Hardware
Chips, accelerators and the physical substrate AI runs on.
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Meta sells up to $37.5bn of new shares to pay for AI, with NVIDIA putting in $3bn
Meta has priced up to $37.5bn of new stock to fund its AI spending, with NVIDIA investing $3bn and a further $60bn…
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Banks and Blackstone line up $63bn to buy Broadcom chips for Anthropic to lease
A new financing vehicle will buy Broadcom AI accelerators and networking gear and lease them to Anthropic, with deliveries due from 2027.
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Nvidia uses GTC Berlin to pitch Europe on AI factories in a box, humanoid robots and robotaxis
At GTC Berlin, Nvidia unveiled pre-built AI factories that ship in containers, a reference humanoid robot and new European self-driving partners, but…
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Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme
Qualcomm’s top Windows PC chip, with an 80 TOPS Hexagon NPU.
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Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 Ultra
Qualcomm’s PCIe inference card for generative AI, which it says runs 100B-parameter models on one card.
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MediaTek Dimensity 9600 Pro
MediaTek’s first 2nm flagship adds LPDDR6 and the NPU 1090.
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Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6
Qualcomm split its 2026 flagship into two tiers; this top tier moves to 2nm with an NPU rated 35% faster than the…
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Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6
The second tier of Qualcomm’s 2026 flagship, also on 2nm, with an NPU rated 14% faster than the 8 Elite Gen 5.
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Tesla FSD Computer (HW3)
Tesla’s first in-house self-driving chip, with two neural network accelerators per chip.
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Tesla Dojo D1
Tesla’s in-house training chip for its Dojo supercomputer.