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Nvidia invests $3.5B in MediaTek to co-opt the custom AI chip wave

MediaTek gets NVLink Fusion access to design custom silicon for hyperscalers — inside Nvidia's rack-scale stack, not outside it.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Nvidia posts $96.2B quarter, guides to $108B as data center doubles
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Nvidia posts $96.2B quarter, guides to $108B as data center doubles

Data center revenue hit $89B, profits doubled to $59.7B, and Nvidia is now one quarter away from joining the $100B-per-quarter club.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
Marvell jumps 6% on Google deal for up to $12.2B stake tied to AI chips
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Marvell jumps 6% on Google deal for up to $12.2B stake tied to AI chips

Google gains the right to buy 58.9M Marvell shares at $206.58 apiece through fiscal 2033, expanding its custom silicon push beyond Broadcom.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
Etched hits $21B valuation as Jane Street leads $700M round
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Etched hits $21B valuation as Jane Street leads $700M round

The AI inference chip startup doubled its price tag in a month after the quant fund tested its hardware and bought a rack.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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Anthropic builds custom silicon team to design its own AI chips

The Claude maker is hiring chip engineers and reportedly scouting Samsung as a fab partner, joining OpenAI and Google in vertical hardware moves.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
Etched raises $300M Series C at $10.3B, doubling valuation in seven months
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Etched raises $300M Series C at $10.3B, doubling valuation in seven months

Sequoia led the round; the AI inference chip startup says it has booked $1B in orders and is running silicon in its lab.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Google's Frozen v2 chip targets 6-10x efficiency gain for Gemini

Alphabet is designing a 2028 server chip to run Gemini cheaper as it spends $190B on AI infrastructure this year.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
South Korea forecasts 2026 growth at 5-year high on AI chip demand
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South Korea forecasts 2026 growth at 5-year high on AI chip demand

Seoul projects 2.6% GDP growth in 2026, up from 2.2% in 2025, as memory-chip orders from AI data-center buildouts drive exports.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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Meta starts production of MTIA AI chips in September to cut Nvidia dependence

The social giant is spending up to $145B this year on AI compute and wants its own silicon to blunt GPU costs.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
SambaNova raises $1B at $11B valuation five months after Series E
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SambaNova raises $1B at $11B valuation five months after Series E

General Atlantic leads the first close as the AI chip maker locks in JPMorgan Chase as an inference-infrastructure customer.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Samsung set to post 18-fold profit jump on AI memory demand
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Samsung set to post 18-fold profit jump on AI memory demand

The Korean chipmaker's earnings surge tracks the HBM buildout powering Nvidia, AMD, and every frontier AI training cluster.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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Anthropic in talks with Samsung on a custom AI chip

The Claude maker is exploring a Samsung-built processor as competitors OpenAI, Google, and Amazon race to reduce Nvidia dependence.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
Etched hits $5B valuation with $1B booked for its AI inference chip
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Etched hits $5B valuation with $1B booked for its AI inference chip

The Harvard-dropout founders raised $500M in December and have TSMC-manufactured silicon in customer hands.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
China's CXMT lands $3B memory supply deal with Tencent
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China's CXMT lands $3B memory supply deal with Tencent

The deal hands a domestic Chinese memory maker its largest AI customer to date, as Tencent races to secure chips for data center buildouts.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
Baidu's chip unit Kunlunxin eyes $50 billion Hong Kong IPO
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Baidu's chip unit Kunlunxin eyes $50 billion Hong Kong IPO

The AI accelerator spinout would list in Hong Kong at a valuation that rivals top global chip designers, per The Information.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
Naveen Rao's Unconventional AI claims a 1,000x cut in inference power
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Naveen Rao's Unconventional AI claims a 1,000x cut in inference power

The ex-Databricks AI chief released Un-0, an image model running on a simulated oscillator chip, with silicon schematics promised next.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
IBM unveils nanostack architecture, claims first sub-1nm chip tech
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IBM unveils nanostack architecture, claims first sub-1nm chip tech

The 0.7nm node packs nearly 100 billion transistors on a fingernail-sized chip, with 50% more performance than 2nm silicon.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Cerebras stock drops 20% after margin guidance spooks first earnings call
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Cerebras stock drops 20% after margin guidance spooks first earnings call

The AI chipmaker beat Q1 estimates with $193M in revenue, but a 38–41% full-year margin forecast triggered the selloff.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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OpenAI unveils Jalapeño, its first custom inference chip built with Broadcom

The processor targets inference workloads and was co-developed using OpenAI's own models, with early tests showing better performance-per-watt.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
SK Hynix plans $29B Nasdaq ADR listing to court US AI investors
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SK Hynix plans $29B Nasdaq ADR listing to court US AI investors

The HBM leader expects to start trading July 10, issuing 17.79 million shares at a 45.45 trillion won value to broaden its US base.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Groq seeks $650M from existing investors after Nvidia's $20B licensing deal
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Groq seeks $650M from existing investors after Nvidia's $20B licensing deal

The AI chip startup is doubling down on its inference cloud business under interim CEO Adam Winter, with Disruptive and Infinitium backstopping the round.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
SK Hynix nears $1 trillion market value as AI memory demand surges
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SK Hynix nears $1 trillion market value as AI memory demand surges

The Korean memory maker is closing in on a milestone reached only by a handful of companies, powered by HBM orders from AI chipmakers.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
TSMC projects global chip market to reach $1.5 trillion by 2030 on AI demand
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TSMC projects global chip market to reach $1.5 trillion by 2030 on AI demand

The world's largest contract chipmaker says AI workloads are the primary engine pushing semiconductor revenue past the trillion-dollar mark this decade.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
Cerebras lifts IPO price range to $150-$160 on strong demand
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Cerebras lifts IPO price range to $150-$160 on strong demand

The AI chipmaker is raising its target ahead of pricing as order books fill, pushing Cerebras toward a richer public-market debut.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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