Tag: AI Chips
Huawei pulls Ascend 960DT launch forward to early 2027
Huawei has moved its next-generation Ascend AI chip up by two quarters as it tries to close the…
Nvidia’s Vera Rubin racks triple throughput in first MLPerf run
Nvidia's first MLPerf Inference submission for its Vera Rubin NVL72 rack reports up to 3.7x the throughput of…
Anthropic’s record listing draws Nvidia as a $10B anchor backer
Nvidia is in talks to take up to $10B of shares in Anthropic's coming listing, a deal that…
Chipmaker d-Matrix books a rack slot in NVIDIA’s AI factory plan
Raptor inference XPUs will hook into MGX racks through NVLink Fusion, splitting inference work between GPUs and custom…
Nvidia puts $3.5B into MediaTek as custom chip rush grows
Nvidia invests $3.5B in MediaTek as hyperscalers race to build their own chips.
NVIDIA rewires high-bandwidth memory to free chip space for AI
NVIDIA moves the memory controller into the HBM stack to free chip space for AI compute.
Nvidia reaches for Hugging Face in a $12.9B takeover
Nvidia has agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, though a signed agreement is not yet in…
Jane Street leads Etched’s $700M round after testing its silicon
Jane Street led Etched's $700M Series D after testing its inference chips, pushing the startup's valuation to $21B.
Groq banks $350M for a second act running Nvidia clouds
Groq raised $350M at a $3.5B valuation as it rebuilds itself as an Nvidia-powered AI cloud.
Chipmaker Intel sells $15B in shares as AI demand surges
Intel plans a stock offering to fund expansion it says AI compute demand justifies.
Toronto startup Taalas joins AMD to hard-code models in chips
AMD's Taalas deal adds inference chips whose final layers are locked to a single model.
Anthropic hires hardware engineers to design custom Claude chips
Anthropic confirms it is hiring engineers to co-design custom chips for Claude while keeping AWS, Google, Nvidia and…