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The hope of affordable DDR5 memory before 2030 effectively died on June 24, when Micron reported its fiscal third-quarter results and revealed a new commercial model that structurally breaks the semiconductor industry’s traditional boom-bust cycle. Micron posted revenue of US$41.5 billion for the quarter, up 346 percent from a year earlier, with gross margin hitting […]

Amazon has pledged US$13 billion in additional investment to expand its AI and cloud infrastructure in India through 2030, bringing its total committed investment in the country to US$48 billion across three major commitments since 2023. The announcement came after Amazon CEO Andy Jassy met India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi. The funds […]

Meta is reimagining its Creator Studio tool as a standalone AI companion app designed to help creators grow their audiences on Facebook. The app, currently being tested with select creators, integrates Facebook’s recently launched AI creator assistant, which provides personalised recommendations based on content style, performance data, audience engagement, and goals. Creators can ask conversational […]

IBM has demonstrated a prototype chip that packs approximately 100 billion transistors onto an area the size of a human fingernail, roughly double the density of its previous state-of-the-art announced in 2021. The advance could extend Moore’s Law for another 10 to 15 years, according to industry analysts. The chip uses a complementary field-effect transistor […]

The semiconductor industry is undergoing a fundamental shift from monolithic chip designs to heterogeneous systems built from chiplets, pre-designed blocks assembled into sophisticated system-in-packages. But existing single-die design tools are insufficient for the task, according to a detailed methodology published by Siemens EDA. “Heterogeneous chiplet technology has fundamentally transformed semiconductor design, enabling the efficient creation […]

OpenAI and Broadcom have unveiled Jalapeño, the company’s first custom-designed inference processor, a chip built from the ground up for large language model workloads, marking a strategic shift into hardware for the AI company. “Jalapeño was designed from scratch around its deep understanding of LLM fundamentals, informed by its roadmap of models, kernels, serving systems, […]

As soon as August, a silver, helium-filled airship roughly 61 metres (200 feet) long will cross the Pacific to Japan, where it will park in the stratosphere and beam 5G connectivity directly to devices below. The craft is built by Sceye, a New Mexico-based company developing what is known as a high-altitude platform station (HAPS), […]

International law enforcement authorities, working with private technology companies, have disrupted a cybercrime “assembly line” that enabled criminals to steal millions of login credentials and collect more than US$47 million through ransomware and fraud. The operation, part of the ongoing Operation Endgame, targeted two widely used malware-as-a-service platforms, Amadey and StealC, in a coordinated takedown […]

A new US$500 million nonprofit called Intercept is taking aim at one of medicine’s most neglected problems: the common cold. Backed by Stripe, Anthropic, the OpenAI Foundation, Bill Gates, Flu Lab, and Jane Street Capital traders, the initiative aims to prevent and eventually eliminate all respiratory viruses. “On average, people spend 5 percent of their […]

Most agentic AI pilot failures are not AI failures, they are architectural failures. That is the central argument behind a new framework by John Taschek, executive vice president and chief market strategy officer at Salesforce, who has laid out 12 rules for deploying AI agents in enterprise environments. Inspired by Edgar Codd’s 12 rules for […]