Chinese AI startup MiniMax just had a huge Hong Kong IPO, valuing the company at $6.5 billion and making its 36-year-old founder, Yan Junjie, worth about $2.4 billion. The company, which spent years building a multi-modal AI model, now boasts 212 million users for products like its Hailuo video gene
CES 2026 was dominated by AI moving into the physical world, from Nvidia’s autonomous vehicle models to AI construction equipment. But oddities like Razer’s AI companion and the return of physical keyboards stole plenty of spotlight, too.
Samsung’s financial fortunes have turned dramatically, with Q4 2025 revenue projected at $64 billion and profits hitting $13.8 billion. A massive surge in memory chip demand, with sales up 34% to $25.9 billion, has propelled the company back to the number one position in the global DRAM market.
Qualcomm has announced the Snapdragon X2 Plus, a new high-end laptop processor positioned below the X2 Elite. It features 6 or 10-core CPU options and could debut in Samsung Galaxy Book models, like a potential Galaxy Book 6 Edge, later in 2026. Laptops using the chip are expected to start around $7
A Texas-based space services firm is teaming up with a specialized semiconductor substrate supplier to build the first dedicated commercial facility for making chips in space. The partnership aims to leverage the microgravity environment of low Earth orbit to produce advanced materials. This follows
Nvidia is restarting production and navigating export licenses for its H200 AI chips destined for China. CEO Jensen Huang describes “very high” demand, with the market representing a potential $50 billion annual opportunity currently excluded from forecasts.
According to Bloomberg Business, the U.S. incursion into Venezuela to extract President Nicolás Maduro and his wife for trial was a blatantly illegal act under international and U.S. law. The operation, coupled with Trump’s stated intent to “run” Venezuela for its oil, represents a direct assault on
Qualcomm is launching a scaled-back, more affordable version of its laptop processor called the Snapdragon X2 Plus. The chip, announced at CES, comes in 6-core and 10-core variants and features a powerful NPU for AI tasks. It’s part of a broader push to grow Arm-based chips in the PC market, which c
Despite U.S. export restrictions, a significant shipment of NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 5090 graphics cards has been spotted in China. The GPUs, from partners MSI and Gigabyte, appear to be the original banned versions, not the legally exported “v2” models. This highlights the ongoing challenge of controll
Baidu’s AI chip subsidiary Kunlunxin has confidentially filed for a Hong Kong IPO, a move that could spin off the unit valued around $3 billion. Meanwhile, supply chain leaks point to OpenAI and Jony Ive’s “Gumdrop” project, which may include an AI-powered pen and audio device, with manufacturing li
