Raspberry Pi’s revenue jumps 90% as its memory stockpile pays off
Raspberry Pi’s revenue jumps 90% as its memory stockpile pays off

Raspberry Pi nearly doubled its revenue in the first half of 2026, helped by memory chips it stockpiled before prices soared. Revenue rose 90% to $256.9 million in the six months to 30 June, the company said in its interim results on Thursday. A year e…

Qualcomm launches AI earbud chip, glasses platforms and a health alliance
Qualcomm launches AI earbud chip, glasses platforms and a health alliance

Qualcomm wants earbuds and glasses, not phone screens, to be the way people talk to AI agents. At its Snapdragon Summit in Maui, it launched Snapdragon Sound Elite Gen 2, its first audio chip built for AI agents, and new platforms for smart glasses. Zi…

Qualcomm splits its flagship phone chip in two with the 8 Elite Gen 6
Qualcomm splits its flagship phone chip in two with the 8 Elite Gen 6

Qualcomm has split its flagship phone chip in two. At its Snapdragon Summit in Maui on Tuesday, it launched the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 and the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6, both built on a 2nm process. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. makes…

Snapdragon Summit: Qualcomm’s 5GHz phone chips, AI earbuds and Linux PCs
Snapdragon Summit: Qualcomm’s 5GHz phone chips, AI earbuds and Linux PCs

Qualcomm used its Snapdragon Summit in Maui this week to pitch its chips as the hardware for AI agents. In three days, it launched two flagship phone chips and a chip for AI earbuds and glasses. It also brought Linux to its X2 laptop processors. Chief …

Intel expects 14A to be ‘within 5%’ the performance of TSMC’s A14

Intel’s Naga Chandrasekaran now claims that Intel 14A node will deliver performance ‘within 5%’ of TSMC’s A14 technology, a claim that requires a closer examination.

Liquid AI puts a personal context layer for AI agents on Snapdragon chips
Liquid AI puts a personal context layer for AI agents on Snapdragon chips

Liquid AI has tuned Liquid Context to run on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chips. The software builds a picture of the user on the device itself. The company announced the work at Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit in Maui on Wednesday. A day later, it released a to…

ASML says it sold ‘absolutely nothing’ in Europe in 2026
ASML says it sold ‘absolutely nothing’ in Europe in 2026

ASML calls EU authorities to help create demand for European chips as Europe’s share in its revenue drops to 0% in 2026.

Alibaba says its new Zhenwu V900 is China’s most powerful AI chip
Alibaba says its new Zhenwu V900 is China’s most powerful AI chip

The most powerful AI chip in China today, delivering three times the performance of its predecessor, the Zhenwu M890. That is how Eddie Wu described the processor Alibaba unveiled on Tuesday. The chief executive was speaking at Apsara, the company’s an…

China’s biggest memory maker says it has caught up with Samsung and Micron
China’s biggest memory maker says it has caught up with Samsung and Micron

Our process capability is now on par with the most advanced mass-produced nodes out there in the industry. Luo Xiaodong, vice president of ChangXin Memory Technologies and head of its marketing centre, said that at the World Manufacturing Convention in…

Singapore’s Nexstrom wants to bring 2D semiconductors to chip fabs

Singapore-based Nexstrom has raised new funding to develop equipment that could help chipmakers manufacture 2D semiconductor materials at scale.