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Google Turns to Samsung for Future AI Chip as Capacity Tightens

By Qianer Liu · Jun 11, 2026 6:00am PDT · 1 comment
Google is considering giving Samsung Electronics a crucial role in making a component of one of its most advanced future AI chips, as the ongoing manufacturing capacity crunch pushes chip firms to look for suppliers beyond Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. The U.S. tech giant is in talks with Samsung to manufacture part of a next-generation... Google is considering giving Samsung Electronics a crucial role in making a component of one of...
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Demand from Alibaba and Other Giants Boosts China’s Homegrown Memory Suppliers

By Qianer Liu · Mar 5, 2026 6:00am PST
Chinese tech heavyweights including Alibaba Group, ByteDance and Tencent Holdings are turning to domestic chipmakers to ease the pain from a deepening global shortage of memory chips, according to four people with direct knowledge of the matter. The three companies are in talks to buy more standard memory chips—known as DRAM, or dynamic... Chinese tech heavyweights including Alibaba Group, ByteDance and Tencent Holdings are turning to...
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Marvell In Advanced Talks to Buy Celestial AI in Multibillion Deal

By Valida Pau and Anissa Gardizy · Dec 1, 2025 8:24pm PST
Marvell is in advanced talks to buy Santa Clara-based chip startup Celestial AI in a cash-and-stock deal worth several billion dollars, according to people with knowledge of the deal. Under the deal being discussed, Marvell would pay several billion dollars upfront for the startup, which has yet to generate any revenue, according to... Marvell is in advanced talks to buy Santa Clara-based chip startup Celestial AI in a...
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China’s CXMT Makes Breakthrough in Advanced Memory Chips

By The Information Staff · Aug 31, 2026 6:00am PDT
China’s leading memory-chip maker, ChangXin Memory Technologies, has begun producing advanced high-bandwidth memory in small quantities, a milestone that could ease a key constraint on the country’s development of homegrown AI processors. CXMT is making HBM3E, an advanced type of high-bandwidth memory used in many of today’s leading AI... China’s leading memory-chip maker, ChangXin Memory Technologies, has begun producing advanced...