OpenAI's $230 Keyboard Lands Amid Apple Lawsuit
OpenAI launched a $230 mechanical keypad for managing Codex coding agents days after Apple sued the company over alleged hardware trade secret theft.
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Apple Sues OpenAI Over Stolen Hardware Secrets
Apple filed suit against OpenAI on July 10, alleging a coordinated scheme to steal iPhone trade secrets through recruiting tactics and unauthorized file downloads.
Meta Moves Iris AI Chip Into Production in September
A Reuters-obtained internal memo reveals Meta will start manufacturing its Iris chip in September, targeting 14 GW of computing capacity by 2027 while cutting NVIDIA and AMD dependency.
ZML Ships a Free LLM Server That Runs on Any Chip
ZML's LLMD inference server runs Llama, Qwen, and Mistral on Nvidia, AMD, TPU, Apple Metal, and Intel Arc from a single binary - for free.
SK Hynix Nasdaq IPO: $28B HBM Bet Prices Thursday
SK Hynix's $28B Nasdaq IPO prices Thursday, putting the dominant supplier of AI high-bandwidth memory in reach of US investors for the first time.
DeepSeek Moves Into Chip Design to Beat Export Controls
DeepSeek is developing its own inference chip, confirmed by Reuters sources - the first semiconductor project in the lab's history, driven by US export controls that cut off China from Nvidia hardware and HBM memory.
Claude Hits Azure GA on NVIDIA's Blackwell Ultra Hardware
Anthropic's Claude models are now generally available in Microsoft Foundry on Azure, running on NVIDIA GB300 Blackwell Ultra NVL72 racks - with vendor numbers claiming 40% faster token generation than H100.
SpaceX AI Device - Real Prototype or Investor Theater?
The WSJ says SpaceX showed investors a Grok-powered AI handset before its IPO. Musk called it false. We examine the hardware stack and what the denial actually means.
Anthropic Eyes Samsung 2nm Chip as Labs Race to Go Custom
Anthropic is in early talks with Samsung to develop its first custom AI chip on a 2nm process, making it the last major frontier lab to enter the custom silicon race.
d-Matrix Corsair - In-Memory Inference Accelerator
d-Matrix Corsair is an SRAM-based in-memory compute ASIC in production since June 2026, targeting 10x faster and 5x more power-efficient LLM inference vs GPU baselines.
OpenAI Jalapeño - Custom LLM Inference ASIC
OpenAI's first custom AI chip, co-designed with Broadcom on TSMC 3nm, targeting 50% lower inference cost than GPU alternatives.
Etched Exits Stealth With Working Chip and $1B in Orders
Transformer ASIC startup Etched comes out of stealth with first-pass silicon on TSMC N4P, $800M raised, and more than $1B in signed customer contracts.
