The U.S. Department of Justice has detained two men accused of running a smuggling network to ship Nvidia’s advanced AI chips to China. The scheme allegedly involved relabeling the restricted H100 and H200 GPUs. A third defendant has already pleaded guilty.
NVIDIA has a path to resume H200 chip sales in China under a new Trump-era export framework. The catch? A quarter of all revenue from those sales goes directly to the U.S. Treasury. It’s a creative, but highly unusual, workaround to strict tech controls.
Broadcom shares surged to an all-time high Monday on reports Microsoft may move its custom chip business from Marvell Technology to Broadcom. This follows news Amazon might also shift future Trainium chip development away from Marvell.
TSMC’s advanced chip packaging lines are completely maxed out, forcing the giant to outsource orders for the first time. This is a direct result of insatiable demand from AI players like NVIDIA and AMD. The move could ease bottlenecks but also boosts competitors.
Intel’s stock dropped a sharp 7.4% in a single trading session, sparking fresh investor anxiety. The focus is now on the company’s networking division and how the stock might hold up in a broader market downturn.
In a leaked meeting, Apple’s head of hardware technologies Johny Srouji shut down rumors of his departure. This comes after a report over the weekend suggested he was looking to leave, and during a week where Apple lost four other key executives.
Samsung has formally confirmed its next flagship processor, the Exynos 2600. It’s being pitched as the long-awaited fix for the Exynos line, with a new on-chip heatsink to tackle throttling.
Samsung has officially teased its Exynos 2600 chipset, which is expected to power at least some Galaxy S26 models. The company admits it “listened” to past feedback on overheating and performance. We’ll find out if it delivers in January.
Nvidia is investing $2 billion in electronic design automation giant Synopsys. The deal aims to deeply integrate Nvidia’s GPUs and AI software into Synopsys’s tools, promising massive speedups for engineers. It’s a strategic move to own the foundational tech behind everything from semiconductors to
Researchers have successfully fabricated nitrogen-polar gallium nitride transistors on 200mm sapphire substrates, doubling the previous size limit. This breakthrough could lead to more cost-effective production of high-frequency devices. The team achieved frequencies up to 26GHz with improved carrie
