Samsung Weighs Packaging Plant in Gwangju to Close HBM Gap
GWANGJU, South Korea—In the southwestern city known for its democracy movement and its automotive plants, Samsung Electronics is studying where to build its next advanced packaging factory, a move aimed…
DeepSeek Plans Gigawatt-Scale Data Centers of Its Own
HANGZHOU, China—The job posting appeared on DeepSeek’s careers page on a Tuesday with a title the company had never used before: IDC design and planning engineer. The description said the…
Tencent Sells $4.5 Billion of Bonds as It Buys Back Shares
HONG KONG—The announcement hit the exchange before the market opened: Tencent Holdings had priced $2.45 billion of dollar notes and 15 billion yuan of renminbi notes, roughly $4.5 billion in…
Lenovo to Raise Prices 15% as Memory Costs Surge
HONG KONG—The notice went out to Lenovo’s channel partners this week: from July, prices across the company’s product line would rise by about 15%, a jump the PC maker blamed…
EU Rejects Apple’s Siri AI Exemption Request
BRUSSELS—The reply arrived one day after Apple told the world its new voice assistant would not come to Europe: no. The European Commission on June 9 rejected Apple’s request for…
OpenAI, Anthropic and SpaceX Converge on a Record IPO Week
NEW YORK — The roadshow deck that Goldman Sachs bankers carried into investor meetings this month priced SpaceX at a fixed $135 a share, a figure that values the rocket…
Apple Overhauls Siri, Turns to Nvidia and Google in Cook’s Final WWDC
CUPERTINO, Calif. — Tim Cook walked onto the stage at Apple Park on Monday for the last keynote of his tenure as chief executive, and for more than an hour…
Microsoft-Backed Chip Startup D-Matrix Begins Shipping AI Inference Chips
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — The benchmark that decided d-Matrix’s future ran in a company lab this spring. Engineers paired a pair of the startup’s Corsair accelerators with an Nvidia Blackwell…
Broadcom, Apollo and Blackstone Line Up $35 Billion for AI Compute
NEW YORK — The joint announcement arrived on a Tuesday morning with numbers unlike anything the data-center financing business has seen. Broadcom, Apollo and Blackstone said they would create a…
Asian Chip Stocks Rebound After Wall Street’s Recovery
SEOUL — The circuit breaker that halted trading on the KOSPI on Monday was the kind of event markets do not forget quickly, and the rebound on Tuesday was the…
