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A hand holds a lavender Galaxy Z Fold 8 partly folded outdoors, showing the rear camera bump on one half and the inner display's home screen on the other
Android·

1 million extra Galaxy Z Fold 8s. Samsung is taking the display chips from its 2027 phones.

Korean reports say Samsung is redirecting display driver ICs booked for 2027 into Galaxy Z Fold 8 production. Some US delivery dates have slipped to October.

Apple's press photo of the Mac Studio shot head on, a squat silver aluminum block with two USB-C ports and an SD card slot across the front, on a plain white background
Apple·

Apple's first 2nm chip landed in the $899 Mac mini. The $5,499 Mac Studio ships M5 silicon.

The M6 is Apple's first 2nm chip and it debuts in the cheapest desktop. Mac Studio gets M5 Max and a quad-die M5 Ultra. M6 caps out at 32GB of unified memory.

The low glass-and-steel Nvidia headquarters building in Santa Clara, with the green Nvidia eye logo and the street number 2788 on a concrete monument sign beside the entrance steps
Policy·

74 B300 servers reached China. Taiwan indicted nine, including Nvidia and Supermicro staff.

Taiwan's Keelung prosecutors charged nine people, including an Nvidia Taiwan manager and two Supermicro sales managers, over 74 B300 servers that reached China.

Samsung's System LSI key visual: a Samsung-branded chip package at the center of light traces running out to a car, a foldable phone, a smartwatch and a laptop
AI·

Samsung cut a month of chip verification to two days. Claude Code hid errors instead of fixing them.

Samsung's System LSI division put Claude Code into daily chip work and logged both halves: a 15x verification speedup, and three agent failures worth copying into your guardrails.

Intel and Hot Chips co-branded render of a multi-chiplet processor package, gold compute tiles and blue memory tiles mounted on a dark substrate
Hardware·

Hot Chips 2026: five bets on serving agents cheaply

Intel, IBM, Meta and SiFive each showed a different answer to serving model calls cheaply. Two are already in production, one is a 2027 Xeon.

The roofline of a CXMT fabrication plant, with the blue cxmt logo mounted on grey cladding below four tall exhaust stacks
Apple·

Apple is testing Chinese memory chips for iPhones and Macs despite a bipartisan Senate warning

The Wall Street Journal says Apple is qualifying CXMT DRAM for iPhones and MacBooks. Export rules bar the spec work Apple normally does with a supplier.

AMD's glass-fronted Santa Clara headquarters behind ornamental grasses, with the AMD sign on a low monument by the sidewalk
Hardware·

One model per chip: AMD bought Taalas, whose test part hit 17,000 tokens a second

Taalas casts a model's weights into transistors. Its 6nm test chip served Llama 3.1 8B at roughly 17,000 tokens per second, and AMD just bought the company.

The Anthropic wordmark in black type on the company's cream brand background, taken from its careers page
Hardware·

Anthropic is building an in-house chip team to run Claude cheaper

Anthropic confirmed a custom silicon team for Claude. The target looks like inference cost, and OpenAI's Broadcom chip already ran the same play.

Rows of supercomputer cabinets in a data hall, a technician working at an open rack
Hardware·

China built the world's fastest supercomputer without a single US chip

A Chinese system called LineShine debuted at No. 1 on the TOP500 at ISC'26, running entirely on domestic CPUs co-designed with Huawei. Here's what that means.

Close-up of integrated-circuit packages, the kind of memory and logic chips at the center of South Korea's investment plan
Hardware·

South Korea's $576 billion bet on AI chips runs through Samsung and SK Hynix

South Korea announced a roughly $576 billion (W900 trillion) AI-chip push led by Samsung and SK Hynix, targeting HBM, DRAM fabs, and AI data centers.

A multicrystalline silicon wafer showing thin-film iridescence, the raw material at the start of the chip supply chain.
Policy·

'Pax Silica': the EU just joined the US chip pact France called colonisation

The EU signed the US-led 'Pax Silica' pact to secure AI and chip supply chains. Here's what it commits members to, who's in, and how it ties to export controls.

A silicon wafer patterned with IBM's sub-1-nanometer node test chips.
Hardware·

IBM's 'sub-1nm' chip is a lab milestone, not a product you'll buy soon

IBM showed a 0.7nm 'nanostack' transistor with ~100 billion transistors on a fingernail. It's real research, but the name is marketing and shipping silicon is years out.

Close-up of a Tenstorrent Galaxy AI compute unit with a hexagonal vented faceplate
Hardware·

Qualcomm is chasing a $10 billion AI-chip deal. The target is Jim Keller's RISC-V startup.

Qualcomm is in talks to buy Tenstorrent for up to $10 billion, per Reuters and The Information. The bet: a RISC-V challenger to Nvidia, not just phones.

Apple CEO Tim Cook speaking at a company event
Hardware·

DRAM and storage chips quadrupled in a year. Now Apple says price hikes are unavoidable.

Tim Cook told the WSJ that Apple price rises are unavoidable as an AI-driven memory crunch quadruples DRAM and NAND costs across every consumer device.

An Alibaba booth at a Chinese technology trade expo, with the company's logo above a display floor.
Hardware·

Alibaba's new Zhenwu M890 chip is 3x faster and aimed straight at agent workloads

Alibaba showed the Zhenwu M890 at its Cloud Summit on May 19. 144 GB of memory, 800 GB/s interchip bandwidth, and Qwen3.7-Max riding on top.

Elon Musk speaking at an event, with Tesla and SpaceX branding behind him
Hardware·

SpaceX filed for a $55B Texas chip fab. Total Terafab spend could hit $119 billion.

SpaceX filed plans for a $55B Terafab semiconductor facility in Grimes County, Texas. Total spend could reach $119 billion across phases.

AMD CEO Lisa Su on stage at CES 2026, presenting AI accelerator products
Hardware·

AMD's data center revenue jumped 57% to $5.8 billion in Q1. Its stock closed up 18%.

AMD reported Q1 revenue of $10.25B, up 38% YoY. Data center hit $5.8B (+57%) and Q2 guidance midpoint of $11.2B beat consensus by roughly $700M.

Apple Park headquarters in Cupertino, the campus where Apple Silicon decisions are made
Apple·

Intel jumped 13% on a Bloomberg report that Apple is talking to its old chip supplier again

Bloomberg says Apple is in early-stage talks with Intel and Samsung Foundry to build base M-series chips in the US starting 2027. Intel closed at a record $543B market cap.