GPUs, accelerators, memory, foundries, export rules.
Microsoft showed a version of Windows in which an AI coding model and parts of Copilot run on the computer itself instead of in the cloud, and a security tool, Microsoft Execution Containers, that limits which data an AI agent can reach. It also presented…
Finance angle The finance angle is where AI work gets paid for. A model that runs on the laptop shifts spending from cloud usage to the device: Nvidia earns from the chip, Microsoft from the hardware and Windows, and the buyer pays once instead of per query. The price puts the machine against Apple's MacBook Pro, which the report…
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The union at Micron Technology's Taoyuan site in Taiwan said 1,994 members, 99% of those who voted, backed a strike. It wants a permanent profit-sharing arrangement and says the T$1 million (about $31,386) cash bonus Micron announced in September does not…
Finance angle Taiwan is where Micron makes much of its DRAM and the high-bandwidth memory that goes into AI servers, so a stoppage there would reach Nvidia-based server supply chains at a time when memory is already short. The money at issue is labour cost: a permanent share of operating profit paid out as bonuses would come out…
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SpaceX is looking to raise about $40 billion to pay for a large purchase of Nvidia artificial-intelligence chips, according to a Financial Times report relayed by EconoTimes. The plan is roughly $10 billion of bank loans and $30 billion of investment-grade…
Finance angle The finance angle: about $40 billion of new borrowing — $10 billion in loans and $30 billion in investment-grade debt — that flows almost entirely to Nvidia as chip revenue, with private-credit firms such as Apollo and Pimco earning the interest. SpaceX shareholders carry the debt; rental income from Anthropic and…
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AMD chief executive Lisa Su told reporters in Taipei on October 6 that the company raised its supply through 2026 and plans a substantial further increase in 2027. She said demand looks very high for the next several years, that AMD is planning its wafer…
Finance angle AMD's sales of AI processors are limited by how many advanced wafers, packaging slots and memory chips it can secure, not by orders, so supply commitments are what turn demand into revenue. More AMD volume means more business for TSMC (wafers), Foxconn (server assembly) and Samsung and SK Hynix (high-bandwidth…
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At its investor day on October 6, chip designer Marvell Technology raised its revenue forecast for fiscal 2028 to about $20 billion, above the $18.2 billion analysts had pencilled in. It now projects $12 billion of custom-chip revenue in fiscal 2029, up from…
Finance angle The money comes from cloud companies designing their own AI processors instead of buying only Nvidia's: Marvell and Broadcom are the two main design partners, and data centres already bring in 72% of Marvell's sales. A Google arrangement of up to $120 billion through fiscal 2033 is conditional on performance…
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Nasdaq-listed AI chipmaker Cerebras Systems rose as much as 11% in early trading on Monday and, by Yahoo Finance's account, finished the day about 9% higher. OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman had posted that Cerebras is a close partner and that the two…
Finance angle OpenAI is Cerebras's anchor customer: under an agreement announced in January and valued at $10 billion, Cerebras is contracted to supply 750 megawatts of computing capacity through 2028. Doubt about that single relationship therefore goes straight to Cerebras's revenue visibility, which is why one post moved the…
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Elon Musk confirmed on October 3 that TSMC is in discussions with Terafab, the Tesla and SpaceX chipmaking venture in Texas, about working together on manufacturing there. He described the talks as early, with nothing agreed. Two structures are being…
Finance angle The finance angle is who gets paid to build and run a plant whose first phase carries about $16.8 billion of funding. Intel's foundry business has few large outside customers, and Terafab was one of the names attached to its 14A process; a role for TSMC would put the market leader inside the same project, which is…
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Foxconn, the Taiwanese contract manufacturer that assembles AI servers as well as consumer electronics, reported third-quarter revenue of T$3.03 trillion (about $95.4 billion), up 47% from a year earlier and above the LSEG SmartEstimate of T$2.83 trillion.…
Finance angle The finance angle: Foxconn's monthly sales are an early, hard number on what cloud companies are actually paying for AI hardware, weeks before the chip designers report. Revenue of T$3.03 trillion in a quarter, T$200 billion above the consensus figure, says orders for AI server racks were still being delivered at…
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Firmus Grid, an Australian AI data-centre operator backed by Nvidia and Blackstone, plans to allocate roughly half the shares in its initial public offering to existing shareholders, Investing.com reported, citing Bloomberg. The company is seeking up to…
Finance angle At up to A$5.5 billion the sale would exceed Medibank's 2014 float of just under A$5 billion, among the largest Australian listings. The money goes to GPU infrastructure for Firmus's first data centre in Batam, Indonesia, so much of it flows on to chip suppliers, Nvidia first among them, which is both a shareholder…
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Broadcom is assembling a financing package of about $60 billion to pay for AI chips and computing capacity for Anthropic, according to a Bloomberg report carried by the publisher. It is described as a $42 billion Class A senior secured tranche arranged by a…
Finance angle The finance angle is who carries the bill for AI compute. Per the report, Broadcom agreed to lend Anthropic up to $42 billion, and Anthropic has committed $125.2 billion over five years for tensor processing unit capacity. The chip supplier is in effect financing its own customer, with banks and private credit taking…
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Tencent has reportedly signed a five-year agreement, worth about $7 billion, to lease roughly 100,000 advanced AI chips housed in several Oracle data centres in Southeast Asia, with around 30% paid upfront. It is described as Tencent's largest overseas…
Finance angle The finance angle: about $7 billion over five years, roughly $2.1 billion of it upfront, would flow to Oracle's cloud business from a single customer, for hardware that Nvidia could not sell into China directly. The cost shows on Tencent's side: its second-quarter capital spending rose 176% to RMB 52.8 billion and…
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Micron reported fiscal fourth-quarter revenue of $54.23 billion, against $41.46 billion in the previous quarter and $11.32 billion a year earlier. Full-year revenue was $133.19 billion, compared with $37.38 billion in fiscal 2025, and full-year GAAP net…
Finance angle Memory has become one of the scarcest inputs in AI servers, and Micron's accounts show who is collecting: quarterly revenue of $54.23 billion is nearly five times the $11.32 billion of a year earlier, and full-year net income of $84.97 billion is more than twice the prior year's revenue. The payers are cloud…
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Nvidia's board authorised a further $150 billion of share repurchases, the largest increase any company has announced and above Apple's $110 billion in 2024. Total buyback capacity is now $235 billion, which Nvidia plans to use through fiscal 2028. The…
Finance angle The $235 billion is cash earned from AI chip sales to cloud companies being returned to shareholders rather than spent on capacity or acquisitions. It comes while Nvidia's shares, up just over 20% this year, trail AMD (more than doubled) and Intel (more than tripled) as competition in AI chips grows, and with the…
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Oracle reported fiscal first-quarter revenue of $19.3 billion, up 30%. Cloud revenue rose 62% to $11.6 billion, with cloud infrastructure revenue up 121% to $7.4 billion. Remaining performance obligations were $664 billion, $209 billion more than a year…
Finance angle Oracle's $664 billion backlog is revenue its customers, largely AI developers, have contracted but not yet paid, and it is 34 times the quarter's $19.3 billion of revenue. To deliver it Oracle spent $28.499 billion on capex in one quarter, more than its total revenue, leaving free cash flow at negative $5 billion.…
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Broadcom reported revenue of $29.6 billion for its fiscal third quarter, up 86% from a year earlier. AI semiconductor revenue was $16.7 billion, up 221% on the year and 54% on the previous quarter. The company guided fourth-quarter revenue to about $34.8…
Finance angle Broadcom designs custom AI accelerators and networking chips for large cloud and AI companies, so its $16.7 billion of AI chip revenue is those customers' spending on alternatives and complements to Nvidia's processors. Because manufacturing is outsourced, mainly to foundries such as TSMC, Broadcom spent $0.5 billion…
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AMD reported second-quarter revenue of $11.5 billion and net income of $2.3 billion. Data Center segment revenue was $6.7 billion, up 107% from a year earlier. The company guided third-quarter revenue to approximately $13 billion, plus or minus $300 million,…
Finance angle AMD's $6.7 billion of data-centre revenue is small beside Nvidia's, but a 107% growth rate and an Anthropic commitment of up to 2 gigawatts of MI450 GPUs show large AI buyers adding a second chip supplier. For AI labs and cloud providers that is leverage on price and supply; for AMD it is the base for a guided $13…
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Meta reported second-quarter revenue of $60.80 billion, up 28% from a year earlier. Capital expenditures including principal payments on finance leases were $31.08 billion, and free cash flow was $784 million. The company said it anticipates 2026 capital…
Finance angle Meta funds its AI build-out from advertising cash flow rather than cloud contracts, and the quarter shows how much of it that now absorbs: $31.08 billion of capex left $784 million of free cash flow on $60.80 billion of revenue. The $130-145 billion planned for 2026 goes to suppliers of AI chips, servers, networking…
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Alphabet reported revenue of $119.8 billion for the three months to June, up 24% from $96.4 billion a year earlier. Google Cloud revenue climbed 82% to $24.8 billion and its operating income more than tripled to $8.8 billion, with the cloud backlog at $514…
Finance angle Alphabet's capex guidance of up to $205 billion for 2026 is money paid largely to chip, server, networking and construction suppliers, and the $44.9 billion spent in one quarter was enough to turn free cash flow to negative $5.9 billion. On the earning side, Google Cloud's $24.8 billion of quarterly revenue and $514…
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TSMC reported second-quarter revenue of $40.2 billion, up 34% from a year earlier and 12% from the previous quarter, with net income up 77% to NT$706.6 billion ($21.9 billion). The chipmaker raised its full-year outlook to dollar revenue growth of slightly…
Finance angle TSMC makes the advanced chips designed by Nvidia, AMD, Broadcom and Apple, so its $60-64 billion capex budget is revenue for equipment makers such as ASML and a gauge of how much AI chip supply can grow. The extra $100 billion for Arizona, for a US total of $265 billion, shifts more of that spending onto US soil.…
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ASML reported second-quarter net sales of €9.3 billion and net income of €2.9 billion. It guided third-quarter sales to between €11.0 billion and €12.0 billion with a gross margin of 55% to 57%, and said it now sees full-year 2026 sales of €43 billion to €45…
Finance angle ASML is the only supplier of the EUV lithography machines used for leading-edge AI chips, so its guidance of €43-45 billion in 2026 sales shows how much of chipmakers' capital spending reaches Europe's largest technology company. The buyers paying for these tools are foundries and memory makers such as TSMC, Samsung,…
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