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Key ChipsH100, B200, TPU v5, Trainium

Key PlayersNVIDIA, AMD, Broadcom, Cerebras

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China Permits Small Nvidia H200 Chip Shipments as ByteDance, Tencent Receive 10,000 Processors Each

China has allowed limited entry of Nvidia H200 chips to mainland China, with ByteDance and Tencent each receiving about 10,000 H200 AI processors. Beijing permits these small shipments while directing companies to keep larger volumes in Hong Kong, balancing the need for advanced AI chips against supporting domestic chipmakers like Huawei.

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China Permits Small Nvidia H200 Chip Shipments as ByteDance, Tencent Receive 10,000 Processors Each

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Etched Doubles Valuation to $21 Billion in a Month After Jane Street Tests AI Inference Hardware

AI chip startup Etched raised $700 million at a $21 billion valuation, doubling its worth in just one month after Jane Street tested its frontier inference clusters. The AI hardware company has now raised $1.9 billion total and secured over $1 billion in customer contracts with its specialized Low Voltage Inference and Cluster Scale Memory technologies.

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Etched Doubles Valuation to $21 Billion in a Month After Jane Street Tests AI Inference Hardware

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Velaura AI Secures $110M Series A Funding, Achieves $1 Billion Valuation with Power-Efficient Chips

Chip designer Velaura AI raised $110 million in Series A funding led by Seligman Ventures, pushing its valuation past $1 billion. The startup's Titan Core platform promises 2-4x improvements in performance per watt for AI data centers, addressing the industry's mounting power consumption challenges.

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Velaura AI Secures $110M Series A Funding, Achieves $1 Billion Valuation with Power-Efficient Chips

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Baidu Revenue Drops for Fifth Straight Quarter Despite Booming AI Cloud Business

Baidu reported a 4% quarterly revenue drop to $4.62 billion, missing analyst estimates as its advertising business declined 19% year-over-year. Despite AI cloud infrastructure surging 50% and GPU Cloud revenue jumping 283%, the company's shares fell up to 10% as CEO Robin Li pledged to bring the Ernie large language model back to AI's frontier.

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Baidu Revenue Drops for Fifth Straight Quarter Despite Booming AI Cloud Business

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Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme outpaces Intel Core Ultra X9 and AMD Ryzen AI 9 by up to 83% in tests

Qualcomm's Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme demonstrated significant performance leads in Signal65 testing, beating Intel Core Ultra X9 by up to 53% and AMD Ryzen AI 9 by 83% in Geekbench 7. The battery-powered Snapdragon system outperformed plugged-in x86 systems across CPU and AI benchmarks, though testing caveats and funding sources warrant scrutiny.

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Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme outpaces Intel Core Ultra X9 and AMD Ryzen AI 9 by up to 83% in tests

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SK Hynix Surges 5.6% as Elon Musk Warns Memory Is AI's Biggest Bottleneck

SK Hynix stock surged 5.6% to $175.67 after Elon Musk declared memory, not compute, is the rate limiter in the agentic AI era. Goldman Sachs projects AI will consume 120 quadrillion tokens monthly by 2030, reinforcing demand for high-bandwidth memory suppliers. Despite the rally, economist Kim Young-ik warns the KOSPI could fall below 5,000 as speculation replaces investment.

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SK Hynix Surges 5.6% as Elon Musk Warns Memory Is AI's Biggest Bottleneck

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High School Dropout James Dacombe Becomes Europe's Youngest Self-Made Billionaire With AI Chip Startup Olix

At 25, James Dacombe has become Europe's youngest self-made billionaire after his AI chip-making firm Olix tripled in value to $3.3 billion following a $312 million funding round. The British entrepreneur dropped out of high school at 17 to build CoMind and later founded Olix, joining just 11 self-made billionaires worldwide under 30.

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High School Dropout James Dacombe Becomes Europe's Youngest Self-Made Billionaire With AI Chip Startup Olix

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Groq Raises $350 Million at $3.5 Billion Valuation as Nvidia Joins Funding Round

Groq has secured $350 million in Series A funding led by Disruptive, with Nvidia joining the round. The AI infrastructure company is valued at $3.5 billion, down from $6.9 billion last September. This marks Groq's continued pivot from AI chip maker to neocloud provider following Nvidia's $20 billion licensing deal that took its founder and key talent.

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Groq Raises $350 Million at $3.5 Billion Valuation as Nvidia Joins Funding Round

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Google Teams with AMD on 10th-Generation TPU Project for Reinforcement Learning Workloads

Google is reportedly collaborating with AMD to develop its 10th-generation TPU, marking AMD's first major involvement in a custom AI accelerator project. The hybrid design may integrate on-package CPU cores alongside tensor compute chiplets to handle reinforcement learning and agentic AI workloads that demand more general-purpose processing power.

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Google Teams with AMD on 10th-Generation TPU Project for Reinforcement Learning Workloads

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Nvidia reveals $21B SpaceX stake and $30B Intel position in strategic AI infrastructure expansion

Nvidia disclosed major equity positions worth over $50 billion in its latest SEC filing, including a $21 billion stake in SpaceX and $30 billion in Intel shares. The chipmaker's strategic investments span AI infrastructure, telecommunications, and chip development, reinforcing its dominance in the AI ecosystem.

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Nvidia reveals $21B SpaceX stake and $30B Intel position in strategic AI infrastructure expansion

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Nvidia invests $1.5B in SB Energy, backs OpenAI's Ohio data center with $105B guarantee

Nvidia commits up to $105 billion to guarantee OpenAI's massive Ohio data center at PORTS-Pike Technology Campus, while investing $1.5 billion in SoftBank-linked data center developer SB Energy. The deal positions Nvidia as the exclusive chip provider for what could become one of the world's largest AI infrastructure projects.

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Nvidia invests $1.5B in SB Energy, backs OpenAI's Ohio data center with $105B guarantee

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Ukraine Finds Nvidia Jetson Orin AI Chip Inside Russian S-71 Cruise Missile

Ukrainian military intelligence discovered an Nvidia Jetson Orin module inside Russia's new S-71 Monochrome cruise missile, suggesting AI-powered autonomous targeting capabilities. The finding raises serious questions about the effectiveness of current export controls and sanctions enforcement despite Nvidia's 2022 exit from Russia.

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Ukraine Finds Nvidia Jetson Orin AI Chip Inside Russian S-71 Cruise Missile

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US Tells Partners to Pick Sides in AI Race with China via Pax Silica Ultimatum

Washington is forcing allies to choose between its Pax Silica initiative and China's rival AI framework. A leaked State Department letter warns 35 countries they cannot belong to both coalitions as the US-China AI technology race intensifies over semiconductors, critical minerals, and AI models.

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US Tells Partners to Pick Sides in AI Race with China via Pax Silica Ultimatum

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Senator Jim Banks Pushes Trump to Support Open-Weight AI Models Over Chinese Alternatives

Republican Senator Jim Banks urged the Trump administration to create incentives for U.S. tech companies to develop open-weight AI models, citing national security concerns about Chinese alternatives. The Senate Armed Services Committee member called for limiting dependence on Chinese-made open-weight models and restricting their access to American semiconductors.

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Senator Jim Banks Pushes Trump to Support Open-Weight AI Models Over Chinese Alternatives

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Samsung Electronics Recruits Two AI Experts to Accelerate Chip Business Transformation

Samsung Electronics has appointed two AI specialists—Han Bo-hyung from Seoul National University and former Meta data engineering manager Hahn Tai-rin—to accelerate AI adoption across its semiconductor operations. The move aims to shorten development cycles, improve manufacturing efficiency, and strengthen Samsung's competitive position in advanced chips.

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Samsung Electronics Recruits Two AI Experts to Accelerate Chip Business Transformation

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