Amazon’s Leo Picks a Fight With Starlink in Central Asia
On the sidelines of the Tashkent International Investment Forum this week, a joint venture owned by Uzbekistan’s state telecom operator signed an agreement to resell internet delivered from space. The…
Broadcom’s Anthropic Orders Reshape a Custom-Chip Bet
When Broadcom’s chief executive Hock Tan took questions on an earnings call in December, he gave investors a name they had spent three months trying to guess. The mystery customer…
xAI Releases Grok 4.7 at an Unchanged Price, Still Behind the Frontier
When xAI shipped Grok 4.7 on Sunday, the company did something unusual in a market where every new model seems to cost more: it kept the price exactly where it…
Five English Police Forces End Palantir Data-Sharing Pilot
The East Midlands Special Operations Unit, the body that coordinates serious and organised crime work across five English counties, confirmed this month that it had ended “Project Nectar,” a Palantir-built…
TSMC Pulls A14 Pilot Production Into 2027
TSMC’s most advanced process node is moving faster than the company’s own schedule. The chipmaker has pulled pilot production of its A14 process, its 1.4-nanometer-class node, forward to the first…
Samsung Expands Memory Output and Backs a Nuclear Reactor
Samsung is pushing on two fronts at once. In its fabs, the company is adding 4-nanometer capacity to make memory chips and compete head-on with SK Hynix for orders. Across…
SK Hynix Halts 2GB GDDR7 Chips as Memory Shortage Spreads
The memory shortage that has driven chip prices higher all year has now reached the graphics card inside a gamer’s PC. SK Hynix has stopped making the 2-gigabyte GDDR7 memory…
Cognex Buys Intel’s RealSense for $500 Million
The 3D cameras that give factory robots a sense of depth began life inside Intel in 2014, part of the chipmaker’s attempt to move beyond processors and into the devices…
Anthropic Juggles a UN Briefing, IPO Plans and a Bay Area Wet Lab
Dario Amodei will appear before the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday, not in person but over a video link, to tell its members about the risks of artificial intelligence.…
AMD’s Value Crosses $1 Trillion on a Data-Center Surge
Lisa Su’s company has spent a decade climbing back toward the top of the chip industry. On September 21, for a few hours at least, it got there. AMD’s market…
