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Claros AI power-delivery technology
Hardware

Navitas puts grid-to-xPU power delivery at the center of its AI infrastructure deal

Navitas plans to acquire Claros for up to about $232.8 million, adding vertical power delivery and integrated voltage regulators for AI data centers.

3 min to readAug 30, 2026 · 19h
SK hynix's Indiana fab groundbreaking presentation.
Hardware

SK hynix breaks ground in Indiana as AI memory supply moves closer to end customers

SK hynix says its new Indiana production base will expand advanced packaging and HBM capacity, bringing the AI memory supply chain closer to U.S. data-center demand.

3 min to readAug 30, 2026 · 05h
Claros' official visual for its acquisition by Navitas Semiconductor.
Hardware

Navitas to acquire Claros as AI infrastructure pushes power delivery upstream

Navitas says its planned Claros acquisition will add voltage-transformation and isolation technology for the grid-to-xPU path, highlighting how AI infrastructure bottlenecks extend beyond compute chips.

3 min to readAug 30, 2026 · 04h
Google's hero visual for long-context multimodal embedding inference on Cloud TPU.
Hardware

Google brings long-context embedding inference to Cloud TPU and vLLM

Google says its TPU integration targets high-throughput embedding workloads with chunked prefill and compilation warm-up, making retrieval infrastructure more predictable at scale.

3 min to readAug 29, 2026 · 05h
Editorial cover for NVIDIA Vera CPU and agentic AI hardware
Hardware

NVIDIA's Vera CPU says agentic AI needs a new hardware baseline

Vera is shipping now, and NVIDIA is treating that as proof that agentic AI needs more than GPUs. It needs a CPU designed around orchestration, tool use, and fast single-threaded work.

4 min to readAug 28, 2026 · 21h
Editorial cover for Intel rack-to-edge AI infrastructure strategy
Hardware

Intel is selling AI hardware as rack-to-edge infrastructure

Intel is framing AI hardware as a rack-to-edge infrastructure stack, with enterprise, cloud, and edge pieces designed to work together rather than compete as isolated chips.

3 min to readAug 28, 2026 · 05h
Editorial cover for Intel AI infrastructure and rack-to-edge hardware strategy
Hardware

Intel says AI hardware now sells as a rack-to-edge system, not a chip

Intel's current AI messaging is no longer about a single processor or a one-off benchmark. The company is talking about full infrastructure, from rack-scale orchestration to edge inference, which is a better read on where hardware competition actually sits in 2026.

4 min to readAug 27, 2026 · 05h
A split-screen image showing a semiconductor wafer on the left and a law enforcement tactical scene on the right, symbolizing the dual focus of the hardware briefing.
Hardware

Hardware Briefing: Asian Chip Stocks Diverge Post-Nvidia; Regional Hardware Updates

A morning hardware briefing covering the mixed reaction of Asian semiconductor equities to Nvidia's latest results, alongside unrelated regional news items involving explosive devices and athletic achievements.

4 min to readAug 27, 2026 · 05h
A clean, abstract editorial cover featuring a close-up of a microchip with the text 'Hardware Briefing' overlaid in modern sans-serif typography, set against a neutral gray background.
Hardware

Hardware Briefing: Nordic Semiconductor Connectivity Launch at Mouser & Industry Updates

A category briefing covering the availability of Nordic Semiconductor's latest connectivity solutions via Mouser Electronics, alongside brief industry notes on consumer product launches and industrial asset sales.

3 min to readAug 26, 2026 · 17h
Intel and Hot Chips graphic showing a processor package on a dark background.
Hardware

Intel frames Hot Chips 2026 as a three-layer Agentic AI stack

Intel is pairing Diamond Rapids, Crescent Island, and Wildcat Lake with a broader argument that agentic AI should be measured by delivered work, not just core counts.

3 min to readAug 26, 2026 · 05h
Intel manufacturing and foundry turnaround story
Hardware

Intel's $20B stock sale turns its turnaround into a foundry funding test

Intel's enlarged stock offering and sales leadership changes show that the company's hardware story is now as much about funding and execution as it is about chips.

4 min to readAug 25, 2026 · 17h
Neutral data center server aisle representing inference-era hardware economics
Hardware

AI inference is pushing AMD and Intel into a new hardware cycle

Market coverage shows inference demand pulling AMD and Intel toward specialized chips, lower-cost deployment models, and harder financing questions.

3 min to readAug 25, 2026 · 05h
Samsung Semiconductor 3D memory architecture concept
Hardware

Samsung and Intel turn Hot Chips into a memory and packaging showdown

Hot Chips 2026 is showing that the next AI hardware battle is not just about the accelerator. It is about where memory sits, how it is packaged, and how much power the stack burns.

4 min to readAug 24, 2026 · 17h
Rack-scale AI infrastructure in a data center
Hardware

AMD's 4x efficiency gain shows AI hardware competition is now about watts

AMD says rack-scale AI systems are already four times more energy efficient than in 2024, a reminder that the infrastructure race is shifting from raw throughput to power, cooling, and system design.

4 min to readAug 24, 2026 · 05h
Semiconductor and board-level hardware concept.
Hardware

Google and Marvell's custom chip pact shows AI hardware is becoming strategic capital

Google's deal with Marvell is about more than tensor chips. It shows hyperscalers are now treating semiconductor partnerships, warrants, and custom silicon roadmaps as part of a broader capital strategy for AI infrastructure.

4 min to readAug 23, 2026 · 04h
Desktop workstation hardware with glowing components.
Hardware

Surface RTX Spark Dev Box turns local AI into a desktop hardware category

Microsoft and NVIDIA are framing the Surface RTX Spark Dev Box as a local AI machine for personal agents, with petaflop-class compute, 128GB of unified memory, and a Windows-first developer story.

3 min to readAug 22, 2026 · 05h
Advanced server hardware and memory components representing AI infrastructure.
Hardware

Samsung's 3D memory push says the AI infrastructure race is shifting from chips to data movement

Samsung's August 2026 FMS message matters because it argues the next AI hardware bottleneck is no longer raw compute alone, but the way memory, packaging, and storage move data through increasingly power-constrained AI systems.

4 min to readAug 21, 2026 · 17h
High-performance server hardware representing AI data center efficiency.
Hardware

AMD says the next AI hardware race is about power budgets, not only peak compute

AMD's August 18, 2026 update on rack-scale AI energy efficiency matters because it reframes AI infrastructure competition around useful work per watt and per rack, where power, cooling, memory, and interconnect discipline can matter as much as raw accelerator headlines.

5 min to readAug 21, 2026 · 05h
Close-up of semiconductor circuit board representing custom AI chip infrastructure.
Hardware

Google's Marvell warrant turns TPU supply into an equity-aligned chip pact

Marvell disclosed a Google warrant tied to custom TPU-adjacent silicon, showing how hyperscaler chip procurement is becoming long-term, equity-aligned infrastructure strategy.

3 min to readAug 20, 2026 · 05h
Data center server racks representing AI factory infrastructure.
Hardware

NVIDIA turns AI factories into a Wall Street financing product

NVIDIA's partnerships with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR aim to mobilize more than $500 billion for AI infrastructure.

3 min to readAug 15, 2026 · 04h
AMD Helios rack-scale AI infrastructure with GPUs, CPUs, networking, and cooling integrated into a data-center rack.
Hardware

AMD Helios turns the AI hardware contest into a rack-scale systems race

AMD's Helios platform packages Instinct GPUs, EPYC CPUs, networking, ROCm software, and security features into an open rack-scale design aimed at the next phase of frontier training and inference.

4 min to readAug 14, 2026 · 05h
Samsung and Broadcom semiconductor collaboration for AI infrastructure.
Hardware

Samsung and Broadcom tie AI memory to foundry and advanced packaging

Samsung and Broadcom’s new MOU reaches across HBM, 2-nanometer foundry, and 2.3D and 2.5D packaging, underscoring how AI silicon is becoming a systems-supply-chain contest.

3 min to readAug 13, 2026 · 17h
AMD and Samsung next-generation AI memory collaboration represented by accelerator hardware.
Hardware

AMD and Samsung make HBM4 supply part of the rack-scale AI fight

AMD and Samsung are aligning HBM4, next-generation EPYC memory, and rack-scale systems, showing that AI accelerator competition now depends on the whole memory-to-rack supply chain.

4 min to readAug 13, 2026 · 05h
Semiconductor wafer manufacturing equipment in a modern fabrication facility.
Hardware

Micron's $3 billion wafer bet shows AI hardware starts before the chip factory

Micron is putting up to $3 billion behind GlobalWafers' Texas silicon-wafer plant and raising its planned U.S. investment to more than $250 billion through 2035, highlighting the upstream materials bottleneck behind AI infrastructure.

5 min to readAug 11, 2026 · 05h