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Micron Technology announced plans to invest up to $3 billion to strengthen the U.S. semiconductor supply chain, including a $500 million strategic financing commitment to GlobalWafers America for its new...
Rambus introduced a DDR5 9600 Server RDIMM chipset for next-generation CPU-based server platforms, increasing supported memory data rates to 9600 MT/s. The chipset centers on the company’s new sixth-generation Registering...
Apple expanded its semiconductor partnership with Broadcom through a new multiyear agreement expected to exceed $30 billion, covering the design and production of custom silicon components and wireless connectivity technologies...
SambaNova Systems completed the first close of $1 billion in Series F financing at an $11 billion post-money valuation, providing new capital to expand production capacity and deployments of its...
Parasail will deploy d-Matrix Corsair inference accelerators alongside NVIDIA Hopper and Blackwell GPUs to build a heterogeneous AI inference infrastructure designed to improve token generation performance and economics. The companies...
FuriosaAI expanded availability of its RNGD AI inference accelerator across Europe, starting with the installation of RNGD servers at Equinix’s LS2 data center in Lisbon. The deployment will give European...
Asahi Kasei opened a new slitting facility for SUNFORT dry film photoresist (DFR) at its manufacturing site in Tainan, Taiwan, expanding local production capacity for materials used in advanced semiconductor...
SiTime has completed its acquisition of the timing business of Renesas Electronics, closing a transaction first announced in February 2026 that significantly expands its portfolio of semiconductor timing products and...
Etched emerged from stealth mode, announcing a working AI inference chip, more than $1 billion in signed customer contracts, and $800 million raised across multiple previously undisclosed financing rounds. The latest financing closed...
BM introduced what it describes as the world’s first sub-1 nanometer semiconductor technology, unveiling a 0.7 nm (7 angstrom) logic process built around a new three-dimensional “nanostack” transistor architecture. The...
Applied Materials introduced a new portfolio of semiconductor manufacturing systems aimed at accelerating production of advanced DRAM and 3D chip packaging technologies that underpin AI processors. The new equipment spans...
xLight has appointed Thomas Caulfield to its Board of Directors as an independent director, adding one of the semiconductor industry’s most experienced executives as the company advances its free-electron laser...
NEW YORK — Qualcomm Technologies used its Investor Day to launch an ambitious data center roadmap centered on AI inference, unveiling the Qualcomm Dragonfly C1000 CPU, Qualcomm High Bandwidth Compute...
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