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Broadcom and Apple Renew Chip Deal, Extending Partnership to 2031

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0800

Broadcom and Apple have quietly extended one of the semiconductor industry’s most consequential partnerships. The chipmaker disclosed in a Form 8-K filing with the SEC on Monday that it has signed a new multi-year agreement with Apple, pushing their technical collaboration through 2031.

Intel Confirms CPU Price Hikes — Xeon Server Chips Up 7–12%

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0800

The memory price rally that has pushed up DRAM and NAND flash costs over the past few months now has a new passenger. Intel confirmed Monday that it is raising prices on a portion of its processor lineup, making CPUs the latest core component to join what has become a broad industry-wide cost escalation.

Huawei's Chip Chief Publishes Updated 'Tao's Law' With Kirin 2026 Production Data

Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0800

Huawei’s semiconductor chief He Tingbo dropped the second version of what the industry calls “Tao’s Law” on Wednesday — and unlike most academic theory papers, this one comes with real production measurements from the Kirin 2026 line.

Apple quietly lobbies US government for access to Chinese DRAM chips

Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0800

Apple has been quietly lobbying the White House for permission to buy memory chips from ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT), China’s largest DRAM manufacturer, according to the Financial Times. The company first approached the US Commerce Department more than a month ago and has since reached out to other Washington officials, people familiar with the matter told the paper.

Musk Calls IBM's '0.7nm Chip' Label Misleading, Proposes Naming by Atom Count

Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0800

Semiconductor process node names stopped being literal a long time ago. The number that used to refer to the gate length of a transistor — 7nm, 5nm, 3nm — now functions more as a generational marketing label than a measurement. But Elon Musk thinks the industry has taken that abstraction a step too far.

The billionaire weighed in after a post on X pointed out that IBM’s newly announced “0.7nm” chip — which the company also calls 7Å (angstrom) — contains zero printed features smaller than 1 nanometer. The post called the naming “completely nonsensical and extremely misleading.” Musk agreed, and went further.

“We should name process nodes by the number of atoms corresponding to the minimum feature width,” Musk wrote on X. “In my opinion, that would be the most accurate way to name them.”

Micron and Anthropic Forge Strategic AI Infrastructure Partnership

Mon, 22 Jun 2026 19:20:00 +0800

Micron Technology and Anthropic have announced a sweeping strategic partnership aimed at jointly building the next generation of artificial intelligence infrastructure, bringing together one of the world’s largest memory and storage manufacturers and one of the most prominent frontier AI labs in a multi-layered collaboration that spans hardware co-engineering, long-term supply commitments, enterprise software adoption, and direct equity investment.