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ARM signs Meta as first chip product customer, says report
ARM signs Meta as first chip product customer, says report
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ARM has signed Meta Platforms Inc., formerly Facebook, as its first customer for a chip product as it transitions from…
Nokia recruits Intel’s AI boss as CEO
Nokia recruits Intel’s AI boss as CEO
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Telecommunications infrastructure company Nokia Oy (Espoo, Finland) has appointed Justin Hotard, currently head of the Data Center and AI Group…
Groq raises US$1.5 billion as Saudi Arabia invests in AI
Groq raises US$1.5 billion as Saudi Arabia invests in AI
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Chip developer Groq Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.) has raised US$1.5 billion from Saudi Arabia to expand the kingdom’s AI infrastructure.
OpenAI preps tape-out of custom AI processor, says report
OpenAI preps tape-out of custom AI processor, says report
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Startup OpenAI, best known as the developer of the generative AI chatbot ChatGPT, will finish the design of an in-house…

Americas’ boom continues as China falters in global chip market
Americas’ boom continues as China falters in global chip market
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December global chip sales completed a year of strong market expansion but showed declining growth in China and other geographic regions and increased European chip market contraction. In the Americas…
ARM achieves sales above guidance but outlook disappoints
ARM achieves sales above guidance but outlook disappoints
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Semiconductor IP licensor Arm Holdings plc (Cambridge, England) is on course to achieve annual sales of US$4 billion as it achieved sales of US$983 million in the third quarter of…
Samsung hosts OpenAI, Softbank CEOs to discuss AI alliance
Samsung hosts OpenAI, Softbank CEOs to discuss AI alliance
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Lee Jae-yong, the chair of Samsung Electronics, has hosted a meeting with Sam Altman and Masayoshi Son, the CEOs of OpenAI and SoftBank Group respectively, in Seoul, Korea. The three…
TSMC plans for 1nm-capable gigafab in Tainan, says report
TSMC plans for 1nm-capable gigafab in Tainan, says report
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The world’s leading foundry TSMC has selected Shalun near Tainan in Taiwan as the location for Fab25, its 1nm gigafab, according to Taiwan’s United Daily News. The plan is to…
Infineon beats quarterly forecast, raises 2025 outlook
Infineon beats quarterly forecast, raises 2025 outlook
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Chip company Infineon Technologies AG (Munich, Germany) has beaten its own revenue forecast for its first quarter fiscal year 2025 and raised its outlook for the fiscal year. Infineon did…
Gartner is bullish on AI, sees 12.6% chip market growth in 2025
Gartner is bullish on AI, sees 12.6% chip market growth in 2025
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Global semiconductor revenue is set to rise by 12.6 percent in 2025 to US$705 billion, according to Gartner. This will be driven by AI demand and come after a strong…
President Trump re-iterates intention to impose tariffs on chips
President Trump re-iterates intention to impose tariffs on chips
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President Trump has repeated that he intends to impose tariffs on semiconductor products, saying they would apply to “chips and things associated with chips.” He spoke to press during a…
Trump vows to impose chip import tariffs of up to 100%
Trump vows to impose chip import tariffs of up to 100%
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President Donald Trump has said he will impose tariffs – of up to 100 percent – on semiconductors and computer chips and other essential products imported into the United States.
Sakura-I accelerator proved ready to provide AI in Space
Sakura-I accelerator proved ready to provide AI in Space
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Fabless chip company EdgeCortix Inc. (Tokyo, Japan) has said NASA radiation tests on its Sakura-I chip show it is suitable for missions in Earth orbit and on the lunar surface…
Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger invests in UK AI startup Fractile
Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger invests in UK AI startup Fractile
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Pat Gelsinger, who recently quit as CEO of chip giant Intel, has said he has made an investment in compute-in-memory startup Fractile Ltd. (London). In July 2024 Fractile announced it…
Graphic shows Nvidia, US domination of chip industry
Graphic shows Nvidia, US domination of chip industry
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An infographic of the semiconductor industry shows market capitalization as area while being organized by geographic region. The source of the infographic is Voronoi and the data is…
ARM refreshes senior management with EVP of operations, CMO
ARM refreshes senior management with EVP of operations, CMO
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ARM Holdings plc has appointed Eric Hayes (above) as executive vice president of operations with immediate effect. The appointment of Hayes comes two months after that of Ami Badani as…
Europe joins protests against Bidens’ AI chip sales restrictions
Europe joins protests against Bidens’ AI chip sales restrictions
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The European Commission has joined the protests against the US government’s just-introduced Interim Final Rule (IFR) that caps the sale of AI and GPU chips around the world. The IFR…
Rapidus plans to send 2nm chips to Broadcom in June, says report
Rapidus plans to send 2nm chips to Broadcom in June, says report
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Japanese startup foundry Rapidus Inc. is planning to supply a 2nm prototype IC to US fabless chip company Broadcom in June, according to Nikkei. The supply is part of push…
SIA, Nvidia slam proposed global restrictions on US AI chip exports
SIA, Nvidia slam proposed global restrictions on US AI chip exports
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The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) has criticised a US government plan to issue an export control ruling on AI chips that includes sweeping changes just days before the inauguration of…
TSMC’s sales stayed strong throughout 2024, lifting AI optimism
TSMC’s sales stayed strong throughout 2024, lifting AI optimism
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December sales at TSMC, the world’s leading foundry, exceeded expectations at NT$278.16 billion (about US$8.44 billion) sending AI stock prices higher. The sales were flat sequentially but 57.8 percent higher…
SemiKong semiconductor-specific LLM speeds chip design
SemiKong semiconductor-specific LLM speeds chip design
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SemiKong is an open-source large language model that has been designed to support the design and manufacturing chips by capturing industry-specific expertise. The LLM can be downloaded for free and…
Ambiq adds AI models to sub-threshold chips for hearing, seeing
Ambiq adds AI models to sub-threshold chips for hearing, seeing
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Ambiq Inc. (Austin, Texas) is offering AI-based audio and graphics processing models combined with its sub-threshold voltage logic chips. A neural network based speech de-noiser (NNSD) uses a real-time learning…
Nvidia’s Blackwell AI processor to run driverless trucks
Nvidia’s Blackwell AI processor to run driverless trucks
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Aurora Innovation Inc. (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) has announced a strategic partnership with automotive suppliers Continental and Nvidia to enable the deployment of driverless trucks at scale by 2027. Aurora was founded…
GPU pioneer Imagination up for sale, say reports
GPU pioneer Imagination up for sale, say reports
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Private equity company Canyon Bridge, the owner of Imagination Technologies Group Ltd. (Kings Langley, England), has instructed asset management firm Lazard to seek a buyer for the graphics pioneer, according…
Micron to spend US$2.2 billion to expand Virginia wafer fab
Micron to spend US$2.2 billion to expand Virginia wafer fab
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US memory chip manufacturer Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho) is planning to spend US$2.17 billion to expand and modernize its wafer fab at Manassas, Virginia. The project is set to…
Synaptics partners with Google for multi-modal edge AI for IoT
Synaptics partners with Google for multi-modal edge AI for IoT
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A partnership between technology giant Google and interface specialist Synaptics Inc. will integrate Google’s machine learning technology with Synaptics’ Astra AI hardware and open-source software. The goal is to develop…
SoftBank’s Izanagi AI processor could arrive in 2025, says report
SoftBank’s Izanagi AI processor could arrive in 2025, says report
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A prototype Izanagi AI processor from SoftBank Group Corp. could be available as early as the summer of 2025, according to a Bloomberg report. The report – which references sources…
Nvidia tapes-out B300 Blackwell, says report
Nvidia tapes-out B300 Blackwell, says report
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Nvidia Corp. has taped-out an upgraded Blackwell GPU, the B300, and tipped an improved Grace-Blackwell component, the GB300, according to SemiAnalysis. The B300 design targets the same 4NP 4nm-nominal manufacturing…


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