China is suspending several technology export control measures that had restricted rare earths and gallium shipments. The move appears to confirm commitments made during the recent Trump-Xi meeting in Korea. This comes as TSMC reports its slowest sales growth since February.
Intel is suing a former software engineer for allegedly stealing 18,000 files, including documents marked “Intel Top Secret,” just before his termination. The company claims Jinfeng Luo downloaded the sensitive data days before his July 31 departure and has since vanished. Intel seeks at least $250,
Samsung is bringing next-generation memory and storage to CES 2026 with award-winning LPDDR6 and PM9E1 SSD solutions. The LPDDR6 memory achieves 10.7 Gbps speeds with 21% better efficiency than current LPDDR5. Meanwhile, the compact PM9E1 Gen5 SSD hits 14.8 GB/s read speeds in a tiny 22x42mm form fa
Elon Musk announced Tesla needs to build its own semiconductor factory to meet AI chip demand. The “terra fab” could eventually scale to 1 million wafer starts per month. This comes as Musk secured a new pay package worth up to $1 trillion.
Google’s TPU v7 Ironwood accelerators deliver Blackwell-level performance with 4.6 petaFLOPS FP8 and 192GB HBM3e memory. The real story is Google’s ability to scale these into pods of up to 9,216 chips, dwarfing Nvidia’s rack-scale approach. This could reshape the AI hardware landscape as major play
Boise State University has secured a $1.5 million defense research award to develop advanced gallium nitride materials. The funding will support new instrumentation and training for semiconductor research. This positions the university as a growing hub for defense-related materials innovation.
MACOM Technology Solutions has secured an exclusive license to manufacture products using HRL Laboratories’ proprietary 40nm T3L gallium nitride-on-silicon carbide process. The technology was developed under DARPA and Department of Defense programs and will be transferred to MACOM’s US Trusted Found
AMD just posted its best quarter ever with $9.2 billion in revenue, fueled by explosive growth in AI chips and server CPUs. The company’s deepening partnership with OpenAI could drive over $100 billion in revenue as it challenges Nvidia’s dominance.
China is reportedly subsidizing electricity costs for data centers using domestic AI chips from Huawei and Cambricon. These chips are 30-50% less power efficient than NVIDIA’s H20 AI chip, creating massive energy bills. The subsidies aim to keep Chinese companies loyal to local technology amid US re
NVIDIA’s achievement of manufacturing Blackwell AI chips in the United States wouldn’t have been possible without Taiwanese partners. CEO Jensen Huang specifically credited TSMC, Foxconn, Wistron, Amkor and SPIL for their rapid collaboration. The entire supply chain came together in just nine months
