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Super Micro names Vice President DeAnna Luna as interim chief compliance officer, after SMCI shut down 33% on March 20 amid chip smuggling scandal (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 21, 2026

Featured Podcasts Access: Live from Nvidia’s Nerd Super Bowl, poker takes over technology and the future of banking AI A…

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Jeff Bezos is in talks to raise $100 billion for a fund that would buy companies in industrial sectors such as chip manufacturing and defense and revamp them with AI (Wall Street Journal)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 19, 2026

Featured Podcasts Social radars: Paul Graham, founder of Y Combinator Come be a fly on the wall as Y Combinator’s…

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Chip cooling startup Frore, which designs channels that conduct coolant into 3D shapes unique to each chip, raised $143 million led by MVP at a valuation of $1.64 billion (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 16, 2026

Featured Podcasts Pod BG2: ChatGPT – The era of super assistants Open source podcast about all things technology, markets, investing,…

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STMicro plans to retrain workers and deploy humanoid robots at its former chip factories for repetitive, physically demanding tasks, in a bid to avoid shutdowns (Nathan Vifflin/Reuters)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 13, 2026

Nathan Vifflin / Reuters: STMicro plans to retrain workers and deploy humanoid robots at its former chip factories for repetitive,…

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Intel unveiled its Heracles chip at ISSCC in February, saying it accelerates fully homomorphic encryption tasks up to 5,000 times faster than Intel’s best server processors (Samuel K. Moore/IEEE Spectrum).

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 11, 2026

Samuel K. Moore / IEEE Spectrum: Intel unveiled its Heracles chip at ISSCC in February, saying it accelerates fully homomorphic…

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China’s Commerce Ministry warns of global chip shortage due to "new conflicts" between Dutch chipmaker Nexperia and its Chinese subsidiary (Eduardo Baptista/Reuters)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 7, 2026

Eduardo Baptista / Reuters: China’s Commerce Ministry is warning of a global chip shortage due to “new conflicts” between Dutch…

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Sources: Nvidia plans to unveil new AI inference chip at its GTC conference in March; the system will have a chip designed by Groq and OpenAI is a customer (Wall Street Journal)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 28, 2026

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Nvidia plans to unveil new AI inference chip at its GTC conference in March; the system…

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Taalas, a Toronto-based chip startup that integrates AI models into custom silicon to achieve faster inference, has raised $169 million, bringing its total funding to $219 million (Max A. Cherney/Reuters)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 19, 2026

Max A. Cherney / Reuters: Toronto startup Taalas, which embeds AI models in custom silicon to achieve faster inference, has…

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How Lego’s Creative Play Lab built the Smart Brick, its custom chip, sensors and proprietary communications system to integrate seamlessly with existing sets (Jeremy White/Wired)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 19, 2026

Featured Podcasts Great discussion: Venture is in its peak growth era A podcast mainly about technology. Presented weekly by Angela…

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Sources: TSMC plans to invest another $100 billion to build four additional U.S. manufacturing plants to ensure tariff-free chip sales; analysis: its Arizona site has land for four additional factories (Financial Times)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 14, 2026

Financial Times: Sources: TSMC plans to invest another $100 billion to build four additional U.S. manufacturing plants to ensure tariff-free…

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A profile of Dwarkesh Patel, whose podcast has become a must-listen in the AI community, with guests including Jensen Huang, Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg (Benjamin Wallace/New York Times)

Sources: Genki Robotics, a Tokyo-based humanoid robotics startup co-founded by Andy Rubin, raised a Series A at a valuation of approximately $1 billion; it raised around $50 million in 2025 (Lucinda Shen/Axios)

Inside Andon Market, billed as the first retail boutique managed by an AI agent; Andon Labs experiment uses an agent based on Claude Sonnet 4.6 to manage the store (Heather Knight/New York Times)

An interview with Xbox CEO Asha Sharma and Executive Vice President Matt Booty on the “Return of Xbox” memo, making Xbox Series X and S a “first-class experience again,” and more (Stephen Totilo/Game File)

Google controls about 25% of global AI computing, with about 3.8 million TPUs and 1.3 million GPUs; Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian says demand and revenue justify spending (Stephen Morris/Financial Times)

Browsing: chip

Super Micro names Vice President DeAnna Luna as interim chief compliance officer, after SMCI shut down 33% on March 20 amid chip smuggling scandal (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)

Jeff Bezos is in talks to raise $100 billion for a fund that would buy companies in industrial sectors such as chip manufacturing and defense and revamp them with AI (Wall Street Journal)

Chip cooling startup Frore, which designs channels that conduct coolant into 3D shapes unique to each chip, raised $143 million led by MVP at a valuation of $1.64 billion (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)

STMicro plans to retrain workers and deploy humanoid robots at its former chip factories for repetitive, physically demanding tasks, in a bid to avoid shutdowns (Nathan Vifflin/Reuters)

Intel unveiled its Heracles chip at ISSCC in February, saying it accelerates fully homomorphic encryption tasks up to 5,000 times faster than Intel’s best server processors (Samuel K. Moore/IEEE Spectrum).

China’s Commerce Ministry warns of global chip shortage due to "new conflicts" between Dutch chipmaker Nexperia and its Chinese subsidiary (Eduardo Baptista/Reuters)

Sources: Nvidia plans to unveil new AI inference chip at its GTC conference in March; the system will have a chip designed by Groq and OpenAI is a customer (Wall Street Journal)

Taalas, a Toronto-based chip startup that integrates AI models into custom silicon to achieve faster inference, has raised $169 million, bringing its total funding to $219 million (Max A. Cherney/Reuters)

How Lego’s Creative Play Lab built the Smart Brick, its custom chip, sensors and proprietary communications system to integrate seamlessly with existing sets (Jeremy White/Wired)

Sources: TSMC plans to invest another $100 billion to build four additional U.S. manufacturing plants to ensure tariff-free chip sales; analysis: its Arizona site has land for four additional factories (Financial Times)