… There are three main reasons why Apple wants to reduce its reliance on TSMC for chip manufacturing: geopolitical tensions between China and the United States over Taiwan, bringing production to the US as part of the company’s $600 billion investment commitment under Trump’s presidency, and safeguar… …
… The Maia 200 accelerator chip has six 12-layer 36GB stacks for 216GBs of total capacity at 7 terabytes per second of bandwidth. This is the type of hardware that you need to keep big AI models running without them stalling. …
… These companies are critical to the AI infrastructure supply chain, specifically memory, storage, and chip supply chains, which are becoming increasingly important as frontier AI labs compete for compute. …
… Even with these upgrades, the AMD chip powering the Ally X20 hasn't changed from the last release. It houses an AMD Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme processor, 24GB of LPDDR5X RAM, and 1TB of PCIe 4.0 NVMe storage. …
… Other announcements at Build 2026 include the following: Microsoft unveils new security tools for IT admins and developers building AI products Microsoft announces Scout, an OpenClaw-powered personal agent for enterprise customers Microsoft unveils MAI-Thinking-1 reasoning and MAI-Code-1 coding mod… …
… Legal Battle: OpenAI is reportedly considering legal action against Apple after its partnership to integrate ChatGPT into the iPhone fell short and failed to meet expectations. The AI firm reportedly claims that Apple's implementation of ChatGPT confused users and made features harder to use. …
… Already available for in-store verifications, Apple has expanded its partnership with Unidays to process the documents. …