Tesla CEO Elon Musk attends the Saudi-U.S. Investment Forum, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, May 13, 2025. Hamad I Mohammed | Reuters Tesla CEO Elon Musk says the company will likely need to build a “gigantic” semiconductor fabrication plant to keep up with its artificial intelligence and robotics ambitions. “One of the things I’m trying to…
South Korea’s SK Hynix on Wednesday posted record quarterly revenue and profit, boosted by a strong demand for its high bandwidth memory used in generative AI chipsets. Here are SK Hynix’s third-quarter results versus LSEG SmartEstimates, which are weighted toward forecasts from analysts who are more consistently accurate: Revenue: 24.45 trillion won ($17.13 billion) vs….
In this photo illustration a Huawei logo is displayed on a smartphone with a Chinese flag in the background. Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Beijing has banned semiconductor research firm TechInsights from working with or receiving data from Chinese entities, in a move that could add to the opaqueness of the country’s chip…
A logo of the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) displayed on a smartphone screen Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty Images The Trump administration is pushing Taipei to shift investment and chip production to the U.S. so that half of America’s chips are manufactured domestically, in a move that could have implications for Taiwan’s…
iPhone Air is the big newcomer among Apple‘s latest lineup that went on sale Friday, but inside the slim phone’s raised plateau is another new piece of hardware that signals a renewed focus on artificial intelligence. Apple’s custom A19 Pro chip introduces a major architecture change, with neural accelerators added to each GPU core to…
A protest banner depicting U.S. President Donald Trump at Incheon International Airport in South Korea, on September 12, 2025, after the touchdown of a plane holding hundreds of South Korean workers who were detained as part of a U.S. immigration raid at a Hyundai-LG plant in Georgia. Anthony Wallace | Afp | Getty Images U.S….
When Texas Instruments announced a $60 billion manufacturing megaproject in July, it was a bold bet that companies would want to mass produce foundational microchips on U.S. soil. In August, Apple vowed to do just that. During the same Oval Office press conference where President Donald Trump announced a 100% tariff on chips from companies…
The Rebel-Quad is the second-generation product from Rebellions and is made up of four Rebel AI chips. Rebellions, a South Korean firm, is looking to rival companies like Nvidia in AI chips. Rebellions South Korean artificial intelligence chip startup Rebellions has raised money from tech giant Samsung and is targeting a funding round of up…
Workers assemble smartphones at Dixon Technologies’ Padget Electronics Pvt factory in Uttar Pradesh, India, on Jan. 28, 2021. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images India has overtaken China to become the top exporter of smartphones to the U.S., according to research firm Canalys, reflecting the shift in manufacturing supply chain away from Beijing amid tariff-fueled…
A Samsung flag flies outside the company office in Seoul, South Korea on February 05, 2024. Chung Sung-jun | Getty Images News | Getty Images Samsung Electronics has entered into a $16.5 billion contract for supplying semiconductors to a major company, a regulatory filing by the South Korean company showed Monday. The memory chipmaker, which…
