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SK hynix shipped 12-high HBM4E samples on June 18, months ahead of its own second-half timeline, three weeks after Samsung's May 29 shipment.

The startup says its 3nm Napier inference chip turns matrix multipliers into adders, with commercial sales of a 72-chip system slated for the second half of 2027.

Qualcomm unveiled the Snapdragon C Platform for entry-tier Windows laptops starting at $300, with Acer, HP, and Lenovo as launch partners and devices expected later this year.

d-Matrix says its Corsair inference accelerator is in full production, pairing on-chip SRAM with GPUs to cut AI response times by more than 10x.

A Nature study reports stacking three silicon transistor layers with 98-100% yields using bonding temperatures no higher than 200°C, offering a route to denser chips without smaller transistors.

At the June 14-18 VLSI Symposium in Honolulu, TSMC details A16 with backside direct-contact power delivery, claiming 8-10% more speed or 15-20% less power versus N2P.

At the Ubuntu Summit, SpacemiT showed its 16-core Key Stone K3 running Ubuntu responsively, with a Banana Pi board priced at roughly twice a Raspberry Pi 5.

Intel's data-center inference GPU scales to 480GB of LPDDR5X in a 350W air-cooled PCIe card, sidestepping the HBM shortage that constrains Nvidia and AMD accelerators.

BIS clarified on May 31 that advanced-computing export licenses are required for any entity whose ultimate parent is headquartered in Country Group D:5 or Macau, even when located outside.

Intel's first 18A server chip ships with up to 288 Darkmont E-cores and 576 MB of L3 cache, claiming a 30% per-thread lead over AMD's 192-core EPYC 9965.

NVIDIA officially unveiled the RTX Spark Superchip at Computex 2026 — a 20-core Arm Grace CPU paired with a Blackwell GPU and up to 128GB of unified memory, launching in laptops from six OEMs in fall 2026.

AMD's 6th Gen EPYC 'Venice' is ramping on TSMC 2nm — the first HPC chip on the node — with 256 Zen 6 cores and 1.6 TB/s memory bandwidth.