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| RISC-V’s Increasing Influence |
6/13/2025 |
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RISC-V architecture has gone from an unnoticed embedded microcontroller to a more influential part of the chip industry. "RISC-V is no longer just the tiny embedded microcontroller that you were not even aware of, that is in your product,
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| Supercomputers to need nuclear-level power |
6/13/2025 |
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Advanced Micro Devices projects that zettascale supercomputers could require as much as half a gigawatt of power by 2035, equivalent to the output of a nuclear power plant. AMD spotlighted the increasing energy demands of AI accelerators, driven by memory bandwidth and cooling needs.
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| IBM Aims for Quantum Computer in 2029 |
6/11/2025 |
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IBM is on pace to build a practical quantum computer by 2029, constructing the "Starling" system with about 200 logical qubits. The project hinges on advances in quantum error correction and real-time error identification and correction.
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| IBM Aims for Quantum Computer in 2029 |
6/11/2025 |
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BM is on pace to build a practical quantum computer by 2029, constructing the "Starling" system with about 200 logical qubits. The project hinges on advances in quantum error correction and real-time error identification and correction.
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| April semi sales up 22.7% y-o-y |
6/10/2025 |
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“Global semiconductor sales in April ticked up on a month-to-month basis for the first time in 2025, and the global market continues to notch year-to-year growth driven by increasing sales into the Americas and Asia Pacific,”
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| Qualcomm to buy Alphawave to boost data center tech |
6/10/2025 |
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Qualcomm has agreed to acquire Alphawave Semi for $2.4 billion to enhance its data center capabilities. Alphawave is known for high-speed connectivity and compute technologies, so the acquisition is seen as a complement to Qualcomm's power-efficient central processing unit and neural processing unit cores,
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| Huawei plans to mass-produce 3nm chips by 2026 |
6/6/2025 |
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On June 2, Chinese local media reported that Huawei is accelerating the development of gate-all-around (GAA) based 3nm chips in collaboration with SMIC, China’s largest foundry, based on its own design.
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| GlobalFoundries to spend $16B on chip production in US |
6/6/2025 |
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GlobalFoundries plans to invest $16 billion to expand its US chip manufacturing -- $13 billion for factory expansions in Vermont and New York and $3 billion for advanced packaging and new technologies such as silicon photonics and gallium nitride. The company is working with Apple, AMD, Qualcomm, NXP Semiconductors and others to support its production of US-made chips.
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