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Local opposition, not ROI, will determine AI’s build-out pace

Legislation won’t stop it.

SemiFive NPU plus SoC design

SemiFive is a custom AI ASIC platform house.

Allen Wu’s open hardware playbook

Interview with Allen Wu, founder and chairman, CoreLab Technology.

Alibaba’s RISC-V CPU runs AI natively

Using vector engine rather than NPU.

Arm stops hinting and starts shipping

Launches first production silicon CPU for AI data centers.

MIPS wants to build for autonomous systems, not retrofit for it

A broad portfolio and a fab if needed.

Supply, the growth limiter, not circular investment

Supply chain management is as important today as design.

Nvidia leads and shapes the AI industry

No corner of the market is left untouched.

Google TPU roadmap & custom silicon scaling

Standing up to its main supplier.

Meta’s AI chips epitomize hybrid hyperscalers

MTIA targets inference at scale agnostically.

AI takes over cryptocurrency transaction monitoring

Another example of AI stealing jobs.

TI integrates TinyEngine NPU across MCU portfolio

Mixed-signal microcontrollers with TinyEngine NPU.