Fujitsu wins contract to design next-gen flagship supercomputer
June 20, 2025
FugakuNEXT will leverage Fujitsu’s established supercomputing expertise, incorporating advanced technologies from the FUJITSU-MONAKA general-purpose CPU currently under development, and will allow for seamless integration with GPUs and other accelerators.
MIPS partners with Cyient to enhance RISC-V-based intelligent power solutions
June 13, 2025
The partnership will focus on enabling real-time, safety-critical applications, power delivery, and compute efficiency in demanding platforms for automotive, industrial and data center markets.
Qualcomm to acquire Alphawave Semi in $2.4 billion deal
June 10, 2025
Qualcomm Incorporated has signed a definitive agreement to acquire UK-based Alphawave IP Group plc (Alphawave Semi) in a transaction valued at approximately USD 2.4 billion. The acquisition, executed through Qualcomm’s indirect subsidiary Aqua Acquisition Sub LLC, marks a strategic move aimed at accelerating Qualcomm’s expansion into data centre markets.
CITIC, Sangfor deepen hybrid cloud partnership
March 25, 2025
The new SmartCLOUD C-FUSION hybrid cloud series integrates the full-stack SmartCLOUD dedicated private cloud, virtual private cloud and public cloud services.
SoftBank to acquire US chip designer Ampere in $6.5B deal
March 20, 2025
Carlyle Group and Oracle will sell their stakes in Ampere, which will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of Japanese conglomerate SoftBank and keep its headquarters in Santa Clara, California.
Top 10 IC design houses See 49% YoY growth in 2024
March 18, 2025
TrendForce reports that the combined revenue of the world’s top 10 IC design houses reached approximately USD 249.8 billion in 2024, marking a 49% YoY growth. The surge is largely attributed to the booming AI industry, with Nvidia dominating the market.
Is Arm expanding its Bengaluru operations?
February 24, 2025
In India, Arm’s team of computer engineers work on architecture development, CPU and system design and verification, software enablement, compute solutions, and physical implementation.
Graid announces SupremeRAID SE Support for GeForce RTX 5000
February 14, 2025
With support for the GeForce RTX 5090, 5080, 5070 Ti, 5070, and 5060, professionals can leverage NVIDIA’s most powerful GPUs to maximize NVMe SSD performance, the company said.
imec spin-off, Vertical Compute raises €20 million
January 15, 2025
Vertical Compute, founded by CEO Sylvain Dubois (ex-Google) and CTO Sebastien Couet (ex-imec), has closed a seed investment round of EUR 20 million.
Qualcomm scores victory in chips trial against Arm
December 23, 2024
Jurors concluded that Qualcomm didn’t violate the terms of an agreement covering Arm’s chip products acquired while purchasing Nuvia by incorporating tech without paying a higher licensing rate.
Fujitsu, AMD partner to develop sustainable computing infrastructure
November 01, 2024
The partnership seeks to facilitate the creation of open source and energy efficient platforms comprised of advanced processors with superior power performance and highly flexible AI/HPC software.
Tachyum expands European hub – opens new Czech offices
September 26, 2024
Tachyum has officially opened its new location in Brno, Czech Republic, to support the company’s growth as it nears the tape-out of the Prodigy Universal Processor Chip. The first hardware engineers hired will start on the first of November.
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AMD to acquire hyperscale solutions provider ZT Systems
August 20, 2024
AMD has signed a definitive agreement to acquire ZT Systems, a provider of AI infrastructure for some of the world’s largest hyperscale computing companies, for USD 4.9 billion.
Qualcomm launches ultra-affordable 5G chipset
July 31, 2024
US chip designer Qualcomm has officially unveiled its Snapdragon 4s Gen 2 chipset at an event in India. It expects the affordable tech to 'bring 5G connectivity to a broader audience'.
Imagination Technologies bags $100m in private investment
July 25, 2024
UK-based chip designer Imagination Technologies has secured a USD 100 million convertible term loan from the Fortress Investment Group to 'power advances across graphics, compute and AI at the edge.'
Doosan Tesna to start build of $160m chip testing plant
July 09, 2024
South Korea’s Doosan Tesna is set to construct a semiconductor testing factory in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi Province, to meet growing demand for the inspection of new system on chip (SoC) tech.
Demand from AMD and Nvidia drives FOPLP development
July 03, 2024
In 2016, TSMC developed and named its InFO FOWLP technology, and applied it to the A10 processor used in the iPhone 7. Since then, OSAT providers have been striving to develop FOWLP and FOPLP technologies to offer more cost-effective packaging solutions, TrendForce reports.
Arm reveals AI-optimised chip designs
May 31, 2024
UK-based chip design licensor Arm has unveiled hardware designs and software tools that will make it easier for developers to design AI applications for smartphones that use Arm-based chips.
Fabless startup MetisX secures $44m in Series A funding
May 20, 2024
The South Korean firm has now raised more than USD 50 million since 2022 to accelerate its vision of a data-centric approach to next-gen memory chip design.
SK hynix presents memory tech that stores and computes data
May 17, 2024
South Korea's memory giant SK hynix is working on a ‘dream semiconductor’, which could re-define the capabilities of the traditional memory chip.
The foundry industry is showing signs of stabilisation
May 01, 2024
The foundry industry is showing signs of stabilisation, marked by a 10% QoQ growth, indicative of ongoing inventory normalisation, says Counterpoint Research.
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Arm, Intel Google and Meta launch self-designed AI chips
April 12, 2024
The future direction for dominance in the AI chip space took another turn this week as four huge stakeholders revealed their own products.
Rapidus and Tenstorrent to develop edge-AI accelerator
March 01, 2024
The two companies have announced an official collaboration to develop dedicated 2nm chips for powering AI in a variety of products from robots to automotive. The scheduled production date is 2028.
Are we facing a memory divide?
February 28, 2024
Without a doubt, AI is the hype topic in technology at the moment. It’s significantly shaping and driving memory development as it needs high-speed, high-bandwidth and low-power memory technologies. Among these, it’s particularly HBM that is getting a lot of attention.
Samsung to deliver Arm's next generation Cortex-X CPUs
February 26, 2024
Samsung Electronics has confirmed a partnership with Arm that will see the Korean chip maker optimise Arm's Cortex-X CPUs for its new Gate-All-Around (GAA) process technology.
Intel loses German patent infringement case
February 09, 2024
A German court has judged against Intel in a patent dispute surrounding a number of its older processors.
Qualcomm takes on Apple with spatial computing chip
January 08, 2024
Mobile chip giant Qualcomm has revealed a new Snapdragon chip designed especially for mixed-reality devices that will compete with Apple's Vision Pro.
Synopsys acquires RISC-V specialist Imperas
December 21, 2023
California-based Synopsys has bought its compatriot company Imperas to better address customer demand for RISC-V-based advanced SoCs.
China continues to enhance AI chip self-sufficiency,
December 11, 2023
Huawei’s subsidiary HiSilicon has made significant strides in the independent R&D of AI chips, launching the next-gen Ascend 910B. These chips are utilised not only in Huawei's public cloud infrastructure but also sold to other Chinese companies.
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