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Anthropic Hires Google's TPU Founder for Custom Chip Push
Anthropic taps Amir Salek, who built Google's first seven TPU generations, to lead a custom silicon push as the AI lab scales toward its planned IPO.
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Broadcom Eyes $100B AI Chip Deal With Apollo and Blackstone
Broadcom is in talks to raise up to $100B in debt to fund AI chip supply for Anthropic and others, with Apollo and Blackstone as key lenders.
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Microsoft Maia 300 Chip: September Reveal, 300K TSMC Units
Microsoft will unveil Maia 300 in September with 300K TSMC units ordered for 2027, signaling lower AI compute costs for enterprise workloads.
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NVIDIA and SK Group Sign $500B+ AI Factory Deal
NVIDIA and SK Group announced a $500B+ AI infrastructure partnership July 25, with a 2GW AI factory and a multi-year HBM4 memory co-development deal.
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TSMC Posts Record Q2 Revenue as AI Chip Demand Surges 36%
TSMC reported $39.6 billion in Q2 2026 revenue, up 36% year-on-year, with AI driving 61% of total sales — confirming the infrastructure build-out is real.
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SK Hynix Lists on Nasdaq in Historic $26.5B IPO
SK Hynix begins trading under ticker SKHY, raising $26.5B in the biggest foreign listing in US history, signalling massive confidence in AI chip demand.
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Qualcomm Buys Modular for $4B to Challenge Nvidia CUDA
Qualcomm's $4B acquisition of Modular targets Nvidia's grip on AI inference. Here's what hardware-agnostic AI means for enterprise teams.
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Cerebras Q1 2026: 92% Revenue Growth, $20B OpenAI Deal
Cerebras posted $193M in Q1 2026 revenue, confirmed a $20B+ OpenAI inference deal, and launched an AWS partnership in its first earnings since going public.
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Groq Raises $650M to Rebuild After NVIDIA's $20B Deal
Groq confirms a $650M raise and new leadership as it pivots to an AI inference cloud after NVIDIA licensed its chip technology for $20B in December 2025.
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Qualcomm Eyes $10B Tenstorrent Acquisition for AI Chips
Qualcomm is in talks to acquire Tenstorrent for up to $10 billion, a RISC-V AI chip startup led by legendary chip designer Jim Keller.
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US Clears Nvidia H200 Sales to 10 Chinese Firms
The Trump-Xi summit produced a concrete AI chip outcome: Alibaba, Tencent, ByteDance and others cleared to buy H200s, but Beijing is stalling.
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Anthropic Eyes UK Startup Fractile for Inference Chips
The Information reports Anthropic is exploring a fourth chip supplier with Fractile's SRAM-based design that claims 25x faster inference at one-tenth the cost.
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Cerebras Files for IPO as Nvidia Rival Eyes $25B Valuation
The wafer-scale AI chip startup filed its S-1 on April 17 with $510M in 2025 revenue, backed by a $20B+ OpenAI deal and AWS partnership.
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Anthropic Is Building Its Own AI Chips to Power Claude
Reuters reports Anthropic is weighing custom chip design as Claude demand surges past $30B ARR, mirroring similar moves by OpenAI and Meta.
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Nvidia Invests $2B in Marvell to Open Up Its AI Ecosystem
Nvidia's $2B stake in Marvell and the NVLink Fusion platform signals a fundamental shift: Nvidia is moving from closed GPU dominance to open ecosystem builder.
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