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Vera Rubin

2 articles First covered Apr 23, 2026, latest Apr 30, 2026

Close-up of integrated-circuit packages on a circuit board, illustrating the memory and SoC products driving Samsung's chip results.

Samsung Q1 profit hit 57.2 trillion won. Memory chips for Nvidia drove 93% of it.

Samsung Electronics posted record Q1 2026 results on April 30: 133.9 trillion won revenue and 57.2 trillion won operating profit. Semiconductors did 93% of the work.

Two Google TPU 8 chips, the 8t training and 8i inference variants, rendered side by side with the Axion branding

Hardware·last week

Google splits its AI chip: the TPU 8t trains, the TPU 8i serves, and Axion handles the rest

At Cloud Next 2026, Google unveiled TPU 8t and TPU 8i, an 8th-generation split that matches Nvidia on agentic inference. Ironwood hit GA the same day.