Intel’s EMIB packaging gains traction as chip designers look to skirt TSMC’s CoWoS constraints — Google’s reported decision for 9th-gen TPUs highlights Intel’s attractive alternative
Intel’s EMIB packaging gains traction as chip designers look to skirt TSMC’s CoWoS constraints — Google’s reported decision for 9th-gen TPUs highlights Intel’s attractive alternative

Google has reportedly chosen Intel’s EMIB-T over TSMC’s CoWoS-L for its next-generation TPU, codenamed Humufish. But will Google be alone in its alleged decision?

Reflection signs a $1bn AI compute deal with Nebius, its second big capacity grab in a month
Reflection signs a $1bn AI compute deal with Nebius, its second big capacity grab in a month

Reflection AI has locked in more computing power. The US startup signed an AI compute deal worth more than $1bn with Nebius, the Amsterdam-based cloud provider, according to Bloomberg. The agreement runs through 2029. It gives Reflection access to Nvid…

Apple is in talks with the startup shrinking a 27B AI model onto an iPhone
Apple is in talks with the startup shrinking a 27B AI model onto an iPhone

Apple is in early talks with PrismML, a startup that shrinks large AI models to run directly on a phone. The company’s on-device AI pitch could help Apple keep more of Siri’s work off the cloud. PrismML chief executive Babak Hassibi told CNBC that Appl…

Micron commits $500 million to GlobalWafers’ Texas wafer plant as it raises U.S. spending to $250 billion — memory maker aims to manufacture 40% of DRAM in the US by 2035

Running until 2035, the $250 billion spending target is attached to a goal of making 40% of Micron’s DRAM in the U.S. by the mid-2030s.

Decoupling from China would cost the West $23.6tn
Decoupling from China would cost the West $23.6tn

Cutting the West’s reliance on China would carry a staggering price. A new study puts the cost of decoupling from China at $23.6tn over 25 years, and warns the bill would land hardest on the industries building Europe’s tech future. The West has spent …

The AI boom broke the memory market, and the bust could be brutal
The AI boom broke the memory market, and the bust could be brutal

The AI boom has broken the memory market’s oldest rule. Prices that should be falling are soaring instead, and the AI memory crunch will not ease until 2028. The hangover, when it comes, could be brutal. Memory is meant to be boring. For decades DRAM a…

Apple’s rumored M7 Ultra targets 1.5TB of memory and Blackwell-class AI performance, report claims — monster 2028 offering would depend on memory shortage easing
Apple’s rumored M7 Ultra targets 1.5TB of memory and Blackwell-class AI performance, report claims — monster 2028 offering would depend on memory shortage easing

Apple’s planned M7 Ultra chip is being designed to support up to 1.5 TB of unified memory and to push AI performance toward the class of Nvidia’s Blackwell accelerators.

SK Hynix raises $26.5B in the biggest foreign IPO in US history, is urged to build new US fabs

The AI chip boom just produced its biggest Wall Street moment yet. Now SK Hynix and Samsung are being asked to build U.S. factories.

SK hynix raises a record $26.5 billion in historic U.S. IPO — South Korean memory giant to fund massive HBM manufacturing expansions

SK hynix raised $26.5 billion in a record-breaking Nasdaq IPO, as it plans to channel the windfall from surging AI demand and sold-out HBM supply to fund new fabs.