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Sony and TSMC Are Reported to Be Spending ¥1 Trillion on Sensors. The Reason Is Robots.
A reported ¥1 trillion joint venture in Kumamoto, 60% Sony and 40% TSMC, producing next-generation image sensors from 20...
Samsung's Chip Division Made a Record Profit. Its Phone Division Lost Money for the First Time. Same Quarter, Same Cause
The memory business set an all-time high while the handset division posted an operating loss. Both results come from the...
RAM Went From $2.80 a Gigabyte to $12. Google's Next Phone Costs More and Carries Less of It
Google has confirmed price rises across the Pixel range, blaming memory costs. Leaked specifications point the other way...
Beijing Weighs Letting Its AI Champions Buy the H200 — a Chip It Spent a Year Keeping Out
China is reportedly weighing limited H200 purchases for Alibaba, ByteDance and DeepSeek — a partial reversal of its own...
Qualcomm-Tenstorrent: A Reported $8–10B Deal That Jim Keller Reportedly Denied
The Information reported in June 2026 that Qualcomm was in talks to buy Jim Keller's Tenstorrent at an $8-10 billion val...
China's Biren Raises ~$900M for AI Chips — a Sanctioned Challenger Betting Big Against Nvidia at Home
Shanghai Biren Technology is raising HK$7 billion (about US$892.5 million, roughly $900 million) through a placement of...
Honeywell Spin-off Solstice to Buy Element Solutions for $14.5B, Betting on the Materials Layer of the AI Boom
Solstice Advanced Materials, the specialty-chemicals business spun off from Honeywell in October 2025, has agreed to acq...
Singapore Bets on Being AI's Neutral Ground — Just as US Chip Rules Put the Middle Under Scrutiny
As Singapore AI Week and SuperAI 2026 open with a pitch to be 'neutral ground' for a fracturing AI industry, fresh US ch...
China Certifies Nine Domestic AI Chips for State Procurement Under Anke Framework Expansion
Nine AI chips from seven Chinese vendors were reported on 27 May 2026 to have cleared Anke certification, the first AI a...
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