A research team has demonstrated a new method for growing cubic indium gallium nitride, a material that could enable efficient red micro-LEDs. This challenges the dominance of aluminium indium gallium phosphide in red emitters, especially for tiny displays. The breakthrough hinges on a growth techni
Investment firm Valor Equity Partners has raised $5.4 billion specifically to purchase Nvidia GB200 GPUs for Elon Musk’s xAI. The deal, backed by Apollo and Nvidia itself, uses a lease structure to fund critical AI compute infrastructure. It follows xAI’s own massive $20 billion funding round announ
The first day of CES 2026 was dominated by AI hardware wars and quirky robots. While chip giants made major announcements, a musical lollipop and waddling robots stole the show’s heart.
AMD’s CES 2026 announcements were more about refinement than revolution. The Ryzen AI 400 series laptops get minor clock bumps, a new Ryzen 7 9850X3D arrives, and the company is pushing hard on ROCm software improvements for local AI.
AMD is launching a new AI chip, the MI440X, designed for compact corporate data centers. CEO Lisa Su also previewed the MI500 series for 2027, promising up to 1,000x the performance of its 2023 models. The push highlights AMD’s aggressive strategy to capture more of the lucrative AI hardware market.
Nvidia just pulled the curtain back on its next-gen Vera Rubin AI platform months ahead of schedule. The announcement at CES 2026 signals a major acceleration in the AI hardware race, with Nvidia claiming massive performance leaps.
AMD is expanding its Ryzen AI Max+ lineup with two new chips that lower the CPU specs but keep the powerful 40-core GPU. This move aims to bring high-end gaming and AI performance to more affordable laptops, potentially reshaping the mid-range market in 2026.
MediaTek is making a major strategic pivot, moving engineering resources away from smartphones to chase custom AI chips. The company is targeting a billion-dollar ASIC business by 2026, with Google’s TPU program as its first big win. But can it keep its smartphone business competitive while chasing
The Amsterdam Enterprise Chamber will hold a crucial public hearing on January 14 regarding Nexperia. This follows preliminary rulings that suspended the former CEO and transferred shares from its Chinese parent, Wingtech.
The AI boom is creating a gold rush for TSMC’s most advanced manufacturing. New reports indicate its 2nm process is already fully booked for 2026 and is projected to generate more cumulative revenue than its current 3nm and 5nm nodes by the third quarter of that year. This is despite the company imp
