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Inside the $720 Billion Memory Factory Race Fuelling the AI Boom
South Korea's SK Hynix controls more than half the world's most sought-after AI memory chips. Now it is building the largest network of memory factories ever attempted, and every Big Tech CEO wants a seat at the table.
Battered AI Hedge Fund Situational Awareness Bets $400 Million on Chip Startup Source Foundry
Despite selling off half its assets last month, the fund founded by a former OpenAI researcher has now put a total of $500 million into a Stanford-born startup trying to make chip manufacturing faster and cheaper.
Toilets, seasoning and glass fibre: the Japanese companies quietly winning the AI boom
Three Japanese firms whose core businesses have nothing to do with computing have become unlikely stock-market stars, because their decades-old materials end up inside the chips that power AI.
The secret ingredient keeping AI running: advanced materials science
Chips and software grab the headlines, but a quieter race is under way in the labs developing the physical materials that let AI hardware exist at all.
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.
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. That is a huge jump from what it predicted just months ago.