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Nvidia took the rare step for the company of showing results from comparative tests of its new server processor Vera and a competing solution from AMD — Epyc Turin, Bloomberg reports. The deployment of new Vera Rubin servers is under close scrutiny from investors and analysts who are concerned about possible delays and production issues, the agency explains.

Taiwanese company TSMC, the world’s largest contract chipmaker, said on Monday that its revenue in the second quarter rose by 36% year-on-year. During the reporting period, it reached a record high amid demand for artificial intelligence technologies, Reuters reports.

IBM plans to put into operation by September in Amaravati (India) an IBM Quantum System Two system with a 156-qubit Heron processor. The installation will be one of the first two physical quantum machines of the company deployed in the country. The project will be a key milestone of the Andhra Pradesh state initiative “Quantum Valley” and is tied to an agreement between the regional government, IBM, and Tata Consultancy Services.

Software developer for military and civilian needs Palantir published on July 1 on the social network X nine thoughts about “AI sovereignty.” Business Insider called it the company’s manifesto. It urged businesses to store data within their own structures rather than outsourcing it to institutions that Palantir deems unreliable.

ИИ-infrastructure and modern communication systems for drones depend on a single resource—fiber-optic cable. Due to a shortage, the cost of some brands has risen by 500%, and China, which controls more than half of the global market for these materials, has gained the ability to set supply terms. Other countries are trying to increase their own capacity, but so far they are clearly lagging behind.

Shares of International Business Machines (New York: IBM) rose by about 5% in premarket trading on Thursday after the company announced a breakthrough in chip technology with a process of less than 1 nanometer.
“IBM’s new chip with a process of less than 1 nm packs nearly 100 billion transistors into a die the size of a fingernail — almost double the density of IBM’s 2-nm chip unveiled in 2021,” the company said in a statement.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has ramped up its collaboration with Intel, IQM, Qblox, Quantinuum, QuEra Computing, Quantum Machines, Rigetti, and Riverlane to push forward hybrid quantum-classical computing.
The company plans to integrate the HPE Cray supercomputing platform with quantum processors, control systems, and error correction solutions. Partners will set up test benches for joint algorithm development, software compatibility checks, and performance evaluation of hybrid systems.

Shares of VisionWave Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:VWAV) popped 3.3% on Monday after the company announced it has filed a preliminary patent application in the U.S. for its SDNN™ (Symbiotic Deep Neural Network) technology — its proprietary neural network architecture.
The tech company stated that the architecture is designed to support multi-source data fusion in real-time, adaptive analytics, and coordinated management of distributed intelligent platforms in the realms of defense, security, counter-drone operations, robotics, and civil infrastructure.

Hyundai Motor is gearing up to buy out the remaining stake of SoftBank Group in Boston Dynamics, making it a fully owned subsidiary, according to the South Korean publication Maeil Business Newspaper on Friday.
According to the publication, citing unnamed industry sources, Hyundai will shell out $325 million for the remaining 9.65% shares of the robotics company held by SoftBank.

AMD on Thursday unveiled its first AI server rack Helios, the Venice server processor, and the Instinct MI455 AI chip at a product presentation for AI data centers in San Francisco. In doing so, AMD is aiming to capture the rapidly growing AI computing solutions market that, according to the company’s own estimates, will reach $2 trillion by 2030, Bloomberg reports. The company also announced a partnership with chipmaker Cerebras Systems. And OpenAI has confirmed its plans to buy Helios servers “at enormous scale,” the agency notes. Nevertheless, AMD shares fell 2.3% in Thursday trading.

After last week’s dive into the “bearish” zone, on July 21 chipmaker shares bounced off local lows and are rising by more than 5% on Tuesday. Support for the sector, among other factors, came from a report by Japan’s Nikkei that TSMC—the world’s largest contract chipmaker—plans to raise prices for some of its products and services by up to 10% in 2027, Bloomberg noted.

Samsung Electronics America plans to cut 739 jobs in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, in connection with preparations to relocate the company’s headquarters in the U.S. to Texas. Reuters reports this, citing a WARN notice filed with the relevant state authorities.
The affected unit is responsible for sales and marketing in the United States of smartphones, televisions, displays, and household appliances for Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

Shares of Alphabet Inc. fell 2.3% on Thursday after the Bloomberg report, which said that the company’s Google division is behind schedule by several months in releasing Gemini 3.5 Pro — its most powerful flagship AI model.
According to sources familiar with the situation, the delay is due to the fact that Google is spending additional time improving the model’s capabilities, especially in the area of programming. The current situation has caused dissatisfaction among engineers, AI researchers, and Google managers: many of them are concerned that the company could risk losing its position in the market while competitors — Anthropic and OpenAI — are releasing models that outperform Gemini in terms of capabilities.

OpenAI security chief Johannes Hiedecke is leaving the company after an internal reorganization in which the security and research teams were combined, the outlet Wired reported on Saturday.
According to the publication’s material, Mark Chen, director of research, told employees that OpenAI’s security teams will now report to the vice president for research and head of AI alignment, Mira Gleese, whose authority has been expanded to oversee both research and safety.

Prices for high-bandwidth memory (HBM) could more than double by 2027 due to rapidly growing demand for artificial intelligence and structural production-capacity constraints. According to a DigiTimes report from Friday, industry sources indicate that prices for next-generation HBM4 memory could rise to $4–$5 per gigabit or higher, compared with about $2 in the second half of 2026.

Foxconn, officially known as Hon Hai Precision Industry (TW:2317), recorded a sharp increase in revenue in the second quarter thanks to strong demand for artificial intelligence products, but the company warned of risks from geopolitical instability.
Foxconn’s revenue for April–June rose by 39.8% year-on-year and totaled T$2.513 trillion ($78.71 billion), the world’s largest contract electronics manufacturer said in a statement on Sunday.

UBS confirmed ASML Holding as its top pick among European manufacturers of technology equipment ahead of the release of its second-quarter results, citing sustained demand driven by the development of artificial intelligence, which extended the semiconductor market cycle beyond initial expectations.

Blue Origin announced a shift to a new launch configuration after the New Glenn rocket explosion last month and plans to resume flights before the end of the year. Instead of restoring the damaged launch pad, the company will implement a hybrid horizontal-vertical system.
Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp said in a note on the company website that Blue Origin «does not restore the former table» and instead will use existing infrastructure developed for a larger New Glenn version called «9x4».

The European aerospace group Airbus will receive a €3 billion loan from the European Investment Bank (EIB). The size of the loan is the highest in the bank’s history, the EIB said on Monday, 29 June. On the same day, both parties signed an agreement in Brussels on the first tranche of €1 billion.

The Italian antitrust authority on Friday opened an investigation into Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ: MSFT) over alleged unfair business practices related to raising the price of Microsoft 365 subscription.
The regulator said that Microsoft did not properly notify consumers that Copilot and Designer artificial intelligence tools had been integrated into the Microsoft 365 service.