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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.

Illustration of an AI-driven chip design process from IEEE Spectrum's coverage.
AI·

An AI agent built a working RISC-V CPU from a 219-word prompt in 12 hours. Here's what it actually did.

Verkor's Design Conductor agent went from a 219-word spec to a tape-out-ready RISC-V core called VerCore in 12 hours. The catch: it's still a Celeron.

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.

Intel corporate newsroom image showing Intel branding
Hardware·

Intel's foundry finally has a whale: Musk says Tesla's Terafab will run on 14A

Elon Musk said Tesla plans to manufacture at Terafab in Austin on Intel's 14A process. It's the first major external customer Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan needs to keep the foundry alive.

Samsung Electronics logo on corporate signage during labor unrest in South Korea
Policy·

Samsung workers are heading for a strike over SK Hynix's bonus checks

Samsung's union voted to walk out May 21 over a bonus gap that sees SK Hynix engineers pocket roughly 4x more. 200+ have already defected.