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Chips & Semiconductors

Ricursive’s Chip-Design Strategy Extends Beyond Faster Floorplanning

Ricursive's wider automation goal builds on AlphaChip's placement history, but completed chip designs require evidence beyond an intermediate layout result.

A scientist examines a luminous stack of advanced memory layers inside a semiconductor mini-fab

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Kepler Bets Existing Fabs Can Ease the AI Memory Bottleneck

Kepler Computing says new materials and three-dimensional stacking can produce denser memory without leading-edge lithography, but volume manufacturing remains unproven.

A compact semiconductor fab canister carrying wafers is mounted on a rocket in low Earth orbit

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Besxar Tests Semiconductor Manufacturing on Rocket Flights

The startup is using reusable rocket missions to test wafer processing in space, but meaningful production depends on frequent low-cost launches and reliable returns.

Cleanroom engineers use a private AI inspection system beside a semiconductor wafer

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Samsung Brings Mistral Models Inside Its Chip Fabs

Samsung plans to run Mistral models on premises for defect detection, equipment tuning and chip engineering while keeping sensitive factory records inside its infrastructure.

Custom AI processors connected through high-speed links inside rack-scale data-center infrastructure

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Nvidia Invests $3.5 Billion to Keep Custom AI Chips Inside Its Stack

Nvidia's MediaTek investment extends its data-center influence into custom silicon as major AI customers develop alternatives to standard GPUs.

A mobile application is compressed into a limited memory module while large AI data centers draw capacity in the background

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AI Memory Shortage Pushes Google to Tighten Android App Rules

Google is adding memory-use thresholds and optimization requirements for Android apps as AI data-center demand tightens hardware supply.

Millions of next-generation AI processors flow into a large cloud data center and connected robotics operation

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Amazon Adds Two Million Nvidia GPUs to Its AI Infrastructure Plans

AWS will deploy two million more Nvidia GPUs in 2027 and 2028 while extending the partnership into networking, models, robotics and edge computing.

A purpose-built inference processor glowing inside a high-density AI server system

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OpenAI Claims Jalapeño Chip Raises Inference Efficiency

OpenAI's first Jalapeño benchmarks claim higher user throughput and efficiency, but meaningful deployment is not expected until 2027.

Unbranded AI accelerator modules sit beside a dense inference computing rack

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Etched’s $21B Valuation Turns Inference Hardware Into a High-Stakes Bet

Etched has raised $700 million at a $21 billion valuation as it expands from accelerator chips into complete systems for frontier-model inference.

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