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Monday 2 November 2026
FuriosaAI raises US$620 million, quadruples valuation to challenge Nvidia
South Korean AI chip startup FuriosaAI has raised US$620 million in its latest funding round, quadrupling its valuation from the previous round to US$2.9 billion and strengthening...
Monday 2 November 2026
Meta reportedly advances humanoid robot development with Chinese partner Fourier
Meta is accelerating its humanoid robotics ambitions through a partnership with Chinese robotics company Fourier, having developed an initial prototype and begun work on a second version...
Monday 2 November 2026
Canada invests CAD1.6 billion in Cohere to build AI independence
The Canadian government plans to invest up to CAD1.6 billion (about US$1.14 billion) in domestic AI startup Cohere, becoming a major investor in the company's latest funding round...
Friday 30 October 2026
From living neurons to enterprise AI: TBC pursues faster video generation with AWS
The Biological Computing Co. (TBC), a San Francisco startup that grows living neurons in its lab to find ways to make AI models more efficient, launched its first publicly available...
Friday 30 October 2026
Nvidia weighs credit support for Nscale as data center, IPO face pressure
Nvidia is reportedly evaluating billions of dollars in credit support for UK neocloud provider Nscale to help cover power and construction costs for a data center in West Virginia...
Thursday 29 October 2026
Onsemi reportedly in talks to buy AI power-chip startup Ferric for close to US$1 billion
Onsemi has been discussing an acquisition of Ferric, a New York-based maker of integrated voltage regulators for AI chips, for close to US$1 billion, The Information reported...
Thursday 29 October 2026
Anthropic's IPO filing highlights China AI rivalry as model distillation, chip export controls emerge as key risks
US AI startup Anthropic has formally filed for an initial public offering (IPO) with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), identifying competitive pressure from Chinese...
Wednesday 28 October 2026
Skymizer partners with Egis to develop 12nm and 6nm AI accelerators
Taiwanese startup Skymizer has formally announced a strategic partnership with Egis Technology to develop Flow (T12), a new-generation AI inference chip. Fabricated on TSMC's 12nm...
Friday 23 October 2026
Analysis: Nvidia's Vera CPU takes on Intel and AMD with a platform play
Nvidia has won a CPU supply order from AI startup Modal, challenging Intel and AMD in the server CPU market as it expands beyond GPUs into general-purpose computing. Although Modal's...
Friday 23 October 2026
DeepSeek reportedly raises US$15B as IPO plans gather pace

Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) startup DeepSeek has raised about US$15 billion in its latest private funding round, giving it substantially...

Friday 23 October 2026
LG home appliance chip volume tops 1 million; spins off startup PADO to target GPU compute leasing
LG Electronics is expanding its artificial intelligence (AI) footprint on two fronts: in-house appliance chips and GPU compute services. On one hand, the company is scaling up the...
Thursday 22 October 2026
OpenAI acquires Orchestra Bio to advance AI drug development
OpenAI has acquired biotech startup Orchestra Bio and will integrate its team and technology into its life sciences research platform, Rosalind, expanding AI applications in drug development...
Monday 19 October 2026
Solution Finders Part 2 of 2: TSMC's first CTO said no to Intel twice but still wonders what if
Chenming Hu co-invented the FinFET transistor with colleagues at the University of California, Berkeley, in the 1990s and became TSMC's first chief technology officer in 2001. Decades...
Monday 19 October 2026
Exclusive: Wooptix targets leading chipmakers with wafer metrology technology, eyes production adoption within 3-5 years
Spanish semiconductor metrology startup Wooptix, whose technology originated in astronomical observation, is accelerating efforts to enter the supply chains of leading semiconductor...
Friday 16 October 2026
Bolt Graphics seeks US$100 million to challenge Nvidia, AMD beyond AI with Zeus GPU
US chip startup Bolt Graphics is seeking approximately US$100 million at a valuation of about US$700 million to develop graphics processors targeting scientific computing and professional...