SK Hynix Ties a US NAND Plant to China Equipment Permits, Then Denies It
The offer, as described by two people familiar with the matter, was a trade: Washington lets SK Hynix ship American chipmaking equipment into its plant in Dalian, China, and the…
Two Workers Die After an Explosion at Intel’s Israeli Chip Plant
The first worker died at the scene. The second died later. A third was in intensive care at Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba, after an explosion at Intel’s Fab 28…
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…
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…
Foxconn Pushes From Compute Trays to Whole AI Racks
At the Open Compute Project Global Summit in San Jose, Hon Hai Precision Industry put its newest hardware on the floor: a liquid-cooled cabinet holding 72 Nvidia Rubin graphics processors…
Tesla’s Nine-Year Roadster Bet Takes a Stage in Texas
The field outside Waco, Texas, will be dark and the aircraft restricted when Tesla unveils the next-generation Roadster at 8:55 p.m. Eastern time on Oct. 15, a date the company…
ASML Raises Its Outlook and Says Its Own Factories Can’t Keep Up
Christophe Fouquet runs the company that makes the machines that make advanced chips, and on Wednesday he told investors that his customers have started asking about delivery slots for 2029…
Intel Names Its Inference Card and Starts Shipping Samples
Intel gave its data-center inference accelerator a product name and a customer sampling program on October 12, a small step in a long campaign to sell into a market its…
Chip Chiefs Warn That AI’s Next Shortage Is Credit
The two executives who sell deepest into the artificial intelligence build-out said on October 12 that its next constraint is neither silicon nor electricity but the willingness of other people’s…
Intel’s 14A Draws Interest From Nearly Every Large U.S. Customer
Intel needs one customer willing to commit first. According to Piper Sandler, nearly every other large U.S. buyer is already asking questions. A research note from the investment bank says…
