China’s Biren raises $892M to build GPUs that can take on Nvidia at home
China’s Biren raises $892M to build GPUs that can take on Nvidia at home

Nvidia can barely sell its best chips in China. A crop of local challengers is racing to fill the gap. One of them just raised nearly $900m to speed up. Shanghai Biren Technology is selling HK$7 billion (about $892.5m) of new shares to boost GPU produc…

Nvidia’s Kyber AI rack slips to 2028, and one circuit board is to blame
Nvidia’s Kyber AI rack slips to 2028, and one circuit board is to blame

Nvidia’s next flagship AI machine has hit a wall, and the culprit is a single circuit board. The Kyber rack meant to house its 2027 Rubin Ultra chips has slipped to 2028. Research firm SemiAnalysis flagged the delay, and CNBC reported it. Kyber is not …

South Korea plans a ‘future response fund’ built on its AI chip tax windfall
South Korea plans a ‘future response fund’ built on its AI chip tax windfall

South Korea will seek to create a “future response fund” financed by the tax windfall from its semiconductor boom, Yonhap reported. The proceeds would flow into AI, advanced manufacturing, and other long-term growth engines. Presidential chief of staff…

India’s CG Semi starts commercial chip production at $870M Gujarat plant
India’s CG Semi starts commercial chip production at $870M Gujarat plant

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated commercial production at CG Semi’s chip assembly and testing plant in Sanand, Gujarat. The facility will initially turn out 200 million chips a year, according to ANI, with plans to scale to 500 million. The…

Hong Kong now handles more than half of China’s chip imports
Hong Kong now handles more than half of China’s chip imports

Hong Kong has become the main artery for high-tech goods flowing in and out of China, and its chip trade has hit record levels. The city accounted for more than half of China’s $239bn in semiconductor imports in the first five months of 2026, according…

The chip industry has a warning for Trump: hands off the memory market
The chip industry has a warning for Trump: hands off the memory market

The memory shortage has become a political problem in Washington. Now the chip industry has a message for the Trump administration: leave the market alone, or the squeeze gets worse. The warning came in a letter from SEMI, a semiconductor industry grou…

Weave’s $7,999 Isaac 1 bets home robots don’t need legs or fingers
Weave’s $7,999 Isaac 1 bets home robots don’t need legs or fingers

The robot butler has been five years away for about twenty years. Weave Robotics thinks the trick is to aim lower. Its new home robot, Isaac 1, does not walk, has no fingers, and mostly just wants to do your laundry. It also costs a fraction of its hum…

The AI memory squeeze is about to hit Europe’s shopping baskets
The AI memory squeeze is about to hit Europe’s shopping baskets

The AI memory squeeze has been an industry story for months. Now it is heading for the till. Currys, Britain’s biggest consumer electricals retailer, has warned that phones, laptops and TVs will cost more later this year. Chief executive Alex Baldock d…

IQM becomes the first European quantum company to list on a major US exchange
IQM becomes the first European quantum company to list on a major US exchange

Europe just put its first quantum computing company on a major American stock exchange. And it did so without leaving home. IQM, a Finnish maker of quantum machines, started trading on Nasdaq this week. The debut was equal parts landmark and reality ch…

Scientists built a cell from scratch that eats, divides and evolves. They just won’t call it alive
Scientists built a cell from scratch that eats, divides and evolves. They just won’t call it alive

Scientists in Minnesota have built a cell from scratch. It can feed, grow, and divide, and it competes with its own offspring. Its makers do not claim it is alive. But the line between chemistry and biology just got a lot thinner. The team at the Unive…