TSMC Expands CoWoS Outsourcing as AI Packaging Crunch Persists
TSMC decided this week to open the most technically demanding step of its CoWoS packaging process to outside contractors, a shift aimed at easing the biggest remaining bottleneck in AI…
Zeiss Says EUV Optics Can Keep Pace With AI Demand
In Oberkochen, a town of about 8,000 in southwestern Germany, Zeiss is making room. The company’s semiconductor unit said last month that it had rebuilt part of its headquarters site…
AI Labs Keep Losing Their Star Researchers
Lilian Weng told Thinking Machines Lab last week that she was stepping away as a co-founder, saying the job had taken a toll on her health and she wanted a…
Sequoia’s $1 Billion Nuclear Bet
Valar Atomics raised $1 billion in a Series B round led by Sequoia Capital, tripling its valuation to $6 billion from $2 billion, according to Axios. The startup builds modular…
Airtable’s Discounted Exit
Bending Spoons, the Italian app developer, agreed to buy Airtable for about $1.285 billion in cash, the companies said — its first acquisition since going public, and one of the…
Korea’s National GPU Build-Out
South Korea broke ground on a national AI computing center in Haenam this week, a roughly $1.7 billion project led by Samsung SDS that aims to have 15,000 GPUs running…
Amazon’s $3 Trillion Day
Amazon’s market value crossed $3 trillion for the first time on Aug 3, making it the fifth company to reach that level, as investors rewarded the company’s AI and cloud…
Anthropic’s $10 Billion Cloud Bet
Anthropic has agreed to spend $10 billion on computing power from Volta, a cloud startup so new that most of the industry has never heard of it, according to people…
The White House’s Voluntary AI Test
The four most powerful AI labs in the world — OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta — will gather at the White House on Aug 4 for a closed-door meeting on…
DeepX’s Fourfold Valuation Jump
DeepX Co., a South Korean designer of AI chips, has signed the first agreements in a Series D round that values the company at about 3.14 trillion won ($2.2 billion),…
