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    HEADLINES AND LAUNCHES

    AM=
    D TO BUY STARTUP TAALAS FOR NEW AI CHIPS (3 MINUTE READ) [4]=20

    AMD ann=
    ounced a definitive agreement to acquire Toronto-based chip
    startup Taala=
    s to expand its specialized AI inference portfolio.
    Taalas develops custo=
    m silicon architectures that hard-wire individual
    AI model weights direct=
    ly into semiconductor metal layers during
    manufacturing. AMD plans to int=
    egrate Taalas' low-cost,
    ultra-efficient inference technology directly in=
    to its broader
    accelerator roadmap alongside Instinct GPUs.=20

    ANTHRO=
    PIC IS BUILDING AN IN-HOUSE CHIP TEAM FOR CLAUDE (3 MINUTE
    READ) [5]=20
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    Anthropic has officially confirmed the assembly of an in-house chip
    d=
    esign team to engineer custom AI processors tailored for its Claude
    platf=
    orm. By co-designing hardware specifically alongside software
    models, the=
    AI startup aims to slash inference costs, boost execution
    speeds, and op=
    timize scaling for enterprise workloads.=20

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    ENGINEERI=
    NG AND APPLICATIONS

    BLUE ORIGIN TRACES MAY'S NEW GLENN EXPLOSION TO A=
    FAULTY BE-4 ENGINE
    VALVE (3 MINUTE READ) [6]=20

    Blue Origin CEO Dave=
    Limp said the May explosion that destroyed a New
    Glenn rocket during a p=
    relaunch engine test originated at the main
    oxygen valve on one of its BE=
    -4 engines, confirmed through hardware
    recovery and inspection. The fix i=
    s straightforward: small
    modifications to the valve that can be quickly r=
    etrofitted onto
    existing engines, with the company aiming to return New G=
    lenn to
    flight later this year. The BE-4 also powers United Launch Allian=
    ce's
    Vulcan rocket, so ULA has been collaborating with Blue Origin on the=

    investigation. The finding gives both companies a clear, containable
    r=
    oot cause rather than an open-ended engine redesign.=20

    PCIE GEN 6 STOR=
    AGE ARCHITECTURE SHOWCASED (3 MINUTES READ) [7]=20

    Microchip Technology=
    and Micron showcased a high-performance PCIe Gen
    6 storage system demons=
    tration at the Future of Memory and Storage
    conference. Combining Microch=
    ip's 3nm Switchtec PCIe 6.0 fanout
    switches with Micron 9650 NVMe SSDs, t=
    he architecture achieves
    transfer speeds of 64 GT/s per lane=E2=80=94doub=
    ling available bandwidth
    over PCIe 5.0.=20

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    RESEARCH=
    AND PROTOTYPES

    D-WAVE'S DUAL-RAIL QUBIT GATE HITS 99.9% FIDELITY, CU=
    TTING
    ERROR-CORRECTION OVERHEAD (4 MINUTE READ) [8]=20

    D-Wave publish=
    ed research in Nature demonstrating a new two-qubit
    entangling gate for i=
    ts superconducting "dual-rail" qubit
    architecture, which is designed so t=
    he most common quantum errors are
    also the easiest kind to detect and fix=
    . The gate hit roughly 99.9%
    fidelity with fast ~500 nanosecond operation=
    times, while preserving
    native hardware-level error detection, meaning e=
    rrors get caught
    directly by the qubit design rather than requiring extra=
    correction
    circuitry bolted on afterward.=20

    HOW TO SCALE AI ARITHME=
    TIC EFFICIENTLY (4 MINUTE READ) [9]=20

    This technical analysis explores=
    how arithmetic specialization is
    essential for scaling artificial intell=
    igence compute performance. As
    traditional transistor scaling slows down,=
    hardware designers are
    replacing general-purpose IEEE floating-point uni=
    ts with specialized
    arithmetic engines tailored to low-precision represen=
    tations like FP8,
    FP4, and Microscaling (MX) formats. By optimizing numbe=
    r format
    combinations and operation depth directly within silicon arithme=
    tic
    units, modern AI accelerators drastically reduce energy consumption=

    per operation while maximizing throughput without swelling total die
    a=
    rea or power budgets.=20

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    MISCELLANEOUS

    NVIDIA A=
    ND GOOGLE ARE CROWDING TSMC'S N3 NODE, CREATING A RARE
    OPENING FOR INTEL =
    (5 MINUTE READ) [10]=20

    Nvidia's next-gen Rubin GPUs are moving from 4n=
    m to TSMC's 3nm node
    just as Google's TPUs, which are already on N3, plan=
    to stay there,
    while new AI CPUs from Nvidia, Amazon, Microsoft, and Arm=
    are
    converging on the same process simultaneously. TSMC has already hit=

    its planned N3 capacity and is still adding more, warning the node
    cou=
    ld stay "very tight" for years, with three of its four Arizona fabs
    repor=
    tedly already fully booked despite only one being operational,
    driving re=
    ported price hikes of up to 25% for some customers. That
    squeeze creates =
    a real opening for Intel, whose Fab 52 in Arizona just
    entered full produ=
    ction at 40,000 18A wafer starts per month, more
    capacity than TSMC's ori=
    ginal Fab 21 campus.=20

    BREAKING THE MEMORY WALL WITH CXL (4 MINUTE REA=
    D) [11]=20

    The Diligence Stack analyzes how Compute Express Link (CXL)=

    technology breaks the persistent memory wall in high-density AI
    infras=
    tructure. By utilizing PCIe physical interfaces to provide
    memory-semanti=
    c access, CXL enables memory expansion and multi-node
    pooling directly ac=
    ross server clusters. This architecture offloads
    Key-Value caches and mas=
    sive vector databases from constrained GPU
    memory without severe latency =
    penalties. Consequently, data centers
    can eliminate stranded DRAM resourc=
    es, drastically reducing hardware
    costs, and scale memory capacity indepe=
    ndently from fixed CPU channel
    limits.=20

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    UNITREE EYES $7.4B VALUATION AHEAD OF SHANGHAI IPO (3 MINUTE READ)=

    [12]=20

    Chinese humanoid and quadruped robot maker Unitree is expect=
    ed to be
    valued at 50.6-55.9 billion yuan ($7.4-8.2 billion) after its pl=
    anned
    Shanghai IPO, a sharp jump from its 12 billion yuan valuation just=

    last month, according to sponsor Citic Securities.=20

    MOOVE RAISES $=
    250 MILLION TO SCALE ROBOTAXI FLEET INFRASTRUCTURE (5
    MINUTE READ) [13] =


    Moove raised a Series C at a $2.1 billion valuation to build out
    =
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    orchestrate autonomous vehicles continuously.=20

    A REQUIEM FO=
    R OPTANE: INTEL'S KV-CACHE KILLER THAT COULD HAVE EASED
    THE RAM PRICE CRU=
    NCH (4 MINUTE READ) [14]=20

    Intel's discontinued Optane memory, which t=
    hanks to its unmatched
    write endurance and low latency for small random w=
    rites, would have
    been an ideal fit for today's write-intensive LLM KV-ca=
    ching
    workloads.=20

    LUMILENS RAISES $700 MILLION TO REPLACE DATA-CENT=
    ER WIRES WITH LIGHT
    (3 MINUTE READ) [15]=20

    Lumilens emerged from ste=
    alth after securing over $700 million in
    funding, reaching a $5.51 billio=
    n valuation.=20

    TSMC SITTING ON $1B WORTH OF APPLE A20 PRO SOCS DUE TO =
    DRAM DEFICIT
    (3 MINUTE READ) [16]=20

    TSMC is reportedly holding nearl=
    y $1 billion worth of Apple A20 Pro
    processors in inventory that cannot s=
    hip due to severe global mobile
    DRAM shortages.=20

    FRORE CLAIMS LIQUI=
    DJET DROPS NVIDIA RUBIN GPU TEMPERATURES BY 10=C2=B0C
    (3 MINUTE READ) [17=
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    Frore Systems claims its LiquidJet coldplate technology can lower=

    Nvidia Rubin GPU junction temperatures by up to 12=C2=B0C, by etching
    =
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    Walden Robotics, a Toyota Research Institute spinout, emer=
    ged from
    stealth with $300 million in funding at a $1.1 billion valuation=
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