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Nothing Launches Phone (4b) at £299 With a 5,200mAh Battery and 45-LED Glyph Bar, Debuting in London Ahead of a Wider July 17 Rollout
Nothing's Phone (4b) went on sale at its London store on July 11 at £299/€329, pairing a 5,200mAh battery (6,000mAh in India) with a 45-LED Glyph Bar; the company has not confirmed a US launch.
Oratomic Raises $300 Million Series A to Build a Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computer Needing Just 20,000 Qubits
The neutral-atom startup landed a $300 million Series A co-led by ARCH, Spark, and Khosla, months after launching with Caltech research claiming far fewer qubits are needed for useful quantum computing.
Meta to Begin Production of Its Iris AI Chip in September, Targeting 14 Gigawatts of Computing Capacity
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.
Micron Breaks Ground on ¥1.5 Trillion Hiroshima Fab Expansion as Japan Pledges Up to ¥500 Billion for AI Memory
Micron broke ground on July 4 on a ¥1.5 trillion ($9.3 billion) expansion of its Hiroshima fab to scale next-generation DRAM and HBM for AI, with Japan's METI pledging up to ¥500 billion in subsidies and equipment installation set to begin in the second half of 2028.
Infineon Opens €5 Billion Smart Power Fab in Dresden, the World's Largest for Power and Analog Chips, Three Months Ahead of Schedule
Infineon opened its €5 billion Smart Power Fab in Dresden on July 2, three months early, doubling its Dresden capacity and adding 1,000 jobs at what it calls the world's largest power-chip factory.
DriveNets Extends Its Disaggregated AI Fabric With Two Tomahawk 6 Platforms Delivering 102.4 Tb/s for Scale-Up, Scale-Out, and Scale-Across
DriveNets unveiled two Broadcom Tomahawk 6-based AI fabric platforms, the liquid-cooled 2600SL and air-cooled 2601S, each carrying 64 ports of 1.6 Tb/s for 102.4 Tb/s of capacity.
Etched Exits Stealth With Working Sohu Transformer ASIC, $800 Million Raised at a $5 Billion Valuation and Over $1 Billion in Chip Orders
Etched unveiled working A0 silicon for Sohu, its transformer-only inference ASIC, disclosing $800 million raised at a $5 billion valuation and more than $1 billion in signed customer contracts.
Microsoft Scales Hollow-Core Fiber for AI Data Centers With Corning and Heraeus After Setting a 0.091 dB/km Fiber-Loss Record
Microsoft is moving hollow-core fiber from pilot to production for Azure, partnering with Corning and Heraeus after a research team recorded the lowest optical-fiber loss ever measured, 0.091 dB/km.
AMD Ships FSR 4.1 Upscaling to Radeon RX 7000 GPUs Ahead of Schedule, Though Frame Generation Stays RDNA 4 Exclusive
AMD's Adrenalin 26.6.2 driver brings FSR 4.1 machine-learning upscaling to RDNA 3 Radeon RX 7000 cards using an INT8 model, but frame generation remains an RDNA 4 exclusive.
China's Chip-Material Makers Move on Japan's Turf as Guangyuan Commits $1 Billion to T-Glass for AI Servers
Guangyuan is spending $1 billion on T-glass and low-dielectric glass cloth, pushing a Chinese supplier into a niche long dominated by Japan's Nittobo as AI-server demand tightens supply.
Startup Besxar Flies Semiconductor 'Fabships' on Falcon 9 Boosters, Betting the Vacuum of Space Can Make Purer Chip Substrates
Washington startup Besxar is flying microwave-oven-sized 'Fabship' pods on Falcon 9 boosters, the first of 12 SpaceX flights testing whether the vacuum of space can produce purer semiconductor substrates.
Arista Unveils 7060XE7, a 1.6-Terabit Switch Family Built on Broadcom's Tomahawk 6, Targeting Rack-Scale AI Fabrics
Arista's new 7060XE7 series, powered by Broadcom's Tomahawk 6 silicon, brings 1.6T Ethernet to AI clusters, with Microsoft, Meta and Oracle backing the launch.