Apple Retakes Crown as World’s Most Valuable Company, Closing In on $5 Trillion
Apple Inc. reclaimed the title of the world’s most valuable publicly traded company on Friday, overtaking Nvidia Corp. in intraday trading for the first time since June 2025. The shift…
Sharon AI Signs $1.32 Billion Cloud Deal to Supply AI Lab With Nvidia GPUs
Sharon AI Holdings, an Australian provider of artificial-intelligence cloud services, said Thursday it signed a five-year agreement worth $1.32 billion to supply cloud-computing capacity to a global AI laboratory. The…
Jury Finds Kioxia Infringed Viasat Flash-Memory Patent, Awards $229 Million
A federal jury in Austin, Texas, returned a verdict on Thursday that could cost Kioxia Holdings Corp. $229 million, ruling that the Japanese memory maker’s flash-memory products infringe a patent…
Anthropic Steps Up IPO Prep With Investor Meetings
The meetings are starting to appear on calendars. Anthropic executives have begun sitting down with prospective investors, according to a person familiar with the plans, as the artificial intelligence company…
Apple Courts Chip Startups as AI Server Plans Slip
The call came in quietly. Over the past weeks, executives from Apple’s silicon group have reached out to a handful of semiconductor startups to sound out interest in an acquisition,…
EU Opens Three-Year Antitrust Case Against Broadcom
The pressure has been building for months, and on Thursday it became official. The European Commission has opened a three-year antitrust case against Broadcom, according to people familiar with the…
AMD Keeps Falling Even as Wall Street Raises Its Targets
The upgrades kept coming, and the stock kept falling. Advanced Micro Devices shares slid again on Thursday, extending a run of losses, even as UBS and Bank of America raised…
Korea’s Stock Market Tumbles as Chip Giants Lead a Broad Selloff
The screens in Seoul turned red early and stayed that way. Korea’s KOSPI index fell more than 6% on Thursday, its steepest single-day decline in years, as investors dumped the…
Intel Ships First Chips Made on ASML’s $400 Million High-NA Machines
The machine weighs 165 tons and cost around $400 million, and Intel has put it to work. On July 15, ASML confirmed that Intel Foundry has become the first chipmaker…
ASML Lifts Outlook on AI Chip Demand, Faces New Export Scrutiny
The order book told the story before the executives did. ASML, the Dutch company that makes the lithography machines used to print the world’s most advanced chips, reported second-quarter results…
