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China's AI accelerator supplier Biren posts 2,000% year-over-year revenue growth — US export controls benefit homegrown chips as Nvidia and AMD exit market (tomshardware.com)

2026-09-10 | by Anton Shilov | get NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card → | tags: biren technology, ai accelerators, nvidia

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The state of ABF substrates in data center silicon in 2026 — solving the supply crunch and material wall beneath every AI accelerator (tomshardware.com)

2026-09-10 | by Etiido Uko | get Semiconductor Packaging Materials Interaction and Reliability book → | tags: abf substrates, nvidia blackwell, ai accelerators

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Arm's new Mali G2-Ultra NX GPU adds neural accelerators for sub-1-watt AI graphics on mobile (techspot.com)

2026-09-10 | by Bob O'Donnell | get Raspberry Pi 5 8GB → | tags: arm, mali g2-ultra nx, gpu

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OpenAI says its next-generation processors could be made at Samsung — double-sourcing with TSMC hints at massive volume requirements [Updated] (tomshardware.com)

2026-09-09 | by Anton Shilov | get Chip War Chris Miller book → | tags: openai, samsung foundry, tsmc

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Arm Mali G2-Ultra NX GPU: desktop-class mobile gameplay with AI-native graphics (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-08 | by Deyan Lazarov | get Backbone One mobile gaming controller → | tags: arm mali, g2-ultra nx, neural accelerators

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Samsung Debuts zHBM Prototype, Stacking Memory Directly on AI Accelerators (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-07 | by Jeong Il Joo | get Samsung 990 PRO NVMe SSD → | tags: samsung electronics, zhbm, znand-o

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AMD unveils Threadripper Halo Station, an AI workstation packing 96 cores and dual liquid-cooled MI350P accelerators — 'the most powerful workstation in the world' can run trillion-parameter models, says AMD (tomshardware.com)

2026-09-04 | by Jake Roach | get AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX → | tags: amd, threadripper pro 9995wx, instinct mi350p

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Nvidia acquires Hugging Face for $12.93 billion — company gains control of major AI model distribution platform (tomshardware.com)

2026-09-03 | by Anton Shilov | get NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Super Developer Kit → | tags: nvidia, hugging face, acquisition

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All CERN accelerators now on the road to HiLumi (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-31 | get Particle Physics Brick by Brick book → | tags: cern, large hadron collider, hilumi

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Nvidia posts another record quarter, predicts explosive AI-driven growth will last through 2028 (techspot.com)

2026-08-27 | by Kishalaya Kundu | get NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 graphics card → | tags: nvidia, ai accelerators, sec

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Apple Introduces New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-25 | get Apple Studio Display 27-inch 5K → | tags: mac studio, m5 ultra, neural accelerators

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Apple unveils new Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-25 | by Chance Miller | get Apple Studio Display 27-inch → | tags: mac studio, apple, m5 max

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Apple Mac Mini M6 and Mac Studio M5 Ultra: Specs, Price, Release Date (wired.com)

2026-08-25 | by Luke Larsen | get Apple Mac Mini desktop computer → | tags: mac mini, apple silicon, m6 chip

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Marvell's stock pops 10% on AI chip deal that lets Google buy up to $12.2 billion in shares (cnbc.com)

2026-08-19 | by Samantha Subin | tags: marvell, google, ai chip

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Marvell pops 8% on AI chip deal that lets Google buy up to $12.2 billion in shares (cnbc.com)

2026-08-19 | by Samantha Subin | tags: marvell, google, ai chip

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Samsung raises advanced foundry prices by up to 15% as AI demand fills its 4nm lines, report claims — Chinese customers accepting the largest hikes (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-19 | by Luke James | tags: samsung, foundry prices, 4nm

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Marvell pops 6% on AI chip deal that lets Google buy up to $12.2 billion in shares (cnbc.com)

2026-08-19 | by Samantha Subin | tags: marvell, google, ai chip

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Build the world we want: Solutions for the next decade (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-18 | tags: entrepreneurs, technology, prizes

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China's homegrown AI accelerators to supply 90% of the country's domestic market, analysts suggest — Cambricon and Huawei expected to be the biggest winners in the shift away from Nvidia and AMD (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-18 | by Anton Shilov | tags: accelerators, ai accelerators, china

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AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-06 | by Tobias Mann | tags: accelerators, chip, model

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Google could build more AI accelerators than Nvidia sells in 2028, analyst claims — could push the company to use Intel Foundry to meet its goals (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-30 | by Anton Shilov | tags: google, tpus, nvidia

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Intel just posted its best growth in 15 years – and burned billions to make it happen (techspot.com)

2026-07-24 | by Rob Thubron | tags: intel, data center, ai accelerators

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MacBook Neo 2: Here’s everything we know so far (9to5mac.com)

2026-07-23 | by Chance Miller | tags: macbook neo, a19 pro chip, apple

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Meta to use custom AMD Instinct MI400 accelerators with 144GB of HBM4 for select workloads, report claims — could dramatically reduce cost at the expense of versatility (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-22 | by Anton Shilov | tags: meta, amd instinct, hbm4

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TSMC plans include at least four more 2nm fabs in $100 billion Arizona expansion (techspot.com)

2026-07-16 | by Rob Thubron | tags: tsmc, 2nm fabs, arizona expansion

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China’s Huawei to enter South Korean AI chip market with new Atlas SuperPods, clusters pack 8,192 Ascend 950 accelerators per deployment — reportedly challenges Nvidia dominance with 'tripled inference performance' of H20 at one-quarter the cost (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-06 | by Etiido Uko | get Huawei Atlas SuperPods → | tags: ascend, hardware, huawei

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OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-24 | by Russell Brandom | get Broadcom Custom AI Chip → | tags: openai, broadcom, jalapeño

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OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom (techcrunch.com)

2026-06-24 | by Russell Brandom | get Broadcom Custom AI Chip → | tags: openai, broadcom, jalapeño

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Quake changed gaming forever 30 years ago today — seminal title established online multiplayer culture and made 3D graphics accelerators essential PC components (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-22 | by Mark Tyson | get Quake Remastered Game → | tags: quake, id software, 3d graphics

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Qualcomm mulls taking over Jim Keller's Tenstorrent, report claims — deal for AI chipmaker would value the company at between $8 billion and $10 billion (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-16 | by Anton Shilov | get Qualcomm AI Development Kit → | tags: qualcomm, tenstorrent, jim keller