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…

From invisibility cloaks to AI chips: Neurophos raises $110M to build tiny optical processors for inferencing |

Twenty years ago, a Duke University professor, David R. Smith, used artificial composite materials called “metamaterials” to make a real-life invisibility cloak. While this cloak…

CES 2026: Everything revealed, from Nvidia’s debuts to AMD’s new chips to Razer’s AI oddities  |

CES 2026iswinding downin Las Vegas,as the consumer tech industry and everyone swarming around it begin their return flights home.Over the past few days, we saw…

Jensen Huang Says Nvidia’s New Vera Rubin Chips Are in ‘Full Production’

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says that the company’s next-generation AI superchip platform, Vera Rubin, is on schedule to begin arriving to customers later this year.…

4 People Indicted in Alleged Conspiracy to Smuggle Supercomputers and Nvidia Chips to China

Stern said text messages obtained by authorities show Li boasting about how his father “had engaged in similar business on behalf of the Chinese Communist…