#Hardware

DeepSeek begins designing own AI chip to bypass U.S. export restrictions

AI data centers drove up electricity bills at Ohio's oldest brick factory by 90%

DeepSeek develops its own AI chip for its neural networks — Reuters

Jul 8, 2026·3 min

Samsung disappoints AI expectations — chipmaker stocks slide worldwide

Samsung Electronics disappointed investors with quarterly results that failed to meet inflated AI expectations, triggering a fresh wave of w

01Microsoft launched Foundry Managed Compute: thousands of Hugging Face models with one clickJul 8, 2026·2 min 02Chip Maker Stocks Fall Amid Concerns Over AI Investment ROIJul 7, 2026·2 min 03Chinese Companies Ready to Allocate Up to 46% of AI Chip Budget to Local Suppliers Instead of NvidiaJul 7, 2026·2 min 04AI Data Center Projects Collapse Worldwide Amid Energy Shortages and ProtestsJul 7, 2026·2 min 05NVIDIA Vera CPU Boosts Throughput of AI Factories for Agentic WorkloadsJul 7, 2026·2 min

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Hardware·Habr AI

NVIDIA Dynamo vs Triton Inference Server: what changed for agent inference

NVIDIA released open-source framework Dynamo for agentic LLM inference with KV-cache routing — unlike Triton, not designed for parallel agen

01Samsung increases profit 19-fold on surge of frenzied AI memory demandJul 7, 2026·2 min 02AI Stocks Recover After Sharp Selloff: Investors Snap Up Chipmakers on the DipJul 7, 2026·2 min 03Fable creates first GPU megakernel — experts discuss AI self-improvement loopJul 7, 2026·2 min

Hardware·Habr AI

Yttri 0.86.0-beta.1: First Obsidian Plugin, MLX Engine and Unified Agent Interface

Yttri released version 0.86.0-beta.1: agent moved to unified interface section, plugin platform launched with Obsidian integration, and loca

Jul 7, 2026·3 min

South Korea to Direct Chip Boom Taxes into State Development Fund

Seoul plans to create an investment fund, financed from semiconductor industry tax revenues, to fund the country's long-term economic growth

Hardware·MIT Technology Review

Broadcom Extends Partnership with Apple for Custom Chip Supply Until 2031

Broadcom and Apple signed new multi-year agreements for development and supply of custom chips for iPhone — the contract extended until 2031, the supplier's shares rose 4%.

Jul 7, 2026·3 min

Sam Altman negotiates OpenAI stake for every American family

Chipmaker Stocks Fall Amid Doubts About AI Spending Sustainability

South Korea to Create Future Fund From Semiconductor Boom Tax Revenue

Hardware·MarkTechPost

Meituan Releases LongCat-2.0: Open MoE Model with 1.6 Trillion Parameters and 1 Million Token Context

Csquare Data Center Company from Brookfield Portfolio Preparing for $1.35B IPO

Memory chip maker SK Hynix launches $28 billion US listing marketing drive

Scottish AI Data Center CoreWeave at £8.2bn Cannot Operate on Renewable Energy

Guardian: Britain's AI data center plans 'complete nonsense,' Scottish project questioned

Hardware·Guardian

Newarthill residents: Oakes Energy's AI data center became a scam

Oakes Energy Services promised Lanarkshire residents jobs and "green" benefits from an AI data center — instead, people risk losing their ho