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22 articles covering "AI-chips"
Anthropic discussed buying AI chip startup MatX for roughly $7 billion, then walked away; the two sides are now said to be exploring a supply partnership instead.
NVIDIA's Groq-derived Groq 3 LPX inference accelerator is now shipping, promising ultrafast token generation for agentic coding workloads, with Nebius first to deploy it.
UK inference-chip startup Fractile is in talks to raise about $600M at a $6.5B pre-money valuation, driven by an initial $250M chip deal with Anthropic.
AMD is buying Toronto-based Taalas, whose chips etch model weights directly into silicon instead of storing them in memory, to strengthen its AI inference lineup.
Meta plans to start manufacturing its in-house Iris AI chip in September, aiming to double computing capacity to 14 gigawatts in 2027, an internal memo reviewed by Reuters shows.
Meituan released LongCat-2.0, a 1.6T-parameter MoE model under an MIT license, claiming it is the first trillion-parameter model trained and served entirely on domestic ASICs.
At its June 24 Investor Day, Qualcomm detailed a multi-generation data center chip line built for agentic AI inference, anchored by the Dragonfly C1000 CPU and AI300 accelerator, and named Meta as a server-CPU customer.
Reports say Qualcomm is examining a full acquisition of Tenstorrent, the RISC-V AI accelerator startup led by Jim Keller, at a valuation between $8 billion and $10 billion.
OpenAI's first custom silicon, the Broadcom-built Jalapeño inference accelerator, went from design to tape-out in nine months and targets deployment by the end of 2026.
The startup says its 3nm Napier inference chip turns matrix multipliers into adders, with commercial sales of a 72-chip system slated for the second half of 2027.
d-Matrix says its Corsair inference accelerator is in full production, pairing on-chip SRAM with GPUs to cut AI response times by more than 10x.
BIS clarified on May 31 that advanced-computing export licenses are required for any entity whose ultimate parent is headquartered in Country Group D:5 or Macau, even when located outside.