Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang rejected AI extinction warnings as unfounded "doomsday narratives," telling CBS News there is zero chance AI will end the world by 2030. He dismissed calls for AI regulation and restrictions on chip sales to China, arguing existing laws suffice and that American tech companies should compete globally while maintaining national security safeguards.
AMD achieved a 50% performance increase in its chips over two years through gradual improvements. The article examines this progression using Apple Silicon chips (M2 through M5) and Geekbench 6 benchmarks to illustrate the incremental performance gains.
D-Robotics closed a $400 million Series C funding round to expand its Sunrise chip portfolio and develop integrated hardware-software infrastructure for AI robots. The company achieved several-fold revenue growth in H1 2026, with over 8 million Sunrise chip units shipped and adoption by 20+ leading robotics customers. The funding supports product development across humanoid robots, industrial applications, and consumer electronics.
Anderon, an IBM company, finalized a $1 billion CHIPS award from the U.S. Department of Commerce to advance quantum wafer manufacturing capabilities at its Albany, New York foundry. The company has already begun production of quantum wafers and plans to expand to other quantum modalities, supported by IBM's additional $1 billion investment.
Apple has agreed to pay Samsung 30-40% higher prices for RAM and NAND storage chips starting in Q1 2027, with costs rising to nearly $2 per GB for DRAM and $0.33 per GB for NAND. The price increases reflect broader chip shortages driven by AI data center expansion, and it remains unclear whether Apple will pass these costs to consumers or has already factored them into 2026 pricing.
Apple is developing new M-series chips (M6, M7, M8) integrated with AI capabilities. The company is working on AI servers built around the M7 chip to compete with Nvidia, with one server expected in early 2027 and an M7 Ultra potentially arriving by 2029.