TSMC Posts Record $39.6 Billion Q2 Revenue, Beating Guidance as AI Chip Demand Stays Tight
TSMC posted record $39.6B Q2 2026 revenue, beating guidance, with June sales surging 67.9% YoY and the chipmaker sold out of N3 capacity for AI customers.
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Apple Sues OpenAI for Trade Secret Theft in Battle Over Next-Gen AI Hardware
Apple sues OpenAI in Northern District of California alleging trade secret theft. Names Tang Yew Tan + Chang Liu. OpenAI’s $6.5B io Products deal at center.
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Meta Iris AI Chip Enters Production in September to Power 14 GW Compute Target by 2027
Meta will start manufacturing its Iris AI chip in September 2026 as part of a plan to double total compute capacity to 14 gigawatts by 2027.
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Galaxy Z Fold 8 Starts at $1,899 as Memory Shortage Pushes Samsung Pricing Higher
Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold 8 will start at $1,899 with the Ultra at $2,099, leaked ahead of the July 22 Galaxy Unpacked event in London. Memory shortages are drivi
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Korea’s POSTECH Demonstrates 4× Denser HBM Stacking, Cracking the AI Memory Bottleneck
Researchers at South Korea’s Pohang University of Science and Technology have demonstrated a new chip-stacking technique that produces memory densities four times higher than the 12-high HBM stacks currently in volume production at Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix. The breakthrough, published in the journal Nature Electronics on July 9 and developed in partnership with the
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SK Hynix’s $26.5 Billion Nasdaq Debut Marks Largest Foreign Listing in US History
SK Hynix closed its first day of trading on the Nasdaq with a roughly 13 percent gain, capping the largest share sale ever conducted by a foreign company on a U.S. exchange and cementing the South Korean chipmaker’s position at the centre of the global artificial intelligence hardware supply chain. The Korean memory giant raised
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Samsung Confirms July 22 Galaxy Unpacked With Three Foldables, Watch 9, and Possible Android XR Glasses
Samsung confirms July 22 Galaxy Unpacked 2026 with three foldables (Z Fold 8, Z Fold 8 Ultra, Z Flip 8), Galaxy Watch 9, and possibly Android XR glasses.
SK Hynix Prices $26.5B Nasdaq Listing at a Rare Premium to Korea
South Korean memory chipmaker SK Hynix has priced its blockbuster Nasdaq American Depositary Receipt offering at $149 per share, raising approximately $26.5 billion in what is now the largest first-time U.S. stock sale by a foreign company and the third-largest listing in global market history. The pricing, completed on Friday in Seoul, was set at
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Microsoft Confirms Windows 11 Bug That Silently Eats 500GB of Storage, Ships Out-of-Band Fix
Microsoft confirms a Windows 11 bug in CapabilityAccessManager.db-wal that can consume 500GB+ of storage. Fix ships in optional update KB5095093.
Apple Pledges $30 Billion to Broadcom for Largest US Chipmaking Commitment Yet
Apple signs a $30B+ multi-year deal with Broadcom for US-made wireless chips, including a $1.5B Fort Collins Colorado facility expansion producing 15B+ chips.
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