IBM’s new 0.7nm-class fabrication process uses nanostack transistors, requires 2x more FEOL steps for massive improvements in performance, power, and area.
Named Jalapeño, the new processor was designed specifically for the unique needs of OpenAI’s inference systems.
TSMC has reportedly told customers to prepare for 5% to 10% price hikes across advanced chip nodes, extending beyond 3nm to include 7nm and some legacy processes.
Reflection AI will pay SpaceX $150mn a month for Nvidia chips at Colossus 2, a deal worth roughly $6.3bn by 2029. The SpaceX Reflection AI deal puts Nvidia on both sides of the trade. SpaceX has signed another giant compute tenant. This time it is Refl…
Groq has confirmed a $650mn raise to rebuild itself as an AI inference cloud, six months after Nvidia paid out its investors and hired away its founder. The Groq $650M round is a bet that purpose-built chips still beat GPUs. Groq spent years as one of …
Nearfield Instruments, a Rotterdam firm that inspects chips at the atomic scale, has raised $380mn at a $1.6bn valuation. It is the largest deep-tech round in Dutch history, and sovereign funds are paying close attention. Everyone knows the headline na…
Qualcomm is closing in on a deal to buy AI-software startup Modular for about $4bn. The Qualcomm Modular deal would hand the chipmaker fresh ammunition in its fight to rival Nvidia. Qualcomm has entered advanced talks to acquire Modular, according to B…
We just witnessed a significant semiconductor industry related non-cash trade deal take place on Twitter/X.
AI’s next bottleneck is not the chips. It is the wiring between them. As clusters grow to hundreds of thousands of GPUs, the copper links that shuttle data between them are running out of road. So the industry is racing to move that traffic onto light …
To build a serious rival to Nvidia, Google has reached for Nvidia’s own playbook. A Wall Street Journal investigation lays out how Google is using financial guarantees and what the industry calls “circular financing”, the very tactics that helped make …