Trump administration targets $4 trillion Pax Silica investment fund for semiconductors — the US will start with a $250 million investment for global consortium

The Trump administration is targeting $4 trillion Pax Silica investment for semiconductors. It’s not currently clear how the Trump administration arrived at the $4 trillion figure, or how it will ultimately materialize.

Why Thermal Metrology Must Evolve for Next-Generation Semiconductors
Why Thermal Metrology Must Evolve for Next-Generation Semiconductors

An in-depth examination of how rising power density, 3D integration, and novel materials are outpacing legacy thermal measurement — and what advanced metrology must deliver.What Attendees will LearnWhy heat is now the dominant constraint on semiconduc…

Supermicro employees accused of smuggling $2.5 billion worth of Nvidia hardware to China — perps used a hairdryer to move serial numbers between real hardware and thousands of dummy servers

Three Super Micro employees have been charged with conspiring to unlawfully divert cutting edge U.S. artificial intelligence technology to China.

Tesla hiring semiconductor fabs construction manager — Elon Musk’s ambitious Terafab project begins

Tesla begins to form a core team behind its Terafab project, which will define the fab and spearhead its construction and tamp.

How Nvidia’s $20 billion Groq 3 LPU deal reshapes the Nvidia Vera Rubin Platform — Samsung 4nm process serves as bedrock for SRAM-based AI accelerator chip

Nvidia unveiled the Groq 3 language processing unit at GTC 2026 in San Jose on Monday, marking the first chip to emerge from its $20 billion licensing and talent deal with Groq.

Researchers reach superconductivity at ambient pressure, record high temperature — milestone of -122°C reached by using pressure quenching, still 140 degrees off room temperature target

Researchers from the University of Houston managed to increase the critical temperature for superconductivity by about 18 K at ambient pressure, but at −122°C, they are still 140°C away from the target.

AMD and Samsung ink memory supply memorandum for EPYC and Instinct products — unprecedented deal also includes scope for foundry partnership

Samsung to remain primary HBM memory supplier for AMD’s AI accelerators as the companies look into possible foundry relationship.

Meta’s new MTIA lineup joins hyperscalers’ unified push for dedicated inferencing chips — companies diversify AI chips in effort to diversify from sole reliance on Nvidia

As Meta introduces its lineup of new AI chips, the company joins other tech giants in diversifying the AI accelerators used for specific workloads, and says that mainstream GPUs built for large-scale pre-training are less …

Intel’s roadmaps examined — 14A, Nova Lake, Diamond Rapids & AI accelerator push

Intel’s CPU roadmap is unlike any the company has published in recent years, because its manufacturing ambitions and its product launches have to succeed simultaneously.