Etched, a new startup with a team of 400+ engineers, has announced its latest AI solution, the Frontier Inference Clusters. Etched Comes Out of Stealth To Unveil Its Frontier Inference Clusters, Achieves Successful A0 Tapeout & On-Track For $1B+ In AI Contracts What happens when 400+ Engineers from leading firms such as NVIDIA, Google, Broadcom, TSMC, SK Hynix, and more come together? Well, Etched happens. This is a new AI startup who are co-designing chips, racks, software, and advanced manufacturing methods for frontier models. The company promises best-in-class throughput, latency, cost, and power efficiency for both prefill and decode workloads, […]

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Qualcomm is unveiling its breakthrough for the AI data center market called HBC (High-Bandwidth Compute), to break the memory wall. Qualcomm's HBC Is A Memory Accelerator That Is Stacked Under DRAM, Offering A Major Boost Versus Standard SRAM & HBM Configurations At its Investors Day 2026, Qualcomm unveiled HBC under its Dragonfly brand, an innovative technology that aims to offer a major boost in memory capacity and bandwidth. The HBC architecture deploys a purpose-built & near-memory solution that bonds compute with boosted memory bandwidth in a 3D stacked chip design. With this, Qualcomm aims to solve the memory bottlenecks that […]

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Anthropic, the creators of Claude AI, are reportedly in early talks with a UK startup whose SRAM tech can boost AI inference by 100x & reduce costs by 10x. Anthropic Reportedly In Early Talks With Fractile, A UK-based Startup Working on the fusion architecture as an AI Inference Booster Currently, Anthropic sources its chips from various companies, including NVIDIA, Google, and Amazon. This trio allows the company to keep running its AI infrastructure without major concerns that are often associated with relying on a single chipmaker. But as compute demand intensifies in the AI space, many AI firms are now […]

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