Four workers killed after fall at TSMC’s 2nm fab construction site
Four workers killed after fall at TSMC’s 2nm fab construction site

Four contract workers died after a fall at TSMC’s Fab 22 construction site in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

Supermicro expects up to $19.5bn in quarterly revenue, $4bn above guidance
Supermicro expects up to $19.5bn in quarterly revenue, $4bn above guidance

Supermicro expects to report revenue of $18.5bn to $19.5bn for the three months to September, against the $14.5bn to $15.5bn it had guided. The AI server maker put the gap down to “increased demand for AI platforms”. The company published the prelimina…

Meta details Prometheus, the Ohio supercluster heading for 1 million GPUs
Meta details Prometheus, the Ohio supercluster heading for 1 million GPUs

Meta’s Prometheus supercluster in New Albany, Ohio, already runs hundreds of thousands of Nvidia GPUs across several buildings, and Meta plans to grow it to about 1 million. The company set out the details in an engineering blog post on Monday. The fir…

OpenAI pulls back from China chip controls, Politico reports
OpenAI pulls back from China chip controls, Politico reports

OpenAI has stopped pushing for strict US limits on selling advanced chips to China, according to Politico. For much of last year the company openly called for such limits. Capitol Hill aides and lobbyists with direct knowledge of its position now say i…

DeepSeek open-sources DeepInfer, the engine that runs its AI models
DeepSeek open-sources DeepInfer, the engine that runs its AI models

DeepSeek has open-sourced DeepInfer, the software it uses to run its AI models in production. The Chinese AI lab announced the release on X on Tuesday and published the code on GitHub under the Apache 2.0 licence. For now, it supports only DeepSeek-V4….

ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent order $35bn of Nvidia chips, Reuters reports
ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent order $35bn of Nvidia chips, Reuters reports

ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent have ordered more than 3 million of Nvidia’s RTX PRO 5500 graphics cards. Their combined sticker price is over $35bn. Reuters reported the orders on Tuesday, citing two people familiar with the matter. TNW has not indepen…

Intel asks FCC for waiver to buy foreign robots
Intel asks FCC for waiver to buy foreign robots

Intel is concerned that the sweeping ban on foreign-made robots means that it could not update or maintain its fleet of AGVs.

Nvidia reportedly wants all its HBM suppliers to use TSMC’s 3nm process
Nvidia reportedly wants all its HBM suppliers to use TSMC’s 3nm process

Samsung Electronics will make a core part of Nvidia’s custom memory chips on TSMC’s 3-nanometre process. The Seoul Economic Daily reported the move on Sunday, citing industry sources. It would be the first time the two have worked together on making hi…

Amnon Shashua’s doubleAI launches an AI that speeds up code while it runs
Amnon Shashua’s doubleAI launches an AI that speeds up code while it runs

Amnon Shashua’s startup doubleAI has launched Maxwell, an AI model that works inside running software to make it use less computing power. Shashua co-founded the Tel Aviv company and is its chief executive. The company announced Maxwell on Monday and o…

Tenstorrent raises $1.5B at a $6.2B valuation to scale its Galaxy servers
Tenstorrent raises $1.5B at a $6.2B valuation to scale its Galaxy servers

Tenstorrent, the AI chip company run by Jim Keller, has closed a $1.5bn Series E round at a $6.2bn post-money valuation, it announced on Monday. Trace Capital and Innovation X led the round. New and existing investors also took part. They include Agost…