ai-chips

Cerebras plans to sell 28 million shares at $115-$125 each, aiming for a $26.6 billion valuation. The AI chipmaker's deep ties to OpenAI include a $20 billion compute deal.

Intel joins Elon Musk's Terafab project as foundry partner —$25B AI chip manufacturing initiative bringing together SpaceX, Tesla, and xAI. Vertical integration strategy aims to reduce dependency on NVIDIA and TSMC.

Tesla recruits chip engineers at $330K salaries for its Terafab project, targeting computing power 50x current global AI capacity —an ambition even TSMC hasn't achieved.

Kandou AI has raised $225 million in Series A funding led by SoftBank and Synopsys to tackle AI's memory wall problem with chip-to-chip interconnect technology, betting that copper interconnects can outlast the optical revolution.

Arm has announced its first own semiconductors, the Arm AGI CPU, targeting agentic AI workloads with double the performance per watt of Intel and AMD x86 alternatives. Meta, OpenAI, and Cerebras are among the first customers.