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Thursday 23 July 2026
Texas Instruments 2Q26: Revenue beats at $5.46B as industrial and auto recovery silences fab-spend doubters
Texas Instruments delivered a second-quarter 2026 result that topped Wall Street expectations and, more importantly for the industry, signaled that the analog chip cycle is turning...
Thursday 23 July 2026
AMD lands Anthropic as its third marquee AI customer, chipping at Nvidia's grip on training silicon
Advanced Micro Devices has signed Anthropic to a multi-year supply-and-investment pact worth tens of billions of US dollars, a deal that hands the chipmaker its third top-tier artificial-intelligence...
Wednesday 22 July 2026
Nvidia's Huang to meet Samsung, SK and Naver chiefs in Silicon Valley, reports say
Samsung Electronics executive chairman Lee Jae-yong, SK Group chairman Chey Tae-won and Naver founder and board chairman Lee Hae-jin are reportedly preparing to meet Nvidia CEO Jensen...
Wednesday 22 July 2026
Nvidia details Vera CPU for agentic AI workloads
Nvidia has outlined the design of its Vera CPU, positioning the chip for agentic AI systems that rely heavily on the processor for code execution, tool calls, retrieval, and data handling...
Wednesday 22 July 2026
Albany NanoTech Complex acquires ASML High NA EUV tools for chip research
Parts of ASML's next-generation high numerical aperture (High NA) extreme ultraviolet (EUV) machine have arrived in New York state, where they will be used for chipmaking R&D....
Wednesday 22 July 2026
Samsung's next Galaxy phones may deepen Qualcomm reliance, underscoring the limits of Exynos revival
Samsung Electronics is expected to rely heavily on Qualcomm chips in its next Galaxy phones, according to market reports, a sign that the company is still prioritizing flagship performance...
Wednesday 22 July 2026
'Don't panic about Kimi K3': Jensen Huang claims everyone got the logic backwards

The AI industry may be riding a wave of momentum, but two clouds have recently unsettled the outlook: growing public opposition to...

Wednesday 22 July 2026
Nvidia details AI rack strategy with Vera Rubin NVL72 and custom Vera CPU

Nvidia's newly detailed Vera Rubin NVL72 is being pitched less as a faster chip and more as a cheaper unit of AI output. This shift...

Wednesday 22 July 2026
Siemens to acquire Precision Innovations for AI-powered chip planning
Siemens said it has agreed to buy Precision Innovations in a deal that would add AI-powered chip planning tools to its electronic design automation business. The move could affect...
Wednesday 22 July 2026
Intel and Fortinet deepen collaboration on new security processor

Intel and Fortinet have expanded their long-standing partnership to develop the Fortinet Security Processor 6 (SP6), a move expected...

Wednesday 22 July 2026
China weighs stricter AI and chip export curbs after Kimi K3 benchmark win

China is considering tighter export controls on artificial intelligence and semiconductor technologies amid intensifying competition...

Tuesday 21 July 2026
Google developing 'frozen' chip that embeds Gemini models for efficiency gains

Google is reportedly developing a new chip that embeds information from its Gemini AI models directly onto the silicon to boost efficiency...

Tuesday 21 July 2026
Middlemen emerge as ASEAN's No. 2 AI compute buyers
In the AI computing race, Nvidia AI server chips remain red-hot, even as the US-China trade confrontation shows no sign of easing. Although Shopee and YTL Group are among the biggest...
Tuesday 21 July 2026
China's Z.ai reportedly powers up 1GW data center built entirely on domestic chips

Chinese AI developer Z.ai has completed a giant data center running exclusively on domestically made chips, a milestone in Beijing's...

Tuesday 21 July 2026
TSMC weighs margin hit against long-term AI payoff in US push

TSMC has announced an additional US$100 billion investment in the US on top of its existing US$165 billion commitment, expanding its...