister - Nv-based integrated graphics for Wintel box also in the works Your next laptop may have Nvidia inside – not in the form of a GPU, but as a system on a chip, complete with CPU. Team Green could be chipping away at Intel's marketshare and giving people Arm-…
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ASML Boosts EUV Power to 1,000W for Better Yields and Lower Chip Costs
techpowerup - ASML says it has boosted the light source power in its EUV lithography systems to 1,000 watts, up from roughly 600 W today. According to a Reuters report, the company claims the increase could enable up to 50% more chip output by the end of the decade. Mo…
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Nvidia’s Next PC Play Is an AI Laptop Chip, Not Just a Faster GPU
eWEEK Staff / eweek - Nvidia is reportedly returning to consumer laptops with SoC-style processors via MediaTek and Intel tracks, betting AI PCs will reward tighter integration and better efficiency.The post Nvidia’s Next PC Play Is an AI Laptop Chip, Not Just a Faster GPU app…
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AMD Zen 6 and Intel Nova Lake CPUs reportedly arriving late, delayed to CES 2027 — next-gen chips rocked by industry turmoil
tomshardware - AMD and Intel are both preparing next-gen desktop CPUs with major architectural improvements that now seem to be delayed. This includes Nova Lake, which has been confirmed for a 2026 year-end release time and again, and Zen 6, which has been on AMD's road…
- Desktop CPU launches pushed to CES 2027, industry braces (6)
- Inside Intel: Nova Lake-S details and Unified Core plans (2)
- Other tech and market stories tangential to CPU delays (3)
Desktop CPU launches pushed to CES 2027, industry braces
Inside Intel: Nova Lake-S details and Unified Core plans
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There's a shortage of RAM (computer memory). How is this affecting the industry?
Scott Simon / npr - Memory chips (aka RAM) are in short supply, globally. Why and what does that mean for consumers
- Consumers feel the pinch: RAM prices, deals, and regional shifts (5)
- DRAM market shifts: Samsung, SK Hynix, Chinese entrants reshape supply (5)
- Lenovo warns partners: buy now to avoid March memory-driven hikes (4)
- OTHER: Misc PC items not central to the memory shortage (0)
Consumers feel the pinch: RAM prices, deals, and regional shifts
DRAM market shifts: Samsung, SK Hynix, Chinese entrants reshape supply
Lenovo warns partners: buy now to avoid March memory-driven hikes
OTHER: Misc PC items not central to the memory shortage
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OpenAI resets spending expectations, tells investors compute target is around $600 billion by 2030
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- AI compute demand shakes chipmakers, data-center financings and stocks (5)
- Altman defends AI energy use, mocks space data-centers claim (7)
- ChatGPT ads, pricing shifts, usage trends and safety issues (6)
- OpenAI warns $600B compute bill, revenue and accounting questions (8)
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AI compute demand shakes chipmakers, data-center financings and stocks
Altman defends AI energy use, mocks space data-centers claim
ChatGPT ads, pricing shifts, usage trends and safety issues
OpenAI warns $600B compute bill, revenue and accounting questions
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AMD Olympic Ridge “Zen 6” Ryzen Desktop CPUs Reportedly Launching In 2027
Hassan Mujtaba / wccftech - AMD is reportedly going to launch its next-gen Ryzen Desktop CPUs based on the Zen 6 architecture, codenamed Olympic Ridge, in 2027. AMD Eyeing 2027 For Its Next-Gen Ryzen Launch? Olympic Ridge With Zen 6 For Desktop Ready But Might Come After Intel's Nov…
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Ex-Google engineers accused of helping themselves to chip security secrets
Carly Page / theregister - Feds say trio conspired to siphon processor and cryptography IP, allegedly routing some data overseas Two former Google engineers and a third alleged accomplice are facing federal charges after prosecutors accused them of swiping sensitive chip and securi…
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Nvidia is in talks to invest up to $30 billion in OpenAI, source says
cnbc - The investment is separate from the $100 billion infrastructure agreement that OpenAI and Nvidia announced in September.
- Chip startup funding: model-specific AI chips raise $169M (1)
- Nvidia pivots: $30B equity replaces $100B infrastructure plan (11)
- OpenAI mega-round nears $100B, valuation targets near $850B (2)
Chip startup funding: model-specific AI chips raise $169M
Nvidia pivots: $30B equity replaces $100B infrastructure plan
OpenAI mega-round nears $100B, valuation targets near $850B
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Google Pixel 10a arrives with Tensor G4 chip and Satellite SOS
Emre Çıtak / dataconomy - Google introduced the Pixel 10a smartphone on Wednesday, priced at $499. The device is available for preorder immediately with shipments scheduled to start on March 5. It comes in four color options: Lavender, Berry, Fog, and Obsidian. The launch introduc…
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Meta signs major Nvidia deal to power AI data centers with Blackwell and Rubin GPUs
techspot - According to separate press releases from Meta and Nvidia, the social media giant will use the chips to power its planned hyperscale data centers optimized for AI training and inference. The company will also deploy Nvidia's new Spectrum-X Ethernet switch…
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NVIDIA Sells Remaining $140 Million Stake in Arm, Keeps Licensing Ties
techpowerup - Once a target of the largest industry acquisition that was halted by market regulators, NVIDIA has officially divested all its holdings in Arm Holdings PLC by selling 1.1 million shares, valued at about $140 million at the time of writing. Importantly, th…
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