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GlobalFoundries adds ARC to MIPS and tightens its grip on the RISC-V stack

GF completes ARC acquisition and folds it into MIPS.

Alibaba’s T-Head builds China’s Nvidia alternative

The Zhenwu M890 ships at scale—and a two-generation roadmap follows behind it.

FuriosaAI scales inference beyond chips

Broadcom partnership targets hyperscale AI inference clusters.

Anthropic is the supershopper for AI processors

Nvidia, SpaceX, Microsoft, Amazon, and Google are all in the game.

What is an agentic SoC

MediaTek Dimensity 9400 shifts AI from prompts to actions

Intel and Nvidia Recast AI Platforms

Partnership targets heterogeneous client and data center systems

OpenAI’s $180B chip bet hits a wall

Broadcom wants Microsoft to commit before money moves

Tenstorrent goes general-purpose in an age of AI specialization

Company says one system can do the whole inference job.

IBM’s latest AI processor is GPU-free

It does have 32 NPUs, however.

AI Vector Vision reframes computer vision

Deterministic, vector-based representation.

Taalas bets on hard‑wired models to beat GPUs at inference

Toronto start-up Taalas fixes trained LLMs directly in silicon.

Vaire Computing bets on reversible chips

Sunnyvale, CA, start-up tackles AI power problem at the physics level.