Lam Research (LRCX) falls 12% after supply warning as chip stocks suffer worst day since June
Lam's record quarter wasn't enough. Its finance chief said some December shipments will slip to March, and China's share of sales is set to fall.
AI chipmaker Tenstorrent raises $1.5 billion at a $6.2 billion valuation, with Sandisk (SNDK) among backers
Jim Keller's chip company more than doubled its valuation months after reported takeover interest from Intel and Qualcomm. Here's who invested and where the money goes.
Intel (INTC) CEO Lip-Bu Tan reportedly sees Chinese chips as not far behind US technology
Tan also said the Trump administration has no policy to use its Intel stake to steer the company, and he calls Chinese AI models good enough.
Intel (INTC) plans its Razor Lake-AX robot chip for 2028. It's aiming for about 700 TOPS.
An Intel executive gave the 2028 target at a humanoid robot chip conference in Seoul. The date lines up with Korean robot makers' production plans.
TSMC (TSM) posted a record profit for the sixth straight quarter. Its CEO says any Terafab plant would have to be run by TSMC.
Revenue beat TSMC's own forecast, the 2026 outlook went up, and the CEO put a condition on any deal with Musk's Texas fab.
Applied Materials (AMAT) CEO says AI will let the company double revenue without doubling headcount
Applied Materials CEO Gary Dickerson said the company expects to double revenue over the next few years without doubling headcount, as it unveiled its EPIC Center.
Intel (INTC) unveils D-Series AI inference card for existing data centers, with no liquid cooling required
Intel named its Crescent Island chip the Intel GPU D-Series and gave its specs: a stated peak of 1.3 petaflops of FP8, up to 480GB of memory, and 350 watts on air cooling.
Broadcom (AVGO) CEO says capital may be AI's biggest constraint. Intel's (INTC) CEO says the returns have to show up.
Hock Tan and Lip-Bu Tan said in Singapore that financing may become the AI buildout's biggest constraint, even as demand still outruns supply.
Musk says TSMC (TSM) won't run Terafab as Intel (INTC) reaffirms its role
A newsletter had floated TSMC owning and operating the factory. Musk's post left room for a sublease, and TSMC shares fell in early trading.
Applied Materials (AMAT) expands Intel (INTC) AI chip partnership at research center already joined by TSMC
It's Applied's third EPIC Center announcement in about a week. Intel's biggest foundry rival signed on in May.
TSMC (TSM) eyes a Texas chip campus beyond its $265 billion Arizona plan. Musk confirms Terafab talks.
A tax credit's construction-start deadline could decide whether the Texas fabs happen. Musk calls the Terafab talks just discussions.
AMD closed above $1 trillion. Intel jumped in a good day for AI stocks.
AMD closed above $1 trillion for the first time and Intel jumped about 12 percent as falling yields and cheaper oil put the AI trade back on. I sold AMD too early, and I still own Intel.
China built gate-all-around transistors without EUV. A commercial 3nm node has no timetable
China's Institute of Microelectronics says it built working gate-all-around transistors as part of research toward a future 3nm-class process using DUV, not EUV. It is an early lab result, not a manufacturing process, and the institute gave no timetable for a commercial node.
Huawei unveils an 11-chip AI portfolio and says Ascend demand already tops supply (NVDA, AMD, INTC)
Huawei laid out an 11-chip AI infrastructure portfolio at Huawei Connect on September 17, pulled its next Ascend accelerator forward to early 2027, and said domestic demand is already outstripping supply. It is a direct challenge to Nvidia (NVDA), AMD and Intel (INTC).
SK Hynix (SKHY) unit Solidigm is weighing its first US memory plant, with New York in the lead
SK Hynix's US flash-memory unit Solidigm is studying its first American plant, and upstate New York has emerged as a leading candidate, Korean press reported Friday. SK Hynix says no plan is confirmed. Solidigm's only NAND fab today sits in Dalian, China.
America is building chip factories. Samsung and Micron (MU) are struggling to find the workers.
A McKinsey and SEMI Foundation report projects a US chip worker shortfall of 127,000 to 157,000 by 2030. Only 3% of US graduates who take engineering jobs go into semiconductors. The short-term fix is Korean staff on temporary assignment.
SK Hynix (SKHY) is discussing US memory-chip production with Intel (INTC). Leasing its Ohio site is one option.
Reuters reports SK Hynix may lease part of Intel's Ohio plant or form a cloud-backed venture there. Two months ago it denied a report that it wanted to buy the site.
Three AI CEOs asked for a slowdown. Chipmakers sold off worldwide, and cybersecurity stocks went up.
Dario Amodei asked AI labs to slow the pace of capability development, and Sam Altman and Elon Musk agreed. The selloff that followed hit the AI supply chain and bid up the companies that sell defenses against it.
JPMorgan (JPM) has ended its lending to Leopold Aschenbrenner's fund
JPMorgan notified Situational Awareness it would end their lending relationship after the July losses, Reuters reports. Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and Bank of America remain active brokers.
Leopold Aschenbrenner is buying options again through a new broker, six weeks after a 67% portfolio drop
The Financial Times says Situational Awareness is working with Clear Street and rebuilding in AMD, Intel, SK Hynix, SanDisk and CoreWeave using customized flex options. CNBC's list is not the same one.
Nvidia (NVDA) licensed Groq and hired its founder. The DOJ is asking if that sidestepped antitrust review.
The Justice Department is investigating whether Nvidia structured its deal for Groq's inference chip technology to avoid antitrust review, the New York Times reported Wednesday. Nvidia licensed the technology and hired Groq's founder rather than buying the company.
Intel (INTC) heads to the AI Infra Summit September 15 with Crescent Island questions unanswered
Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan takes the main stage at the AI Infra Summit in Santa Clara on Tuesday, September 15, with three more Intel sessions and a booth to follow. The appearance is confirmed. A named customer, a ship date, or a measured performance number for the Crescent Island GPU is not.
Arm (ARM) and Microsoft (MSFT) back Gimlet's $300 million bet on cheaper AI
Gimlet Labs closed a $300 million Series B led by Andreessen Horowitz, with Arm and Microsoft's M12 as new investors, at a $3 billion valuation. It says it has added billions in contracted revenue since March; its last disclosed revenue was $10 million a year.
Nvidia (NVDA) owns $90.7 billion of other companies. Its public stock portfolio has lost $16.4 billion since June 30.
Nvidia's latest 10-Q carries $42.8 billion of marketable equity securities and $47.9 billion of funded private stakes, with $25 billion more committed but not yet paid in. Its June 30 13F positions have given back about $16.4 billion since, and a $105 billion guarantee on an OpenAI data center sits off the balance sheet entirely.