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Nvidia shares drop amid TurboQuant fears and lawsuit pressure

Nvidia shares fell about 4% Thursday as investors reacted to competitive, legal and regulatory challenges facing the AI chip leader. Google unveiled TurboQuant this week, an algorithm that cuts AI memory use by up to six times and boosts H100 inference speed by eight times without accuracy loss. Set......

Arm shares surge as new AI chip promises billions in revenue

U.S.-listed shares of Arm Holdings rose nearly 12% in premarket trading Wednesday after the chipmaker announced projections of billions in annual revenue from its new artificial intelligence (AI) data-center chip. Traditionally known for licensing its designs to companies such as Nvidia and Qualcomm,......

Kandou AI raises $225 million to scale AI chip infrastructure

Kandou AI, a Swiss semiconductor startup pivoting toward artificial intelligence infrastructure, has raised $225 million in a funding round backed by SoftBank, Synopsys, Cadence Design Systems and Alchip Technologies. The Lausanne-based company is now valued at about $400 million, marking a major step......

Nvidia unveils DLSS 5 and space AI chip at GTC 2026

Nvidia introduced two major technologies at its GTC 2026 conference in San Jose, announcing a new generation of AI driven gaming graphics and a computing platform designed for use in space. Chief executive Jensen Huang presented DLSS 5 as a breakthrough in real time rendering, calling it a transformative......

Tesla’s mega AI chip factory set to launch in seven days, Musk announces

Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced that the company’s Terafab project, aimed at producing advanced artificial intelligence chips, is scheduled to launch in just seven days. The project represents a significant step in Tesla’s efforts to power its autonomous driving technology with in-house AI......

Nvidia's record quarter fails to excite Wall Street

Nvidia reported another blockbuster set of quarterly results, yet investors responded with striking restraint as the stock barely moved despite a clean beat on both earnings and guidance. The muted reaction underlined how fully the company’s dominance in artificial intelligence hardware is already......

TSMC posts record January revenue as US weighs tariff exemptions

Shares in Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company rose sharply after the world’s largest contract chipmaker reported record revenue for January and as reports suggested the United States is considering tariff exemptions tied to investment commitments by the company. Investor optimism was also......

China halts Nvidia H200 orders pending import conditions

Beijing has instructed Chinese tech firms to pause orders for Nvidia's advanced H200 AI chips while regulators finalize import requirements, according to multiple reports this week. The directive coincides with deliberations over mandating purchases of domestic chips alongside each H200 order. This......

Nvidia weighs expanding H200 output as China rushes to secure AI chips

Nvidia is considering ramping up production of its H200 artificial intelligence chips after seeing a surge in orders from Chinese technology companies. The U.S. chipmaker informed clients that requests have exceeded its current supply, following Washington’s decision to permit exports of the processors......