Chips, GPUs, processors, and the physical infrastructure powering the digital world.
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Mercury Research data shows AMD's x86 share climbed to 34.1 percent in Q2 2026 — a fresh all-time high — on the same day TSMC confirmed 1.6-nanometer development was complete and disclosed that it has begun outsourcing CoWoS packaging work to Intel's Malaysian plant.
SK Hynix announced a 3.3% treasury share retirement worth roughly $10 billion on August 22 while TSMC's C.C. Wei told investors on August 21 that chip supply cannot meet AI-fueled demand 'for years.' The two messages together redraw the memory-versus-foundry bottleneck map for 2027.
Google secured warrants to buy 59 million Marvell shares as part of a custom AI silicon deal aimed at cutting reliance on Broadcom. The deal, reported on August 20, is the third major non-NVIDIA AI silicon announcement in two weeks and accelerates the disaggregation of the AI accelerator stack.
ByteDance and Tencent have each received around 10,000 Nvidia H200 AI chips, according to Financial Times reporting on August 18 and follow-ups on August 19. The small-batch shipments run at roughly 13 percent of the legal license ceiling and mark the first concrete H200 deliveries to mainland China since the January 2026 approval.
Supply-chain reporting on August 14–17 confirmed that NVIDIA will skip TSMC's N2 process for its post-Rubin 'Feynman' generation and go straight to the A16 1.6nm node with backside power delivery, 3D chiplets via SoIC, custom HBM4E, and co-packaged optics. TSMC is accelerating AP7 and AP8 construction to support a potential 50,000-wafer SoIC run rate by end-2027.
NVIDIA's August 14, 2026 SEC 13F filing discloses $21 billion in SpaceX equity and $30 billion in Intel stock, the same two companies pledging exclusive chip purchases from NVIDIA in prior private agreements. The disclosures turn what was rumor into a confirmed $51 billion cross-equity network.
Nvidia's latest 13F filing on August 15 showed it holds $63.44 billion in US-listed equities, with Intel and SpaceX making up 80.3 percent of the portfolio, while Zotac's parent warned of further GPU price hikes through the rest of 2026.
Intel raised $20 billion from an upsized equity offering priced at $95 a share on August 11, cashing in on a stock that has nearly tripled this year to fund its costly contract chipmaking push.
Nvidia raised the price of its RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell workstation card to $16,000 on August 12 — up 20.8 percent in two months and 87 percent since launch — as the HBM boom squeezes GDDR7 graphics memory supply.
Yangtze Memory Technologies captured 14% of global NAND bit shipments in Q2 2026, overtaking Micron and Kioxia to rank third behind Samsung (25%) and SK Hynix (22%), according to Counterpoint Research.
The KOSPI jumped as much as 5.1% after a report that Singapore's Temasek plans to invest directly in Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, extending a rebound in memory stocks still trading at a fraction of the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index's multiple.
The world's largest contract electronics maker posted net profit of NT$59.97 billion for April–June and reaffirmed its 'strong' growth forecast, as it builds factories in Mexico and Texas to make AI servers for Nvidia.
Engineering-sample benchmarks of NVIDIA's RTX Spark (N1X) — the company's first Arm processor for Windows PCs — appeared in Geekbench 7 on August 9, posting 2,570 single-core and 23,126 multi-core, outperforming AMD and Intel laptop flagships, 36Kr reported.
Non-GAAP earnings of $1.70 per share beat the 92-cent consensus by nearly double, and fiscal 2027 guidance of $65-72 billion towers over the $54.4 billion Street forecast, sending SMCI stock up 18 percent.
Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR will pour half a trillion dollars into data centers and chip plants — the first time AI hardware has been treated as an investable asset class, Nvidia said Monday.
AMD announced August 6 it will acquire Toronto-based Taalas, whose chips permanently embed trained model weights in silicon, planning to integrate the technology into its Instinct GPU roadmap for data-center inference.
The Semiconductor Industry Association reported Q2 2026 global chip sales of $403.3 billion, up 35.1% from Q1, with June sales of $134.5 billion jumping 123.6% year over year — putting 2026 on track to exceed $1.5 trillion.
Tesla and SpaceX said Thursday they will invest an initial $16.8 billion in 'Terafab,' a 100-million-square-foot advanced chip factory in Grimes County, Texas, that Elon Musk calls the largest and most valuable building on Earth, as the companies race to secure AI compute.
The AI connectivity specialist reported record second-quarter revenue of $392.4 million on August 4, more than doubling year over year as demand for its Scorpio switches and data center interconnect products accelerated.
Intel's next-generation EMIB-T advanced packaging has surpassed 90 percent yield at a manufacturing cost about 50 percent below TSMC's CoWoS, with full-scale mass production expected next year, Taiwan's Economic Daily News reported.
AMD reported record second-quarter revenue of $11.54 billion, up about 50% year over year, with data center revenue more than doubling to $6.7 billion. Investors sold anyway, pushing the stock down after guidance failed to wow.