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Broadcom, AMD, Intel, and Micron Are All Posting Record AI Numbers Right Now. None of Them Are Actually Racing Each Other.
OpenAI's new inference chip just beat Nvidia on the test that matters most to OpenAI. That isn't a story about Nvidia losing -- it's a sign the AI chip market has quietly split into four separate races, and conflating them is why "who beats Nvidia" reads as one question when it's really four.
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The US Makes 12% of the World's Semiconductors, Down From 37% in 1990. Micron — Born in a Boise Basement — Just Broke Ground on the Fab Meant to Help Fix That.
US semiconductor manufacturing has fallen from 37% of world supply in 1990 to about 12% today. Micron, founded in 1978 in the basement of...
Nvidia Made $62.3 Billion in a Single Quarter Selling Chips for Data Centers. Virginia, Home to More of Them Than Anywhere on Earth, Just Considered 61 Bills to Restrict Them.
Loudoun County, Virginia is "Data Center Alley" -- the highest concentration of data centers on the planet. In 2026, the same state ran 6...
One of Supermicro's Three Co-Founders Is Charged With Smuggling $2.5 Billion in AI Servers to China. The Company Itself Was Never Charged.
DOJ unsealed an indictment charging three individuals -- including a Supermicro co-founder who sat on its board until the day charges wer...
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