The world’s largest chipmaking equipment maker unveiled a 600,000-square-foot research facility in Sunnyvale on Monday, with Intel, TSMC, Micron, SK Hynix and Samsung co-located on site as founding partners.
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AMD to Acquire World Labs for $8.2 Billion, Making Fei-Fei Li Its Chief Scientist
AMD announced a definitive agreement to acquire World Labs, the physical AI startup founded by Fei-Fei Li, for $8.2 billion in an all-stock deal that will see Li join AMD as executive vice president and chief scientist.
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White House Weighs Semiconductor Tariffs on Laptops, Servers and Consoles
The Trump administration is considering duties on finished products containing chips—laptops, data center servers and gaming consoles—as PC prices already sit more than 20% above year-ago levels.
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Samsung and SK Hynix Both Fall Over 7% as Chip Selloff Crosses Into Asia
KOSPI fell 5.5% and Samsung shed 7.3% on Wednesday as the global chip selloff deepened, with US 30-year Treasury yields reaching their highest level since 2007.
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TSMC Q2 Revenue Surges 36% to Record $39.6 Billion on AI Demand
TSMC reported Q2 2026 revenue of $39.63 billion, a 36% year-over-year rise hitting the upper bound of its own guidance, as AI accelerator orders pushed June to an all-time monthly record of $13.2 billion.
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Nvidia faces Warren’s chip-diversion deadline today as DOJ indictments pile up
June 18 is the deadline Senator Warren set for Nvidia to explain why DOJ indictments allege $670 million in GPU diversions to China that CEO Jensen Huang said never happened.
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FTC opens antitrust probe into Arm as chip designer turns competitor
The US Federal Trade Commission has launched an antitrust investigation into Arm Holdings, questioning whether the chip architect is restricting rivals’ access to processor blueprints after launching its own data-centre chip in March 2026.
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Trump’s January chip order rewrites the rules on AI hardware exports
A January 2026 presidential proclamation imposing a 25 percent tariff on imported AI chips, combined with a BIS rule shifting export review of advanced chips from presumption of denial to case-by-case, has restructured who can buy the most powerful AI hardware and on what terms.
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UK announces AI hardware strategy to cut semiconductor dependence
The UK government unveiled a domestic AI hardware plan in late April, committing to build sovereign capability in the chips and semiconductor technologies underpinning the AI stack — a belated but explicit acknowledgement that dependence on US and Asian supply chains is a strategic vulnerability.