Samsung Electronics to invest $1.5bn in chip testing plant in Vietnam - report
Facility will support development of DRAM and NAND memory chips to help ease global shortages
Facility will support development of DRAM and NAND memory chips to help ease global shortages
Plus a round up of other quantum computing news
Data center segment will now contain two sub-markets: Hyperscale and AI Clouds, Industrial, and Enterprise
Empower CEO Tim Phillips will continue to lead IVR development efforts once transaction has closed
Company raised $5.55bn from sale of 30 million shares
Share price above the expected range
Series B round was co-led by Accel, Factorial Funds, and Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund
MicroSparc chip generates “continuous electrical power” by harvesting energy from quantum vacuum fields
Extended round brings total raised by the company to more than $350m
Broadcom’s investment in initial project phase reportedly tied to Microsoft purchase commitments
Company notes the fundraise ranks among the largest quantum Series A rounds globally
Round was co-led by DCVC and Kembara, with participation from new investors British Business Bank and Firgun
Chip giant also said customer demand for its new Arm AGI CPU has hit $2bn
Despite significant double-digit data center growth, total revenue remained flat quarter-on-quarter
Company’s shares surged by more than 15 percent to push it past the $1tn mark
Investors in the Series B round included Intel Capital, IQT, and ETF Partners
Company says acquisition will boost its AI and data center product offerings
Record-breaking growth primarily driven by memory demand
Chipmaker netted $231m from sale of its remaining stake in British chip designer this week
Technology Secretary Liz Kendall said she will not accept “defeatism” that the hardware race has already been won by the US and Taiwan
Startup designs custom application-specific photonic chips
Revenue share payments will also no longer be contingent on OpenAI achieving AGI
Social media giant says it will deploy “tens of millions” of Graviton5 cores in support of agentic AI workloads
Shares in the company rose 20 percent after results were published