Intel raises $19.7 billion to help fund future projects as 14A production looms — share sale attracted $100 billion in demand, report claims
Intel raises $19.7 billion to help fund future projects as 14A production looms — share sale attracted $100 billion in demand, report claims

Intel is raising $19.7 billion through a stock offering to strengthen its finances as it expands manufacturing capacity, develops next-generation process technologies, and is trying to attract major external foundry customers.

US lawmaker wants gov’t to enforce regulation to ensure ‘chipmakers conduct adequate due diligence on their customers’ — House member calls for Biden-era export control to be enforced
US lawmaker wants gov’t to enforce regulation to ensure ‘chipmakers conduct adequate due diligence on their customers’ — House member calls for Biden-era export control to be enforced

Congressman John Moolenaar wants the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security to clarify whether Foundry Due Diligence Rule remains effective and continues to be enforced.

Apple has run out of iPhone shapes, and Jefferies just cut it to sell
Apple has run out of iPhone shapes, and Jefferies just cut it to sell

Jefferies cut Apple from hold to underperform on Monday. That is the bank’s equivalent of a sell rating. It also cut its price target from $285.56 to $263.66. Fortune’s Sebastian Herrera reported the call. The bank’s supply-chain checks produced three …

Hyperscalers commit nearly $2 trillion to secure AI hardware and memory — Google leads $811 billion spending surge while Apple trails at $57 billion

As hyperscalers increase their long-term purchase commitments, the high-tech industry faces a tectonic shift as CSPs overwhelm consumer electronics companies.

Musk’s Terafab projected to be larger than the Pentagon, Apple Park, Mall of America, and Giga Texas, combined — all-in-one chip manufacturing facility visualized to show the project’s massive footprint

Elon Musk’s Terafab will have at least 100 million sq. ft of interior space, making it the largest such structure on Earth by a big margin. It seems that it will need this amount of space, though, for Musk’s ambitious plan of bringing multiple semiconductor manufacturing processes under one roof.

China just closed a gap in chipmaking that nobody talks about. The wafer size tells you how far it has to go.
China just closed a gap in chipmaking that nobody talks about. The wafer size tells you how far it has to go.

Hwatsing Technology, China’s leading producer of chemical mechanical polishing equipment, announced a metrology system for six-inch wafers on Thursday that can be built directly into the polishing workflow. The company describes it as China’s first six…

Elon Musk’s massive Terafab chip-making facility starts to take shape — 100 million square feet of manufacturing space and $16.8B initial capital investment

SpaceX and Tesla officially begin to build the massive Terafab facility that will be three times bigger than Samsung’s Pyeongtaek campus.

Nvidia is building an AI safety team, and it has a business reason
Nvidia is building an AI safety team, and it has a business reason

You can read Nvidia’s philosophy in a job advert. The chipmaker is assembling a new AI safety and security engineering team, Business Insider reported. A cluster of listings posted late last month gives it away. The pitch is not caution about what AI m…

Tesla, SpaceX confirm ‘Terafab’ chip fab site — $16.8B first phase
Tesla, SpaceX confirm ‘Terafab’ chip fab site — $16.8B first phase

Tesla and SpaceX have confirmed where they’ll build Terafab, the semiconductor megafactory Elon Musk first teased in March. It’s going to Grimes County, Texas, about an hour northwest of Houston.
The companies put the initial phase at roughly $16.8 bil…

The US wants Chinese optics out of its AI data centres. Amazon and Microsoft pay first.
The US wants Chinese optics out of its AI data centres. Amazon and Microsoft pay first.

China’s two biggest optical module makers took a beating on Wednesday. Zhongji Innolight fell as much as 16%, according to the South China Morning Post. Bloomberg put the intraday drop at 14%. Eoptolink Technology slid with it. The trigger was a Reuter…