Neocloud Lambda secures $1B in debt to buy more chips |

In Brief Posted: 1:24 PM PDT · August 28, 2026 Lambda, an AI cloud company that buys computing chips and rents them out to businesses,…

Amazon just tripled its order of Nvidia chips over 'surging demand' |

Amazon and Nvidia just got a lot closer. The two companies announced Wednesday an expanded partnership that includes a deal to add another 2 million…

Discovered Materials is playing AI whack-a-mole to hunt cooler chips |

Chips running AI workloads are too hot: That’s one reason why data centers consume so much electricity and require cooling systems. And, inevitably, entrepreneurs are…

Hot French startup ZML releases free product to speed inference across lots of AI chips |

The days of Nvidia’s unparalleled market dominance aren’t over, but challengers and choices are arising from all directions. ZML, a hot French AI startup endorsed…

Nvidia-backed SiFive hits $3.65 billion valuation for open AI chips |

7:03 AM PDT · April 11, 2026 SiFive, a company founded in 2015 by the UC Berkeley engineers who created an open source chip design,…

Cognichip wants AI to design the chips that power AI, and just raised $60M to try |

The most advanced silicon chips have accelerated the development of artificial intelligence. Now can AI return the favor? Cognichip is building a deep learning model…

Arm Is Now Making Its Own Chips

Arm, one of the world’s leading chip design firms, announced Tuesday that it is producing its own semiconductors. The move is a departure from its…

Meta Is Developing 4 New Chips to Power Its AI and Recommendation Systems

Meta announced Wednesday that it has developed four new computer chips that will be used to power generative AI features and content ranking systems within…

Exclusive: Positron raises $230M Series B to take on Nvidia’s AI chips |

Semiconductor startup Positron has secured $230 million in Series B funding, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. The outfit plans to use the capital to speed up…

Exclusive: Positron raises $230M Series B to take on Nvidia's AI chips |

Semiconductor startup Positron has secured $230 million in Series B funding, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. The outfit plans to use the capital to speed up…