TMtechmemeAyar Labs, which is developing a way to link AI chips directly with optical connections, raised $150M, an extension of its $500M Series E in March 2026 (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)industry2 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeTencent-backed AI chipmaker Enflame's shares surged 188% in their Shanghai debut, giving Enflame a market cap of $26.3B, after raising ~$910M in an IPO (Ann Cao/South China Morning Post)industry3 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSources: Microsoft plans to expand its data center capacity from 12 GW today to 38+ GW by 2032, with about a third of the 38 GW centered on AI-specific chips (Bloomberg)industry3 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemePositron, which is designing an AI processor called Asimov with a "memory-first architecture" and up to 2.3TB of memory, raised $875M at a $5B valuation (Robbie Whelan/Wall Street Journal)industry3 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSources: Chinese AI chipmakers Huawei, Cambricon, MetaX, and Iluvatar CoreX have raised prices for current and next-gen chips by 20%-50% due to rising HBM costs (Reuters)industry4 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeCelero, which is developing a chip to enable long-distance connections between AI data centers, raised $275M at a $3B+ valuation (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)industry5 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeHow Inspur, a blacklisted China-owned company, is bypassing US export restrictions on advanced AI chips via a network of new subsidiaries and partners (New York Times)industry7 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeQ&A with Kai-Fu Lee on China's open-model advantage, AI's impact on jobs, US export restrictions on chips, Chinese AI's role in developing countries, and more (Mishal Husain/Bloomberg)industry9 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSources: US negotiators used the promise of access to Nvidia's chips for an Armenian data center to broker a preliminary Armenia-Azerbaijan peace deal last year (Robbie Whelan/Wall Street Journal)industry9 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSources: Abu Dhabi-based AI company G42 is exploring selling a majority stake to American companies to maintain access to advanced AI chips beyond April 2027 (Bloomberg)industry9 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeMicrosoft unveils Project Zenith, a "distraction-free Windows experience" for developers to run 30B+ parameter models locally on devices with 64GB+ of memory (Tom Warren/The Verge)industry9 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeGimlet Labs, which helps customers divide AI tasks across multiple chip types, raised $300M led by a16z at a $3B valuation, six months after an $80M Series A (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)industry10 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSources: neocloud Fluidstack closed a $1.5B round led by Jane Street at an $18B+ valuation; in July, the company announced a $750M round at a $7.5B valuation (Iain Martin/Forbes)industry10 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeAnker unveils the Eufy MindBase, a local AI hub for its cameras that runs an on-device, Anker-developed LLM, with a dedicated AI chip and up to 48TB of storage (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)industry10 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeA look at Kioxia's expansion in Japan's Kitakami, which helped stall the city's demographic decline and is a test of Japan's $640B AI and chips investment plan (Bloomberg)industry11 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeWafer, which makes AI agents that optimize open-source models for a business's workload, raised a $40M Series A, a source says at a $200M+ valuation (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)industry12 days ago▲ 24Read story→
rssNvidia’s $3.5B MediaTek bet reveals its plan for tackling Big Tech’s AI chip buildouttechcrunchindustryAI13 days ago▲ 44Read story→
TMtechmemeNvidia plans to invest $3.5B into MediaTek through convertible bonds; MediaTek forecasts AI chip revenue of about $2B this year (Bloomberg)industry13 days ago▲ 24Read story→