Time for Sam Altman to look down the back of the sofa

The pair will collaborate on data center design and Foxconn will shift more manufacturing to the US

Part of second phase of development

Ups investment even as it hopes to undercut OpenAI on costs

Prior to his appointment in April, Sachin Katti had led Intel’s networking and Edge group

News comes after company denies wanting government handouts

Deal to run for seven years, and will likely see AWS build additional infrastructure to meet startup’s capacity demands

Deal struck with OpenAI and Oracle

Supplying key equipment as part of a delivery of 29 gas turbines to Stargate’s Texas data center

Calls to close “electron gap” with China

Will be split between data centers in Texas and Wisconsin

Lighthouse joins four other planned Stargates, alongside Abilene flagship

Firms look set to occupy entire campus

Chips could launch in the second half of 2026

Suggests it could be part of the country's sovereign AI effort

Company secures more funds for Abilene site hosting OpenAI

Deal will also allow OpenAI to take a ten percent stake in the chipmaker

Chipmakers say Stargate will ultimately require 900,000 DRAM chips a month

Two buildings live, six more on the way

Big Red goes into the red, bigly

At full build-out would give the project 7GW of capacity

Progress made in lengthy negotiations

But do the numbers add up?

Chip has been developed in partnership with Broadcom