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SiMa.ai Launches Modalix PCIe Card to Power Edge AI and LLMs

The card enables full AI workloads to run on its onboard MLSoC architecture, reducing reliance on host CPUs and improving throughput.

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Meta Unveils New RISC-V MTIA Chips to Power AI Inference

The company revealed plans to release four MTIA generations within two years, a pace that reflects the rapid evolution of AI systems and the computing infrastructure needed to support them.

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Meta Platforms Strikes Multibillion-Dollar Deal to Rent Google TPUs

In October, The Left Shift published an exclusive report on Meta's talks with Google about a potential multi-million-dollar deal for Google's TPUs.

Funding

SambaNova Systems Unveils Fastest Chip for Agentic AI, Secures $350 Mn, Partners with Intel

SambaNova claims this enables enterprises to run larger models with higher responsiveness and lower operational costs.

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SambaNova in Talks to Raise Over $350 Mn as AI Chip Demand Surges

The valuation for the round has not been disclosed.

Funding

Positron AI Becomes Unicorn With $230 Mn Raise to Power the Next Wave of Energy-Efficient AI Inference

The company said the funding will be used to expand its engineering and operations teams, scale manufacturing, and bring its inference-focused hardware and software stack to a broader set of enterprise customers.

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Microsoft Unveils New AI Inference Accelerator Maia 200 to Boost Cloud AI Performance

Microsoft claims the accelerator offers up to 30 percent better performance per dollar than its current hardware.

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U.S. Charges Four in Scheme to Illegally Export NVIDIA GPUs to China

They allegedly sent 400 NVIDIA A100 GPUs to China via transshipment hubs in Malaysia and Thailand.

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Huawei Aims to Double GPU Efficiency with New AI Infrastructure Push

The technology, expected to be unveiled at a forthcoming AI industry conference, could raise chip utilisation rates to around 70 percent, up from the current 30–40 percent.

Big Tech

[Exclusive] Meta in Discussions to Tap Google Cloud’s TPUs Amid Billion-Dollar AI Push

The TPUs are expected to be used exclusively by Meta’s newly formed Super Intelligence team.

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Qualcomm Unveils AI200 & AI250 Chips to Redefine Rack-Scale AI Inference

The AI200 will be available commercially in 2026, with the AI250 following in 2027.

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Anthropic to Expand Google Cloud Partnership With Massive TPU Investment Worth Tens of Billions

So far, Google has invested roughly $3 billion in Anthropic, comprising $2 billion in 2023 and an additional $1 billion earlier this year.