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TikTok owner ByteDance is reportedly developing its own custom AI CPUs — company looks to ease China's dependence on US chipmakers

… Nvidia's recently unveiled Vera chips show great promise, but once again, we're talking about a U.S. firm. Although Bytedance is best known for TikTok, the world's leading short-form video app, the company runs China's AI chatbot app Doubao and has a handful of AI models under its belt. …

May 29, 2026 · Bruno Ferreira
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AI is starting to out-design chip engineers in narrow areas as LLMs accelerate software chip design tool development — "There is still a lot of human guidance" says Berkley researcher

… As AI makes certain parts of the process dramatically cheaper and faster, Nikolić expects engineers to use that freed-up capacity to explore territory they wouldn't otherwise have dared tackle, including the design of the AI chips driving the whole cycle in the first place. …

May 22, 2026 · Chris Stokel-Walker
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New Silicon Motion SM2524XT chip brings 14 GB/s to mainstream SSDs — 6nm DRAMless controller boasts heavy AI PC optimization and slashes KV cache latency

… In fact, KV cache and enhanced AI inference performance are among the key advantages of the new SSD controller platform. “KV Cache has become a critical factor in AI inference performance, driving the need for sustained high random read/write throughput and low-latency data access,” said Nelson Dua… …

May 29, 2026 · Anton Shilov

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SpaceX admits it can't find enough chips for orbital AI yet, requires 'significantly more than are currently available to us' — firm's risk factors in IPO paperwork also says ambitious TeraFab project may not be successful

… "While we expect to construct Terafab to address such supply constraints, Terafab may not be successful, in which case we may not have other sources of sufficient AI chips to meet our orbital AI compute demands," another claim by SpaceX reads. …

May 27, 2026 · Anton Shilov