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ARM loses out in Qualcomm court case, wants a re-trial
ARM loses out in Qualcomm court case, wants a re-trial
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A jury in Wilmington, Delaware, has found that Qualcomm’s latest AI-PC processors – based on the ARM instruction set –…
Micron’s record revenue eclipsed by weak outlook
Micron’s record revenue eclipsed by weak outlook
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Memory chip maker Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho) enjoyed record revenue in its first quarter of fiscal 2025 but saw…
Report: SK Hynix mulls offering advance packaging foundry service
Report: SK Hynix mulls offering advance packaging foundry service
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Memory chip vendor SK Hynix is considering a move into 2.5D chip packaging as a foundry outsource operation, according to…
Frontgrade Gaisler licenses Akida neural processor IP
Frontgrade Gaisler licenses Akida neural processor IP
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Rad-hard processor vendor Frontgrade Gaisler (Göteborg, Sweden) has taken a commercial license for the Akida neural processor IP from BrainChip…

Marvell partners with Micron, Samsung, SK Hynix on custom HBM
Marvell partners with Micron, Samsung, SK Hynix on custom HBM
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Marvell has said it has been working with the three leading memory chip makers – Micron, Samsung and SK Hynix – on a custom-HBM that improves the performance of its…
ST rolls out AI-microcontroller family
ST rolls out AI-microcontroller family
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ST has announced details of its STM32N6 family of 32bit ARM-based microcontrollers with a neural acceleration unit called Neural-Art on-chip. The addition of machine learning capabilities to a microcontroller makes…
Samsung, SK Hynix partner on processing-in-memory
Samsung, SK Hynix partner on processing-in-memory
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Memory chip manufacturers Samsung and SK Hynix are collaborating to standardize processing-in-memory (PIM) in the form of an LP-DDR6 memory, according to Business Korea. The collaboration includes preliminary work to…
Intel approaches Lip-Bu Tan, Marvell’s Murphy about CEO post
Intel approaches Lip-Bu Tan, Marvell’s Murphy about CEO post
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Intel has approached both former board member Lip-Bu Tan and Matt Murphy, CEO of Marvell, about taking the CEO post following the departure of Pat Gelsinger earlier this week, according…
Now Gelsinger is gone, what is Intel’s Plan B?
Now Gelsinger is gone, what is Intel’s Plan B?
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What is Intel going to do next? Do key decisions have to wait while the company finds a CEO to replace Pat Gelsinger, and where will it find a buyer…
Samsung leads US$700 million investment in Tenstorrent
Samsung leads US$700 million investment in Tenstorrent
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High-performance computing startup Tenstorrent Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.) has closed its Series D round of funding led by Samsung Securities at more than US$693 million. Samsung and AFW Partners led…
US government trims Intel’s CHIPS Act subsidy to US$7.86 billion
US government trims Intel’s CHIPS Act subsidy to US$7.86 billion
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The US Department of Commerce has awarded US$7.86 billion to Intel under the CHIPS and Science Act rather than the previously provisionally agreed US$8.5 billion. The cut has been made…
Chip market to weaken in 2025, says Semiconductor Intelligence
Chip market to weaken in 2025, says Semiconductor Intelligence
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Analyst Semiconductor Intelligence (SC-IQ) sees the global chip market growing by 19 percent annually in 2024 followed by 6 percent growth in 2025, as it expects a deceleration in AI…
ST adds to roadmap for AI-capable microcontrollers
ST adds to roadmap for AI-capable microcontrollers
Technology News |
STMicroelectronics NV is planning a series of upgrades to its proprietary neural network accelerator for microcontrollers to capitalize on an industry-wide trend towards AI at the edge. ST is the…
d-Matrix launches Corsair for AI inference without GPUs, HBM
d-Matrix launches Corsair for AI inference without GPUs, HBM
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d-Matrix Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.), a Microsoft-backed startup, has launched Corsair, its first AI processor, designed to speed through inferencing tasks. Corsair offers performance of 60,000 tokens/second at 1 ms/token…
Recogni’s logarithmic AI backed by Juniper Networks
Recogni’s logarithmic AI backed by Juniper Networks
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Juniper Networks Inc. has participated in AI startup Recogni’s US$102 million Series C round of financing co-led by Celesta Capital and GreatPoint Ventures. Juniper has said it will collaborate with…
Japan picks Tenstorrent to train engineers in leading-edge AI
Japan picks Tenstorrent to train engineers in leading-edge AI
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AI chip developer Tenstorrent (Toronto, Canada) has been commissioned by the Japanese government to provide five-years of training in leading-edge AI for up to 200 engineers. The training program will…
Alchip announces tape-out for 2nm process
Alchip announces tape-out for 2nm process
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Alchip Technologies Ltd. (Taipei, Taiwan) has said it has taped out a 2nm test chip and expects to see silicon back in the 1Q25. The company also reports that it…
AI demand set to drive processor market boom
AI demand set to drive processor market boom
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The microprocessor IC market is set to grow rapidly driven by demand for silicon to support generative AI, but market leader Intel is under pressure on multiple fronts, according to…
Silicon photonic platform supports room-temp quantum computing
Silicon photonic platform supports room-temp quantum computing
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Artilux Inc. (Zhubei, Taiwan) has collaborated with academic Richard Soref from The University of Massachusetts to investigate quantum information processing on an integrated silicon photonics platform. Artilux, founded in 2014,…
Literal Labs scores 50x better AI performance using ‘Tsetlin’ approach
Literal Labs scores 50x better AI performance using ‘Tsetlin’ approach
Startups |
UK startup Literal Labs has published benchmarks for anomaly detection using Tsetlin machine software that show an approximately 50x uplift in inference performance compared with the best alternatives. Literal Labs…
Startup uses LLMs to understand complex code, write documentation
Startup uses LLMs to understand complex code, write documentation
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A 2023 startup called Driver Inc. (Austin, Texas) has raised US$8 million in seed funding to develop its AI approach to analysing software and speeding the generation of technical documentation.
Flexible RISC-V processor offers prospect of low-cost smart objects
Flexible RISC-V processor offers prospect of low-cost smart objects
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Flexible circuit pioneer Pragmatic Semiconductor Ltd. has reported the development of a non-silicon RISC-V processor that operates while being flexed and is also the first flexible processor with machine learning…
Voice interface is always-on, on-device, at the edge
Voice interface is always-on, on-device, at the edge
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Edge AI processor company Syntiant Corp. (Irvine, Calif.) has announced a proprietary on-device, small language model voice assistant (SLMA). The voice recognizing software is portable across hardware platforms and offers…
Samsung begins making QLC 1Tbit 3D-NAND
Samsung begins making QLC 1Tbit 3D-NAND
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Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has begun mass production of a 1Tbit quad-level cell (QLC) vertical NAND non-volatile memory. The memory will be deployed in solid-state drives (SSDs) and Universal Flash…
OpenAI joins Apple as a lead customer for TSMC’s A16 process, says report
OpenAI joins Apple as a lead customer for TSMC’s A16 process, says report
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OpenAI, the developer of the generative AI chatbot ChatGPT, has joined Apple as a lead customer for TSMC’s nominal 1.6nm manufacturing process, according to Taiwan’s Economic Daily News. Apple has…
Nvidia beats guidance but disappoints market
Nvidia beats guidance but disappoints market
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AI processor market leader Nvidia’s achieved US$30 billion revenue in its second quarter of FY2025. This beat its own guidance and analysts’ forecasts of US$28 billion but still disappointed the…
Nvidia dominates AI processor market set to hit US$100bn in 2026
Nvidia dominates AI processor market set to hit US$100bn in 2026
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Nvidia held 92 percent of the GPU-for-AI market in 2023 and 75 percent of the data center AI semiconductor market overall, according to Futurum Intelligence (Austin, Texas). And this domination…
AMD agrees to buy server provider ZT Systems for US$4.9 billion
AMD agrees to buy server provider ZT Systems for US$4.9 billion
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Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.) has agreed to buy ZT Systems Inc. (Secaucus, New Jersey), a vendor of computer hardware for the datacenter, for US$4.9 billion in cash…


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