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AI giant Anthropic is reportedly exploring the creation of its own custom AI chips, holding talks with Samsung for a potential partnership. This move aims to reduce reliance on external suppliers and address ongoing chip shortages, following similar moves by rivals like OpenAI, Amazon, Microsoft, an
Powered by chipmakers Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, South Korea is seeing a surge in wealth, but there are questions over who gets to share in the profits When South Korea’s most high-profile divorce case returned to court last month, the lawyers were arguing not just about the breakdown of a re
Anthropic PBC is reportedly in talks with Samsung Electronics Co. to produce a custom artificial intelligence chip. The Information today cited sources as saying that the discussions are in an early stage. According to the publication, Anthropic has not yet finalized key details such as what workloa
Japanese technology conglomerate Softbank Group Corp. and its telecommunications subsidiary SoftBank Corp. are planning to launch a new neocloud business in the U.S. that will rent access to artificial intelligence chips to hyperscalers and other businesses in need of compute resources. The company
Anthropic is in talks with Samsung Electronics to explore manufacturing a custom AI chip, The Information reported on Thursday. The project remains at an early stage, and Anthropic has not yet decided what the chip would be used for, how powerful it would be, or how it would fit into a server, accor
The news comes about a week after OpenAI announced its own custom AI chip in a partnership with Broadcom.
The artificial intelligence (AI) boom is entering a new phase where the biggest challenge is no longer demand for AI chips but shortages of critical components needed to build AI infrastructure, according to a Nomura Report, which said supply constraints across the hardware ecosystem are likely to i
Oxmiq Labs has closed a $35m Series A to scale OxCore, a licensable GPU architecture the startup says lets chipmakers build custom AI silicon without running a full, multi-year design programme of their own. The round brings the company’s total capital raised to $60m since its founding by veteran ch
AI datacentres, memory scarcity and factory capacity are costing consumers –and console makers • Don’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here It was once a truth universally acknowledged that an ageing console in possession of good revenue must be in line for a price reduction. Th
Etched Inc., a developer of artificial intelligence inference chips, launched today with $800 million in funding. The startup raised the capital over multiple rounds. The most recent investment, which closed in December, valued Etched at $5 billion. It included the participation of VentureTech Allia
Nvidia AI chip competitor Etched says it has already booked $1 billion under contract for the inference systems powered by its chip.
Chinese tech giant Meituan has unveiled LongCat-2.0, a new AI model comparable to Google's Gemini 3.1 pro. This marks a significant achievement as it's reportedly the first trillion-parameter model trained entirely on domestically developed computer chips. This development is a crucial step for Chin
It's not against the law in Taiwan to export high-end chips to China. But it sounds like Taiwan will now enforce U.S. law.
The plan, anchored by Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, marks Lee's boldest push yet to align South Korea's AI and chip ambitions with his pledge to narrow domestic regional disparities and revive economies beyond the Seoul metropolitan area.
Value of some chip manufacturers have tripled, or more, driving Asia Pacific stock markets sharply higher Shares in chipmakers have surged in the first half of this year as investors piled into companies that make the hardware underpinning the AI boom, according to analysis. Investors have driven up
Jensen Huang, the CEO of computer chip giant Nvidia, was mobbed by onlookers as he hit the streets for the "zhajiangmian" noodles while visiting Beijing during U.S. President Donald Trump's May summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. But his celebrity status has not translated into success in selling
Investors have been asked to buy chips with a value three to seven times the worth of their planned subscription in Kunlunxin's initial public offering shares, the report said.
The surging cost of memory chips has translated into a bonanza for companies such as Micron Technologies Inc., but for almost everyone else there’s going to be a steep price to pay, with both Apple Inc. and Microsoft Corp. raising the price of some of their most popular products today. First came Ap
Xbox announced new price increases for the Xbox Series X and S and sunsetting of the 2TB version.
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