Japanese Passive Component Makers Post Record Capacitor Shipments
The unglamorous parts inside every electronic device are having a moment. Japanese manufacturers of capacitors, resistors and other passive components shipped 231.4 billion yen worth of goods in April, up…
Siemens to Spend 300 Million Euros on German Plants for AI-Era Technology
Construction crews will begin work this month on a new Siemens supplier facility in Offenbach, outside Frankfurt, one of three projects the German industrial group announced on July 1 as…
Neon Picks Up OpenAI Film Dropped by Amazon
Andrew Garfield spent months this year learning to move like Sam Altman, the boyish chief executive of OpenAI who was fired by his board in November 2023 and reinstated days…
AWS to Embed Engineers With Customers in $1 Billion AI Push
The basketball analysts at the NBA’s league office in New York have been working with software that tracks every pass, shot and defensive rotation in real time. The system runs…
Panasonic to Spend 500 Billion Yen on AI as It Trims Appliances
The company that once defined Japanese consumer electronics, with the VCR, the plasma television and a name that appeared on millions of kitchen counters, is spending its way into the…
AI Chip Startup Etched Discloses $800 Million in Funding
Peter Thiel, the venture capitalist who made early bets on Facebook and Palantir, has invested in a lot of artificial-intelligence companies. Geoffrey Hinton, the computer scientist sometimes called the godfather…
U.S. PC Shipments Fall 7% as Memory Costs Bite and Upgrade Cycle Fades
The corporate buyer who refreshed his company’s laptops in 2024, when Windows 11 upgrades were rolling out and prices were reasonable, is not buying again this year. Neither, it seems,…
OpenAI’s First Hardware Is a Keyboard for Codex, Not a Phone
The video OpenAI posted on June 30 is short and, for a company whose every announcement is scrutinized for clues about the future of computing, oddly mundane. It shows a…
Microsoft Plans Layoffs of About 5,700, Hitting Xbox and Sales Units
The email was addressed to a sales director in Microsoft’s enterprise business, and its subject line was the one employees in Redmond have learned to recognize: a meeting invitation from…
Meta Builds Cloud Business to Rent Out Idle AI Computing
The data centers Meta has been throwing up across the American plains were built for one purpose: running the models behind Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. But the servers in those…
