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Qualcomm wants to buy Tenstorrent for up to $10 billion to take on Nvidia
Qualcomm is in early talks to acquire AI chip startup Tenstorrent for $8 to $10 billion. Jim Keller's RISC-V bet could be the most credible challenge to Nvidia yet.
HardwareRISC-V vs ARM vs x86: the chip architecture war nobody told you about
RISC-V vs ARM vs x86 explained in plain English. We break down who owns each chip architecture, what it costs, and where each one wins in 2026.
HardwareOpenAI built its own AI chip and called it Jalapeno
OpenAI and Broadcom unveiled Jalapeno, OpenAI's first custom AI chip. Prototypes by end of 2026, full scale by 2028. Here is why it matters.
HardwareIBM crams 100 billion transistors onto one chip
IBM's NanoStack architecture puts 100 billion transistors on a single chip with 50% more performance and 70% less energy, via vertical stacking.
HardwareIntel's 18A-P node hits a milestone, with Apple and Google reportedly circling
The advanced process enters risk production, and a tie-up with Taiwan's UMC takes aim at TSMC's foundry lead.
HardwareMicrosoft's 2026 Surface line is its best in years, and its most expensive
OLED screens, new haptics and a two-stage chip rollout. The catch is a price hike that pushes Surface above equivalent Macs.
HardwareNvidia just walked into the PC chip market, and Intel should be worried
The RTX Spark Superchip puts a 20-core CPU and a Blackwell GPU on one piece of silicon. It lands in laptops this autumn.
HardwareOpenAI built its own chip to stop paying Nvidia so much
OpenAI revealed Jalapeno, its first custom inference processor built with Broadcom, as it signs giant compute deals and tries to cut the cost of running its models.
HardwareChina is spending $295 billion on AI infrastructure. Here is what that actually means.
China's National Development and Reform Commission is finalising a five-year, $295 billion plan to build a nationwide AI data centre network. Nvidia and AMD are excluded. Here is what it means.
HardwareThe US Government Thinks ASML's Most Advanced Chip Tool Is Inside China
The US government has raised the alarm that one of ASML's most powerful extreme ultraviolet lithography machines, the kind that's essential for manufacturing th
HardwareQuantum computers just got dramatically more reliable, and almost nobody noticed
Microsoft reports a 1,000x reliability jump in its Majorana qubits, while error correction across the industry moves from lab trick to engineering reality.
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