Tesla Prepares to Show a Roadster That Hovers
Tesla has spent months describing an event that it kept postponing. On Thursday night it either shows the car or it does not. The second generation of the Roadster is…
Jio Platforms Opens India’s Largest Share Sale
The largest share sale in India’s history will not be conducted by a company looking for capital. It will be conducted by one that has all it needs. Jio Platforms,…
Intel, AMD and Qualcomm Raise CPU Prices by as Much as 20%
The price of the processor at the center of a personal computer rarely moves in a single step. Last week it moved in three, in the same direction, at the…
Applied Materials Plans a $5 Billion Lab to Halve Chip Development Time
The most expensive equipment inside a semiconductor factory is the machinery that makes the chips. Applied Materials wants to build a facility whose product is neither. The company, the largest…
SK Hynix Offers a U.S. Plant in Return for China Equipment Approval
SK Hynix has proposed building a new factory in the United States in exchange for Washington’s approval to ship American chipmaking equipment to its plant in China, according to a…
Nvidia Would Halt Chip Supply to Unsafe AI Developers, Huang Says
Nvidia would consider cutting off a customer that used its chips to build artificial intelligence with safety risks, the company’s chief executive said, a threat aimed at a customer base…
SpaceX Seeks Approval for 456 Starship Launches a Year
SpaceX has asked regulators to let it launch Starship up to 456 times a year from its site in south Texas, an increase of more than eighteenfold over the 25…
SpaceX Throttled Ukrainian Military Terminals, Kyiv Says
Ukraine’s armed forces learned about a limit on their satellite links the way an ordinary subscriber would: after something that had been working stopped working. Serhii Beskrestnov, a defense technology…
Google Widens Access to Gemini 4 Argon and Pulls the Pro Tier Up Behind It
Google began pushing Gemini 4 Argon to subscribers of its AI Pro and AI Ultra plans on October 13, putting the company’s newest model in front of paying users at…
Microsoft Says Its Third Maia Chip Delivers 40% More Tokens per Megawatt
Microsoft introduced its third generation of in-house artificial intelligence chips on October 12, a processor built for inference rather than training, and attached a number to it that the cloud…
