Three Super Micro employees have been charged with conspiring to unlawfully divert cutting edge U.S. artificial intelligence technology to China.

Tesla begins to form a core team behind its Terafab project, which will define the fab and spearhead its construction and tamp.

Nvidia unveiled the Groq 3 language processing unit at GTC 2026 in San Jose on Monday, marking the first chip to emerge from its $20 billion licensing and talent deal with Groq.

Researchers from the University of Houston managed to increase the critical temperature for superconductivity by about 18 K at ambient pressure, but at −122°C, they are still 140°C away from the target.

Samsung to remain primary HBM memory supplier for AMD's AI accelerators as the companies look into possible foundry relationship.

Samsung announced an investment of over 110 trillion won, roughly $74 billion in AI chips, Texas semiconductor factory expansion, and R&D in 2026.

That’s meant to secure leadership in the AI semiconductor era, according to the company’s corporate value enhancement strategy disclosed on March 19th.

Samsung thinks this is the moment to go all in on AI chips. The Taylor, Texas Foundry is expected to reach mass production sometime in 2027, which means most of the equipment installs and process work have to be wrapped up this year if that timeline stays remotely intact.

On the memory side, HBM4 is now in mass production, delivering speeds of 11.7 gigabits per second that exceed the industry standard of 8GB, while the company’s already pushing HBM4E and HBM5 development simultaneously.

Samsung posted 20 trillion won in operating profit in the fourth quarter of last year, and brokerages have forecast annual operating profit exceeding 130 trillion won this year, so this $74 billion isn’t a gamble.

It’s Samsung doubling down at the exact moment the memory supercycle and the foundry recovery overlap. The company’s betting it can convert HBM momentum and the Taylor ramp into sustained dominance before the window closes.

Last year Samsung spent 90 trillion won total, which was already a company record. This year’s number shatters that by more than 20 trillion won. It’s also the fattest single year inside the company’s already massive five year, 450 trillion won investment roadmap.

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Hyundai Mobis said it plans to raise the share of global customer companies in parts manufacturing by 2033.

As Meta introduces its lineup of new AI chips, the company joins other tech giants in diversifying the AI accelerators used for specific workloads, and says that mainstream GPUs built for large-scale pre-training are less cost-effective for inference workloads.

Industry analysts said memory chip prices have surged more than 300% over the past three months.

Intel's CPU roadmap is unlike any the company has published in recent years, because its manufacturing ambitions and its product launches have to succeed simultaneously.

As cheap Chinese chips threaten to invade various sectors of the economy in Europe, STMicroelectronics is on track to improve the efficiency of its own fabs

Elon Musk plans to start his 'Terafab Project' semiconductor production venture in a week.

Rimal Semiconductors, a Saudi-based chip design startup, has raised a bridge funding round from Keheilan Asset Management alongside an undisclosed regional investor, bolstering its ambitions to expand its role in the global semiconductor ecosystem.

The new capital will advance Rimal’s plan to scale as a fabless semiconductor company—focusing on chip design while relying on international foundries for manufacturing. The startup already works with partners in Taiwan, South Korea, and China, and is now in talks with US foundries to further broaden its production footprint.

Rimal frames this distributed model as a strategic response to the increasingly fragmented semiconductor landscape, where US–China tensions continue to reshape supply chains and limit market access for many firms.

By keeping its intellectual property under Saudi ownership while diversifying manufacturing across multiple geographies, the company aims to ensure its chip designs can reach global customers regardless of where fabrication takes place.

The startup is also close to finalizing a distribution agreement with a regional partner covering Turkey, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, and the UAE. The deal includes on‑the‑ground engineering teams to support clients in each market.

Rimal currently has six contracts in advanced stages, including one with a major Egyptian conglomerate. The projects span defence technologies, power grid systems, and data‑centre infrastructure—sectors where demand for specialized semiconductor solutions continues to accelerate.

 

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