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Semiconductors
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Samsung Electronics has secured a deal worth more than $200 billion to supply memory and foundry chips to Broadcom over the next five years, in what stands as one of the largest semiconductor supply agreements in the industry's history…
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Semiconductors
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Korea has locked down nearly a trillion dollars in chip partnerships during President Lee Jae-myung's visit to San Francisco, signing agreements worth a combined $950 billion with Nvidia, Broadcom, and other global tech firms. The deals…
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AMD finally pulled the wraps off its first Zen 6 server chip this week at the AAI 2026 conference, and the numbers are eye-popping. The Epyc 9996 — codenamed "Venice" — packs 256 cores and 512 threads on a single socket, built on TSMC's N2…
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Intel delivered its fastest revenue growth in nearly 15 years Thursday, posting $16.1 billion in second-quarter sales and adjusted earnings per share of 42 cents — double the 21 cents analysts had penciled in. The chipmaker's data center…
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AMD kicked off its annual Advancing AI conference in San Francisco on Wednesday with a slate of product launches that stretch from individual embedded processors up to gigawatt-scale AI clusters. The company revealed its Helios rackscale…
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As AI models balloon past the trillions of parameters, the memory chips feeding them are running into a wall — and it's a hot one. Today's high-bandwidth memory (HBM) stacks DRAM dies twelve layers high, packing more bits and bandwidth…
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TSMC, the world's biggest contract chipmaker, plans to hike its chipmaking prices by up to 10% across the board starting in 2027, according to a Nikkei Asia report that hit the wires Wednesday. The move comes as insatiable AI demand…
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Bosch Powers Up Its First U.S. Chip Plant, Staking $2 Billion on Silicon Carbide By Tech Desk Bosch said it has started sample production of silicon carbide chips at its Roseville, California factory, the German supplier's first…
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Semiconductors
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Wall Street erased more than $1.3 trillion in semiconductor market value this month as investors began to question whether the artificial-intelligence spending boom can keep running, Reuters estimated. The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index…
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Samsung has told buyers there's no easy way out of the memory squeeze coming in 2026. Wonjin Lee, the company's president and head of global marketing, said in a Bloomberg interview in early January that chip shortages will push prices…
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AMSTERDAM, July 15 (Tech Desk) — ASML told investors on Wednesday it now expects 2026 revenue of €43 billion to €45 billion, a jump from the €36–40 billion range it set earlier this year. The Dutch company, the only maker of the…
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Semiconductors
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company delivered the most profitable quarter in its history this week, reporting second-quarter 2026 revenue of $40.2 billion, a 36% jump from a year earlier, and lifting its full-year growth target…