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Taiwanese memory chip maker Nanya raised $2.5 billion in private placement from Sandisk, SK Hynix’s Solidigm, Cisco and Kioxia to expand advanced chip production (Reuters)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 28, 2026

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U.S. memory chip stocks lost about $100 billion in market value this week, led by Micron’s 15% decline, after Google Research detailed its TurboQuant compression algorithm (Financial Times)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 27, 2026

Financial Times: U.S. memory chip stocks lost about $100 billion in market value this week, led by Micron’s 15% decline,…

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Report: Alibaba’s DAMO Academy unveils XuanTie C950, a 5nm server chip with a 3.2GHz clock, and claims it is "the most efficient RISC-V processor in the world" (Reuters)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 24, 2026

Reuters: Report: Alibaba’s DAMO Academy Unveils XuanTie C950, a 5nm Server Chip with a 3.2GHz Clock, and Claims It’s the…

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Norwegian startup Lace, which is developing a form of lithography using a beam of helium atoms instead of light to create chip designs, has raised a $40 million Series A round (Reuters)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 23, 2026

Reuters: Norwegian startup Lace, which is developing a form of lithography using a beam of helium atoms instead of light…

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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

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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

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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

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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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Aryon Security, whose platform allows companies to define a security strategy, which it translates into actionable policies that cannot be ignored, raised a $29 million Series A (Chris Metinko/Axios)

A look at Unitree’s growth strategy, which mimics those used by BYD and DJI, and leverages its dominance of quadruped robots to create and lead the humanoid market (SemiAnalysis)

Browsing: chip

Taiwanese memory chip maker Nanya raised $2.5 billion in private placement from Sandisk, SK Hynix’s Solidigm, Cisco and Kioxia to expand advanced chip production (Reuters)

U.S. memory chip stocks lost about $100 billion in market value this week, led by Micron’s 15% decline, after Google Research detailed its TurboQuant compression algorithm (Financial Times)

Report: Alibaba’s DAMO Academy unveils XuanTie C950, a 5nm server chip with a 3.2GHz clock, and claims it is "the most efficient RISC-V processor in the world" (Reuters)

Norwegian startup Lace, which is developing a form of lithography using a beam of helium atoms instead of light to create chip designs, has raised a $40 million Series A round (Reuters)

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)