Chips

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.

Chips

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.

Chips

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.

Chips

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.

Chips

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.

Chips

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.

Chips

Upscale AI Unveils SkyHammer Architecture to Redefine Scale-Up AI Networking

Upscale AI officially launched last month with over $100 million in seed funding.

Chips

Semiconductor Startup Morphing Machines Raises $4.3 Mn to Build India’s First Runtime-Reconfigurable Processor

The fresh funds will be used to develop and test its first chip

Chips

Qualcomm Moves to Arm’s New Architecture Amid Intensifying AI Chip Rivalry

Arm’s shares surged 5% following the news, as Qualcomm’s move is expected to boost the chip designer’s revenues.

Chips

Cerebras CEO Confirms Plans to Re-File IPO After Withdrawal

Feldman framed the move as an opportunity to present more up-to-date results to future public market investors.

Acquisition

Meta To Acquire RISC-V Startup Rivos to Bolster In-House Chips Capabilities

Meta’s engineering VP, Yee Jiun Song, said in a LinkedIn post that Rivos brings “expertise in building full-stack AI systems”.