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The AI funding scare just took the chip index to its worst day in four months
It wasn't demand that broke — it was the question of who pays for it.
Tenstorrent raises $1.5B at $6.2B to take the RISC-V fight to Nvidia
Jim Keller's Tenstorrent just raised $1.5 billion at a $6.2 billion valuation — more than double its December 2024 mark — with a cap table full of public-market crossover money. After reported Qualcomm takeover talks at $8–10B produced no deal, this raise is the independence play.
Tenstorrent raises $1.5B at $6.2B — the biggest bet yet on life after Nvidia
While public AI hardware stocks were logging their worst week of the era, private capital wrote the year's biggest alternative-compute check: $1.5 billion for Jim Keller's Tenstorrent, at more than double its valuation of ten months ago. The post-Nvidia ladder just got very real funding.
Beijing drafts its own AI export controls — model weights are now a strategic asset
China proposes to control exports of frontier model weights, AI agents and chip design know-how — a mirror image of Washington's regime, with one elegant asymmetry: open-source models are exempt, and API access doesn't count as an export. The AI stack just got balkanized in both directions.
Samsung wins Nvidia's next-gen HBM — and TSMC builds the part that matters
Samsung landed a place in Nvidia's next-generation custom HBM program — on the condition that the base dies come off TSMC's 3nm line. Nvidia is standardizing the HBM supply chain around its favorite foundry, and Samsung's own fab gets cast as the backup.
The AI hardware rout deepens: SOX logs its longest losing streak since 2008
Chips just had their worst week of the AI era: the SOX's longest losing streak since 2008, a circuit breaker in Seoul, and double-digit losses from Nvidia to SK Hynix. Underneath the rate scare, though, Friday's flows say the capex thesis is being bought, not buried.
The chip squeeze tightens: Taiwan criminalises AI chip smuggling to China
Taiwan is putting AI servers and advanced chips on its controlled-exports list — making smuggling to China a criminal offence — while Washington blocks AMD's China-specific chip and Nvidia's China share collapses to 34%. The two-track chip world just got legal teeth.