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AI Business

Three Harvard Dropouts Just Raised $300 Million to Build the AI Chip That Rivals Keep Calling Impossible

Etched hit a $10.3 billion valuation in seven months by betting that specialised AI chips could beat general-purpose ones on speed and cost. Here is what that means for anyone who pays to run AI.

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Explained

What is an AI chip and why do GPUs matter so much?

AI chips are the specialized processors that make machine learning possible, and GPUs became the default engine because their design happens to match exactly what training AI requires.

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AI Business

AMD Is Betting Up to $5 Billion on Anthropic and Its Claude AI

The chipmaker will supply massive computing power to the maker of Claude, and in return will use Claude to help write its own software.

3 min read
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AI Business

Nvidia Is Pushing Hard to Own Every Chip Inside AI Data Centers

The company best known for graphics chips now wants to supply the brains that run AI agents too. Here is what its new Vera Rubin system actually does, and why it matters for anyone who uses AI tools at work.

3 min read
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AI Business

TSMC Pours Another $100 Billion Into Arizona as AI Chip Demand Shows No Sign of Slowing

The world's most important chipmaker is doubling down on its US bet, bringing its total Arizona commitment to $265 billion and pointing squarely at AI as the reason.

3 min read
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AI Business

Google Is Building a New AI Chip That Could Cut Power Costs Tenfold

A chip codenamed 'Frozen v2' is reportedly 6 to 10 times more efficient than Google's current hardware. If it delivers, it could meaningfully reduce what it costs to run Gemini, Google's family of AI models.

3 min read
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Gaming

SEGA and NVIDIA Mark 30 Years Together With a New Virtua Fighter and a New Chip

The two companies are reviving one of gaming's oldest 3D fighting franchises on a fresh line of AI-capable laptop chips, announced from the Tokyo arcade where it all began.

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AI Business

The only company that makes AI's most important machine just raised its sales forecast again

ASML, the Dutch firm that builds the chip-printing machines the entire AI industry depends on, now expects up to 45 billion euros in sales this year, a forecast it has already lifted twice.

3 min read
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AI Business

The Electricity Problem at the Heart of Modern AI

Every AI data centre runs on a fixed power budget. The company that squeezes the most useful work out of each watt wins. Here is what that means in plain English.

3 min read
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Policy

A 'Very Small' Number of Nvidia's H200 AI Chips Have Made It to China, Says U.S. Official

Shipments have restarted, but only in tiny quantities. What that means for Nvidia, China, and the tech cold war playing out between them.

3 min read
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AI Business

SK Hynix just pulled off the biggest US stock debut by a foreign company, ever

The South Korean memory chip maker raised $26.5 billion on the Nasdaq, riding demand for the chips that make AI work. Here is what that means, and why Washington is already calling.

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