Fortinet becomes Intel 4’s first foundry customer, following firewall ASIC deal — CEO Lip-Bu Tan’s promised foundry wins begin to surface, but on a mature node

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Meteor Lake is aging out of Intel’s lineup as 18A-based Panther Lake ramps through 2026, which leaves open the question of what fills Intel 4 capacity next. A multi-generation firewall ASIC program is a reasonable answer…

Z.ai powers up a 1-gigawatt AI data center built entirely on Chinese chips, report claims — GLM developer now runs multiple 10,000-chip clusters with zero Nvidi

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The source didn’t name the chip supplier, but Z.ai’s recent training history points to Huawei. The company released GLM-5.2 in June , an open-weight model purportedly trained entirely on Huawei Ascend accelerators with n…

Anthropic hit with largest-ever $1.5 billion penalty in copyright lawsuit — court says training AI on published material is fair use, but startup’s pirated libr

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TSMC eyes price hikes of up to 25% on chip production services in 2027, report claims — plans to raise baseline prices by 5% to 10% on advanced nodes

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“I am really jealous about memory companies’ 86% gross margin,” said C.C. Wei, chief executive of TSMC, during the company’s earnings call with financial analysts and investors. “86% [margin at memory makers] – 68% [marg…