Dongfang Suanxin Unveils DF1000 AI Chip to Skirt US Chip Curbs
Shanghai startup Dongfang Suanxin unveiled its DF1000 AI chip on July 13, bypassing US export curbs with 3D memory stacking instead of banned high-bandwidth memory.
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Intel Commits €5 Billion to Expand Chip Plant in Ireland
Intel will invest €5 billion to expand its Leixlip campus in Ireland, adding capacity for Xeon server processors as AI data center demand strains chip supply.
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What Is Nvidia — and Why Does AI Depend on Its Chips?
Nvidia makes the graphics chips that train and run most of today's AI models. Here's what the company does and how it became AI's biggest bottleneck.
Read more →Innovative Eyewear Adds Claude AI to All Lucyd Smart Glasses
Nasdaq-listed Innovative Eyewear is rolling out free Claude AI access across its Lucyd smart eyewear lineup, letting wearers switch between Claude and ChatGPT mid-conversation.
Read more →European Defense AI Startup Helsing Raises $1.8B at $18B Valuation
German defense-AI company Helsing raised $1.8 billion in a Series E round, valuing it at $18 billion — Europe's largest-ever defense-startup funding round.
Read more →Meta Expands Louisiana AI Data Center to $50 Billion, 5 Gigawatts
Meta is expanding its Hyperion data center in Richland Parish, Louisiana, to 5 gigawatts of capacity, pushing total investment past $50 billion and funding local schools and infrastructure.
Read more →UST Cuts Chip Validation Time 50–70% With Anthropic's Claude
UST, an engineering services firm serving chipmakers and manufacturers, says integrating Anthropic's Claude into its hardware validation platform cut test cycles by up to 70%.
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What Is a Semiconductor Foundry — and Why Does AI Depend on TSMC?
A semiconductor foundry manufactures chips designed by other companies — and one company, TSMC, makes nearly every advanced AI chip in the world. Here's how the business works.
Read more →TSMC Posts Record June Revenue as AI Chip Demand Outstrips Supply
Taiwan Semiconductor reported a 68% year-over-year jump in June revenue, as AI chip orders continue to outstrip its production capacity ahead of full Q2 earnings on July 16.
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What Are EAR Country Groups — and How Do They Control AI Chip Exports?
The US sorts every country into an export-control tier that decides whether an AI chip can ship there without a license — here's how the system actually works.
Read more →US Grants UAE License-Free Access to Advanced AI Chips
The Commerce Department reclassified the UAE as a trusted export partner on July 10, letting a short list of approved companies ship AI chips and servers there without individual licenses.
Read more →SK Hynix Raises $26.5 Billion in Record Nasdaq Debut
SK Hynix, the top maker of AI memory chips, began trading on Nasdaq on July 10 in the largest-ever US listing by a foreign company, with shares jumping 13%.
Read more →What Is an AI Data Center — and Why Do They Need So Much Power?
AI data centers pack thousands of GPUs into liquid-cooled buildings that draw as much power as a small city — here's what sets them apart, and why tech firms now build power plants to run them.
Read more →Meta Breaks Ground on $13B AI Data Center in Alberta, Canada
Meta has begun construction on a 1-gigawatt, AI-optimized data center in Alberta — its first in Canada and 33rd globally, backed by a CAD $13 billion investment.
Read more →Apple Sues OpenAI Over Alleged Trade Secret Theft
Apple has sued OpenAI in federal court, accusing two former Apple engineers of stealing confidential hardware secrets to help build OpenAI's in-development AI device.
Read more →Meta to Start Producing In-House AI Chip 'Iris' in September
Meta plans to begin manufacturing its in-house "Iris" AI chip in September, aiming to double its data center computing capacity to 14 gigawatts by 2027, an internal memo reviewed by Reuters shows.
Read more →AI Chip Maker SambaNova Raises $1B, Hits $11B Valuation
SambaNova closed the first tranche of a $1 billion Series F round led by General Atlantic, and said JPMorganChase will deploy its chips for on-premises AI inference.
Read more →What Are AI Smart Glasses — and How Do They Actually Work?
AI smart glasses pack a microphone, speaker and sometimes a camera or tiny display into ordinary-looking eyewear. Here's what's actually inside them and how the two competing designs differ.
Read more →Camera-Free Smart Glasses Maker Even Realities Hits $1B Valuation
Shenzhen startup Even Realities raised $150 million led by Tencent and Meituan, valuing the camera-free smart glasses maker at $1 billion.
Read more →What Is Sovereign AI — and Why Are Countries Building Their Own?
Sovereign AI means a country can run its AI on infrastructure it controls, instead of depending on a foreign provider that could cut access. Here's what that takes.
Read more →What Is Physical AI — and How Does It Differ From a Chatbot?
Physical AI is artificial intelligence built to sense, reason about, and act in the real world — powering robots, self-driving cars, and smart sensors, not just chat.
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