Nvidia buys AI chip startup Groq’s assets for $20 billion in the company’s biggest deal ever — Transaction includes acquihires of key Groq employees, including CEO

Groq, a rival to Nvidia in the AI chip race, has entered into a non-exclusive agreement with the Green Team, with a deal valued at $20 billion, roughly $13 billion more than Groq’s last evaluation. Nvidia will also hire th…

China chipmaker SMIC raises wafer prices by about 10% as memory demand tightens capacity

The adjustment comes as China’s largest foundry runs near full utilization and faces sustained demand from domestic customers building inventories of memory and logic chips.

Researchers discover that some biodegradable electronics produce microplastics as they degrade — the investigated material is commonly used in medical research

Researchers from Northeastern University discovered that PEDOT:PSS, which is typically used in medical research, breaks down into harmful microplastics.

China’s reverse-engineered Frankenstein EUV chipmaking tool hasn’t produced a single chip — sanctions-busting experiment is still years away from becoming operational

A reported attempt by a covert Chinese lab to reverse-engineer an EUV lithography scanner underscores that, despite access to scattered components, replicating ASML’s EUV tools is effectively impossible without recreating …

‘Twas The Night Before Tom’s Christmas 2025

Enjoy the 2025 holiday poem from the editors of Tom’s Hardware.

Trump administration announces new tariffs on Chinese chips and electronic components — but fresh sanctions won’t take effect until 2027, and rates remain unknown

The United States has slapped a fresh set of tariffs on Chinese electronic components, but their implementation has been delayed until 2027.