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Apple's first 2-nanometer chip delivers dual Neural Engines and 30% more GPU AI compute, while the M5 Ultra packs 512GB of unified memory into the new Mac Studio.
Xiaomi's new 3nm mobile SoC beats every current Android flagship in benchmarks, matches Apple A19 Pro in single-core performance, and claims multi-core superiority over Apple's M4.
Nvidia has told its largest customers to expect price increases above 15% on servers built around its Grace Blackwell and Vera Rubin chips, driven by a sharp spike in DRAM and HBM memory costs.
Google can purchase up to 58.97 million Marvell shares at $206.58 each under a warrant tied to chip purchase targets through fiscal 2033, sending Marvell shares up nearly 10 percent and rival Broadcom down.
The South Korean chipmaker controls 58% of the HBM market and is tripling capacity by 2034, backed by long-term supply agreements with Nvidia and $22 billion in government support.
Intel closed a $20 billion equity raise — upsized from an initial $15 billion target — at $95 per share, funding a foundry expansion race built on its upcoming 14A manufacturing process.
The two Musk companies are building their own semiconductor supply chain, citing combined chip demand of more than 1 terawatt of compute — far beyond what the world currently produces.
Apple's best-selling laptop is now caught in the same AI-driven memory squeeze that has already hit budget hardware, with online orders slipping to a 2-6 week wait and higher-RAM configurations delayed even longer.
AMD's best quarter in 56 years — $11.5B revenue, data center sales doubled — couldn't offset the shock of Elon Musk announcing SpaceX's new Starmind orbital compute platform will run exclusively on Nvidia Rubin GPUs.
Intel is handing RosaicLabs, a Delaware startup incorporated in May 2026, synthesizable RTL code for its Atom processor cores — letting an outside company build custom x86 chips for the first time in Intel's history. The startup's CEO has a long investing history with Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan.
The U.S. Commerce Department will award GlobalFoundries $300 million under the CHIPS Act to accelerate silicon photonics — and take a roughly 1% equity stake in the company as part of the deal.
Samsung's semiconductor business delivered an all-time high operating profit of KRW 89.5 trillion ($62 billion) in Q2 2026, as AI server demand pushed memory prices and volumes to new records.