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Apple logo from the Apple Newsroom press release for Q2 2026 second-quarter results
Apple·

Apple booked $111.2B in Q2 with Ternus on the call. Cook warned about RAMageddon.

Apple posted record Q2 revenue of $111.2B (up 17%). John Ternus joined his first earnings call as named CEO. Cook warned AI memory costs will hit Apple's June quarter.

Google logo press image used by 9to5Google for Alphabet's Q1 2026 earnings coverage
AI·

Alphabet hit $109.9B in Q1 and is starting to sell TPUs to outside data centers

Alphabet posted $109.9B Q1 2026 revenue with Cloud up 63% and a $460B backlog. Sundar Pichai said Google will sell TPUs to select customers running them in their own data centers.

Aerial view of a Meta data center site used by Fortune for AI infrastructure spending coverage
AI·

Hyperscalers are on track to spend $700B on AI infrastructure in 2026

Big-tech AI capex is projected at $700B in 2026, up from $410B in 2025. Microsoft alone guided $190B. Wall Street is split: Meta got punished for the spend, Alphabet rallied.

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

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.

AMD EPYC server processor in cinematic studio lighting.
Hardware·

AMD Zen 7 'Florence' leak: 288 cores, a separate cache die, and a 25% IPC swing

Leaked slides describe Zen 7 EPYC scaling to 288 cores per socket, with all L3 moved off the CCD onto a stacked cache die. Tape-out is October 2026, launch late 2028.

Render of Anker's Thus chip alongside a pair of Soundcore earbuds.
Hardware·

Anker built its own AI chip. It runs neural nets inside flash memory cells.

Anker's Thus chip embeds compute inside NOR flash, claims 150x more on-device AI for noise cancellation, and ships in Soundcore earbuds on May 21. Here's why it matters.

Cerebras Systems brand image from the Cerebras website.
Hardware·

Cerebras files for an IPO again, this time with $510M in revenue and a $10B OpenAI deal in its pocket

Cerebras filed an S-1 on April 17 listing as 'CBRS,' targeting roughly $23B at the prior private mark. The OpenAI inference deal is the line item that changed the story.

Meta and Broadcom partnership announcement header showing custom AI silicon
Hardware·

Meta just committed 1 gigawatt of custom AI chips with Broadcom through 2029

Meta and Broadcom expanded their partnership to co-develop four generations of MTIA chips on a 2nm process. Here's what the deal includes and why Nvidia should care.