AMD to Acquire AI Inference Chip Startup Taalas
TORONTO—The startup’s pitch has always sounded slightly heretical in an industry built on general-purpose chips. Taalas, a company founded in 2023 in this city’s tech district, makes processors that are…
SpaceX and Tesla Plan Chip-Making Complex in Texas
GRIMES COUNTY, Texas—The announcement went out late on Aug. 6 with the kind of numbers that usually accompany national infrastructure projects, not corporate press releases. SpaceX and Tesla, the two…
SK Hynix Plans Record 54 Trillion Won Investment in Korea
SEOUL—The two-page disclosure landed on South Korea’s stock exchange shortly after the opening bell on Aug. 7, and by lunchtime it had become the most-watched filing in the country’s chip…
Memory Shortage Reaches Consumers: Graphics Cards Up 20%, Qualcomm Next
MSI’s price bulletins went out this week, and the numbers were blunt: graphics cards up more than 20%, with the company blaming the cost of memory. The move followed ASUS…
Nvidia, Ooredoo and Nokia to Build 1-Gigawatt AI Platform in Indonesia
The announcement from Ooredoo came with a number that has become the new unit of ambition in the global AI race: one gigawatt. The Qatari telecommunications group said it will…
Microsoft’s AI Revenue Rides on OpenAI, New Filing Shows
The number had been the subject of months of investor guessing, and a new regulatory filing finally supplied it: about $24 billion. That is what Microsoft booked from OpenAI over…
Tesla Starts Mass Production of Megapack 3 Storage Units
The first units were rolling off the line this week, and for Tesla’s energy division the moment was a long time coming. Megapack 3, the company’s next-generation grid-scale storage product,…
TSMC Sits on $1 Billion in Finished Apple Chips as DRAM Shortage Bites
Inside TSMC’s fabs, the work is done. The 2-nanometer chips Apple ordered are manufactured, tested and packed, worth roughly $1 billion, or about NT$32 billion. And there they sit, because…
Apple Buys Czech Materials Firm PlasmaSolve
The acquisition had been whispered about since early August; this week, trade publications including Photonics Spectra confirmed it. Apple has bought PlasmaSolve, a Czech materials-science company whose specialty is plasma…
SoftBank’s Quarterly Profit Beats Forecasts as Intel Stake Yields $8.2 Billion
When SoftBank Group’s April-June results crossed the wires on Wednesday, the headline number appeared to disappoint: net profit fell 18% from a year earlier. Then the market looked at the…
