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2026-07-09
www.builtinaustin.com
2026-07-09
Built In Austin
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Rose Velazquez
Summary:
Austin, commonly known as Silicon Hills, has become a global center for hardware and software development. Enterprise giants including Nvidia and AMD anchor the region’s semiconductor industry footprint, enabling advancements in everything from AI to automotive innovation.
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Austin, commonly known as Silicon Hills, has become a global cent
2026-07-08
www.techeblog.com
2026-07-08
TechEBlog -
2026-07-07
www.tomshardware.com
2026-07-07
Tom's Hardware
2026-07-07
digitimes.com
2026-07-07
Huawei's next-generation flagship Mate 90 smartphone series has reportedly entered the chip packaging and testing stage, according to sources within China's supply chain. The lineup is expected to launch in September 2026 and will be the first to feature Huawei's new Kirin 2026 flagship processor, which is based on the company's Tau Scaling (τ) concept. The device is expected to be one of Huawei's
2026-07-06
news.google.com
2026-07-06
Startup Fortune
2026-07-06
digitimes.com
2026-07-06
Anthropic's reported move into in-house chip development could matter well beyond Silicon Valley if it helps lower the cost of running AI services worldwide. By prioritizing cheaper inference rather than elite performance, the startup may be signaling a more pragmatic path that could influence how global AI systems are built and priced.
2026-07-06
digitimes.com
2026-07-06
Zhonghao Xinying (Hangzhou) Technology has launched its new self-developed high-performance TPU AI processor, Xuyu, alongside Taize 2.0, a software-hardware integrated AI computing platform built around the chip.
2026-07-04
tomshardware.com
2026-07-04
Jowi Morales
Sony successfully built a PlayStation 1 console that fit inside a controller but had to cancel the project after game studios were unhappy with the royalties they would make from the project.
2026-07-03
digitimes.com
2026-07-03
Kioxia has begun sample shipments of 1Tb triple-level-cell memory devices built with its 10th-generation BiCS FLASH 3D flash memory technology. The move underscores the race to supply higher-capacity, lower-power storage for AI systems, data centers, and enterprise customers worldwide as demand for advanced memory continues to rise.
2026-07-02
digitimes.com
2026-07-02
China's display makers, led by BOE Technology (BOE), are pushing deeper into semiconductors, with BOE advancing glass substrates, and a 12-inch wafer fab reportedly slated to begin mass production in the second half of 2026. Industry analysts say China is extending display technologies built up with strong government backing into semiconductors as the US tightens restrictions, adding pressure on S
2026-07-02
eetimes.com
2026-07-02
Oğuz Ergin
Turkey has built a strong chip design base, but without domestic manufacturing, its semiconductor sovereignty remains on loan.
2026-07-01
fortune.com
2026-07-01
Fortune
Nvidia may be worth $4.8 trillion, but its employees still have to pay up at the company cafeteria.
The chipmaker fueling the AI boom, led by CEO Jensen Huang, is the most valuable company in the world by market cap, towering above other tech giants like Google, Apple, and Amazon. But that doesn’t mean the company is giving away lunch for free.
Gergely Orosz, a software engineer and author of th
2026-06-30
digitimes.com
2026-06-30
For more than a decade, Apple built one of the industry's most profitable business models by using its purchasing power to drive down memory and component costs before turning hardware upgrades into high-margin revenue. The AI-driven boom in HBM and DRAM is now challenging that strategy.
2026-06-29
tomshardware.com
2026-06-29
Kunal Khullar
Steamroller is the first commercially available prebuilt gaming PC running SteamOS, pairing standard desktop components with future upgradeability.
2026-06-29
digitimes.com
2026-06-29
China is accelerating its push into fourth-generation semiconductors, with the country's first fully integrated industrial project for ultra-wide-bandgap semiconductor materials set to be built in Zhengzhou. The project aims to strengthen domestic capabilities in diamond-based semiconductor materials for AI chips, advanced communications and electric vehicles, while expanding China's presence beyo
2026-06-28
tomshardware.com
2026-06-28
Etiido Uko
Loongson has announced the 3C3000, a 16-core LoongArch server CPU with DDR4 ECC, 32 PCIe lanes, 40W typical power, and performance claimed to match the earlier 3C5000.
2026-06-27
digitimes.com
2026-06-27
Apple is reportedly considering adopting 1.4nm process technology for its flagship smartphone SoCs as early as 2028, implying that flagship chips built on the 2nm generation could have a lifecycle of only about two years.
2026-06-26
digitimes.com
2026-06-26
On June 25, IBM unveiled what it calls the world's first sub-1nm chip technology: a 0.7nm — or 7 angstrom — transistor architecture built on an entirely new 3D platform called Nanostack. The announcement, timed to the VLSI 2026 symposium, marks the first time logic technology has extended below the 1nm node and, IBM says, opens a roadmap of at least a decade of further semiconductor scaling.
2026-06-26
digitimes.com
2026-06-26
SK Siltron is preparing to bring a new silicon wafer manufacturing facility online in South Korea next month. The expansion comes as AI data center investment helps lift wafer shipments, while pricing remains under pressure as capacity added during the last expansion cycle continues to weigh on the market.
2026-06-26
digitimes.com
2026-06-26
Academia Sinica has built a 20-qubit quantum chip from scratch, and the team now says the next phase is less about lab breakthroughs and more about engineering a scalable, reproducible manufacturing system. Chii-Dong Chen, executive director of Academia Sinica's Center for Quantum Computer, says Taiwan's quantum chip effort is moving into that engineering battleground.