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Big Tech strategy, semiconductor supply chains and the money behind the technology industry, reported by The Silicon Ledger.
Xbox is now selling streaming access by the hour to players who own games but don't subscribe to Game Pass, at rates between 24 and 40 cents per hour.
Intel has begun equipping its Arizona fabrication plant and is advancing its Ohio manufacturing complex, positioning itself ahead of competitors in domestic semiconductor production.
As demand for AI infrastructure outpaces available supply, Dell Technologies is shifting its sales strategy away from price negotiations toward collaborative long-term planning with customers, according to executives at the company's New York Symposium.
As artificial intelligence workloads shift from training to inference, neocloud providers are targeting underserved small and midsize businesses that hyperscalers have deprioritized in GPU allocation.
During an earnings call, SpaceX leadership outlined a shift toward data center deployment and revealed plans to attempt catching both stages of Starship on the next test flight, targeting a weekly launch cadence by mid-2027.
The 4TB Samsung 990 Pro, once commanding $1,099, now sells for $799.90 following a 27% price cut that reflects cooling demand in the memory market after the AI boom.
Elon Musk announced that ASML and other semiconductor equipment makers are accelerating shipments to Terafab, the joint Tesla-SpaceX chip manufacturing venture, to meet an ambitious timeline for volume production in Texas by late 2028.
The President has called for artificial intelligence data center operators to distribute energy dividends to surrounding neighborhoods, aiming to offset the infrastructure's burden on local power grids and win public support for facility expansion.
