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Key ChipsH100, B200, TPU v5, Trainium

Key PlayersNVIDIA, AMD, Broadcom, Cerebras

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United Microelectronics raises 2026 capex to $2 billion, expands fabs for AI demand surge

Taiwan's United Microelectronics announced a major expansion, raising its 2026 capital expenditure to $2 billion from $1.5 billion to meet surging AI demand. The chipmaker will add cleanroom capacity at its Singapore facility and construct a new fab building at its Tainan campus in Taiwan, while reporting strong Q2 results with revenue up 17% year-over-year to $2.18 billion.

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United Microelectronics raises 2026 capex to $2 billion, expands fabs for AI demand surge

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Teradyne Stock Surges 14.5% as AI Demand Drives Record Revenue and Semiconductor Test Growth

Teradyne stock soared 14.5% in after-hours trading after the company reported its second consecutive quarter of record revenue, reaching $1.33 billion—a 104% year-over-year increase. The semiconductor test equipment maker exceeded earnings expectations with adjusted EPS of $2.47, while forward guidance for Q3 dramatically surpassed analyst estimates, validating its position in the AI chip supply chain.

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Teradyne Stock Surges 14.5% as AI Demand Drives Record Revenue and Semiconductor Test Growth

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SK hynix operating profit surges 557% on AI boom, but shares tumble as expectations outpace reality

South Korean memory giant SK hynix posted record second-quarter earnings with operating profit jumping 557% year-over-year to $42 billion, fueled by explosive AI-driven demand for high-bandwidth memory chips. Despite the historic performance, shares plunged as results missed analyst forecasts and global AI selloffs intensified concerns about market sustainability.

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SK hynix operating profit surges 557% on AI boom, but shares tumble as expectations outpace reality

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Core Scientific lands 2.5GW AI infrastructure deal with AMD months after rejecting $9B CoreWeave bid

Former bitcoin miner Core Scientific signed a massive AI data center capacity agreement with AMD that could reach 2.5 gigawatts across five sites in the American South. The deal includes 15-year leases for 529 megawatts and warrants for up to 30 million shares, validating shareholders' decision to reject CoreWeave's $9 billion takeover offer nine months ago.

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Core Scientific lands 2.5GW AI infrastructure deal with AMD months after rejecting $9B CoreWeave bid

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KLA Corp projects strong quarter as AI infrastructure spending fuels semiconductor demand

KLA Corp reported fourth-quarter revenue of $3.66 billion and forecast first-quarter revenue up to $4.2 billion, surpassing Wall Street estimates. The semiconductor equipment manufacturer expects accelerating momentum through 2027, driven by AI infrastructure buildout and rising demand for process control systems. Despite the upbeat quarter forecast, shares fell 8% in after-hours trading.

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KLA Corp projects strong quarter as AI infrastructure spending fuels semiconductor demand

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Honor Robot Phone launches August 12 with dual 200MP cameras and cinema-grade AI imaging

Honor confirms its Robot Phone will launch August 12—the same day as Google's Pixel 11—featuring dual 200MP cameras mounted on a 4DoF gimbal system and professional ARRI cinema workflows. The device introduces Honor's AiMAGE architecture and custom Yuguang H1 imaging chip, marking the company's transition into an AI terminal ecosystem provider. Pre-orders have already surpassed 200,000 units in China.

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Honor Robot Phone launches August 12 with dual 200MP cameras and cinema-grade AI imaging

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Mystery reviewer tests Nvidia RTX Spark prototype in Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra

A TechPowerUp forum user spent a month with an unreleased Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra powered by Nvidia's RTX Spark N1X chip. The pre-release AI hardware prototype showed potential but suffered from immature drivers, GPU stuttering, and power management issues. Performance fell short of the promised RTX 4070 levels, landing closer to RTX 3060 Ti territory.

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Mystery reviewer tests Nvidia RTX Spark prototype in Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra

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Nvidia behind $50bn lease on Texas data centre, raising questions about AI market financing

Nvidia has committed up to $50bn to lease Hut 8's entire 1-gigawatt Beacon Point facility in Texas, housing hundreds of thousands of its GPUs. The Financial Times reports the chipmaker could sublease capacity to cloud computing partners, but the arrangement intensifies concerns about circular financing as Nvidia underwrites more of the market for its own chips.

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Nvidia behind $50bn lease on Texas data centre, raising questions about AI market financing

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Taiwan detains Nvidia employee in expanding AI chip smuggling probe targeting Super Micro servers

Taiwan prosecutors detained an Nvidia employee suspected of falsifying documents to smuggle AI servers to China, marking the first known legal action against an Nvidia staffer in such a case. The Keelung District Prosecutors' Office searched the employee's home and Taipei office desk, citing flight risk and evidence tampering concerns. Seven people now sit in custody as the investigation expands beyond Super Micro into Nvidia itself.

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Taiwan detains Nvidia employee in expanding AI chip smuggling probe targeting Super Micro servers

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AI Stock Sell-Off Hammers Chipmakers as South Korean Market Plunges 25% in Month

The South Korean stock market faced unprecedented turmoil as AI stock sell-off intensified, with trading halted after the Kospi plunged 8 percent. SK Hynix shares dropped 45 percent from June highs despite record profits, while Samsung Electronics fell over 9 percent, wiping $570 billion off market value and raising questions about the sustainability of AI spending.

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AI Stock Sell-Off Hammers Chipmakers as South Korean Market Plunges 25% in Month

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Anthropic's Dario Amodei clarifies stance on open-weight models amid AI civil war

Dario Amodei has clarified that Anthropic never advocated for banning open-weight models, despite not signing an industry letter supporting them. While nearly 80 tech companies backed open AI model accessibility, Anthropic's CEO expressed concerns about AI safety risks, particularly from authoritarian governments and biological attacks. His stance highlights the growing divide in how the industry approaches US-China tech competition and model distillation practices.

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Anthropic's Dario Amodei clarifies stance on open-weight models amid AI civil war

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Cadence Design Systems raises annual forecasts as AI chip design demand surges by 24%

Cadence Design Systems increased its 2026 revenue and profit projections, driven by accelerating demand for AI-powered chip and system design software. The company now expects revenue between $6.26 billion and $6.34 billion, up from prior guidance of $6.13 billion to $6.23 billion. Second-quarter revenue jumped 24% year-over-year to $1.584 billion, with a record backlog of $8.1 billion signaling sustained momentum in semiconductor design tools.

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Cadence Design Systems raises annual forecasts as AI chip design demand surges by 24%

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Synopsys unveils autonomous chip design workflows with Microsoft, cuts debug time by up to 40%

Synopsys and Microsoft have launched autonomous agentic AI workflows for chip design, now available for evaluation on Microsoft Discovery. The collaboration introduces two workflows that reduce debug cycle time by 25-40% and automate quality-of-results tuning. AMD is actively evaluating these first-of-their-kind EDA applications to accelerate next-generation product development.

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Synopsys unveils autonomous chip design workflows with Microsoft, cuts debug time by up to 40%

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AI vendors shift to consumption pricing as AI PCs emerge to control spiralling cloud costs

Major AI vendors are abandoning per-seat subscriptions for token consumption pricing, making cloud AI significantly more expensive for enterprises. AI PCs with neural processing units now offer a cost-effective alternative by running local models for routine tasks, providing zero marginal cost per query after hardware purchase. The shift creates a new hybrid model where enterprises balance cloud infrastructure for complex tasks against local compute for high-volume, low-complexity work.

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AI vendors shift to consumption pricing as AI PCs emerge to control spiralling cloud costs

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CXMT shares surge 466% in blockbuster $8.6 billion IPO as China's memory chipmaker rides AI boom

ChangXin Memory Technologies became mainland China's most valuable company after its shares rocketed over 466% on debut, raising $8.6 billion in the country's biggest IPO since 2010. The DRAM memory chipmaker's meteoric rise reflects surging AI-driven demand, but faces challenges from U.S. export restrictions and geopolitical tensions.

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CXMT shares surge 466% in blockbuster $8.6 billion IPO as China's memory chipmaker rides AI boom

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