GlobalFoundries making more chips designed for spacecraft, satellites

BAE Systems announced that week that GlobalFoundries has developed radiation-hardened chips for the company.
TechSpot

Chip foundry market hit $320 billion in 2025, driven by AI demand

Rich Wafers: Foundry corporations have become the cornerstone of today's computing industry. They can etch and manufacture the complex chip blueprints Nvidia and other Big Tech players develop in ...
The Next Web

Intel joins Musk’s Terafab as foundry partner in $25B chip megaproject

In short: Intel has signed on as the primary foundry partner for Elon Musk’s Terafab, a $25 billion joint venture between Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI targeting a terawatt of AI compute per year, handing ...

Half the Tech Industry Is Reportedly Looking at Samsung to Build Their Next Chips

The post Half the Tech Industry Is Reportedly Looking at Samsung to Build Their Next Chips appeared first on Android Headlines.
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Samsung profit surges over eightfold to beat estimates as AI boom fuels memory chip crunch

Samsung posted record profit growth, driven by demand for AI-linked memory. Chip shortages lifted prices, boosting earnings across the memory segment. The AI boom strengthened Samsung’s position in ...
Ars Technica

Intel is going all-in on advanced chip packaging

Sixteen miles north of Albuquerque, in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, an Intel chip plant sits on more than 200 acres of land. The site was established in the 1980s, part of it built on top of a sod farm. In ...
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GlobalFoundries Opens Quantum Processor Unit Foundry: $375M CHIPS Award Targets QPU Scale-Up Bottleneck

GlobalFoundries launched Quantum Technology Solutions on Thursday, May 21, announcing a dedicated quantum manufacturing business unit at the same moment the U.S. Department of Commerce unveiled $2.013 ...
CNBC

Intel shares soar on Apple chip deal report. Here's why it signals a total pivot for chipmaking

Apple and Intel have reportedly reached a preliminary agreement that would see Intel make some chips for Apple devices. If completed, the deal would be the most notable vote of confidence yet for ...
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Engineers just built a computer chip that runs on light instead of electricity — moving data with photons to slash the power-hungry bills AI models are running up

A computer chip that processes data as pulses of light rather than electrical signals has, for the first time, run a suite of real AI workloads on a single device. In results published in Nature in ...
TechNode

Samsung chairman secretly visits MediaTek seeking to trade memory chips for foundry orders

According to Taiwanese media outlets including DigiTimes, Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Jae-yong reportedly led a senior executive team on May 21 in a discreet visit to the headquarters of MediaTek ...
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In April 2025, Intel was trading at $18. Fourteen months later it hit an all-time high. The turnaround was not built by Intel alone.

Intel hit an all-time high after Apple began foundry talks, extending a 330 per cent rally since the US government took a 10 per cent stake. The turnaround was driven less by Intel’s manufacturing and ...
Wired

The Ridiculously Nerdy Intel Bet That Could Rake in Billions

Sixteen miles north of Albuquerque, in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, an Intel chip plant sits on more than 200 acres of land. The site was established in the 1980s, part of it built on top of a sod farm. In ...