Chips
Qualcomm’s New Snapdragon Chip Is Built for the Agentic AI Phone
Qualcomm is launching two versions, including an “Extreme” variant aimed at higher-performance devices.
Chips
Indian Fabless Semiconductor Startup Aheesa Unveils Broadband Chip, Targets Early 2027 Commercial Launch
The chip was taped out on January 26, 2026, and achieved first-pass silicon success on August 15.
Chips
Lam Research Plans ₹10,000 Crore India Investment to Build Silicon Manufacturing Facility
The facility is expected to focus on silicon ingot production and processing for advanced semiconductor technologies and leading-edge nodes.
Indian IT
TCS Launches Custom SoC Services as Automakers Race to Build AI-Driven Vehicles
TCS said the offering brings together semiconductor engineering, VLSI design, hardware-software co-design and system-level validation capabilities.
Partnerships
d-Matrix Partners With NVIDIA to Bring Inference XPUs Into AI Factory Racks
d-Matrix will integrate Raptor with NVIDIA’s latest rack architecture, which includes Vera CPUs, NVLink switches, BlueField-4 DPUs, ConnectX-9 SuperNICs and Spectrum-X Ethernet networking.
Chips
IBM and Arm Build Dual-Architecture Chip to Bring AI Workloads to Z Mainframes
Built using a 2-nanometer process, the chip will feature 11 high-performance cores running at up to 5.7 GHz, along with an on-chip data processing unit for input/output operations.
Chips
Netrasemi Launches India-Built AI Chip for Smart Cameras and Edge Devices
The company formally began the A2000 program in 2023, although its foundational work on silicon IP and AI-focused chip architecture started several years earlier.
Funding
BigEndian Raises $6 Mn to Build India-Made AI Vision Chips
BigEndian is also strengthening partnerships in Taiwan to support manufacturing and supply chain integration.
Chips
Anthropic Considers Custom AI Chips as Compute Shortage Intensifies
The effort remains in early stages, and the company has not yet committed to building custom chips or assembling a dedicated team.
Chips
Anthropic Secures Multi-Gigawatt AI Compute Deal with Google and Broadcom
The compute resources will be used to train and deploy Anthropic’s flagship Claude AI models.
Chips
Arm Holdings Unveils AGI CPU, Marking Major Shift Into AI Chip Market
The chip will be manufactured by TSMC using its advanced 3-nanometer process.
Chips
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.