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Jon Swartz is a veteran Silicon Valley journalist with more than three decades of experience covering technology, having worked as a high-tech reporter since 1987. He spent 17 years as USA Today's San Francisco bureau chief covering Silicon Valley trends, before joining Barron's Group as a senior reporter and later serving as MarketWatch's senior reporter covering major technology companies such as Netflix, Facebook and Google. Earlier in his career he also wrote for MacWEEK, Forbes, the San Francisco Chronicle, the New Orleans Times-Picayune, and London's Independent and Times. Swartz has won numerous journalism awards, been named a two-time finalist for the Loeb Awards (business journalism's equivalent of the Pulitzer), and received four Pulitzer Prize nominations; he sits on the board of directors of the San Francisco Press Club. He is co-author of "Zero Day Threat: The Shocking Truth of How Banks and Credit Bureaus Help Cyber Crooks Steal Your Money and Identity" and sole author of "Young Wealth." Swartz now covers Silicon Valley, artificial intelligence and the technology industry as senior content writer at Techstrong Group.

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Alibaba Unveils China’s ‘Most Powerful’ AI Chip Ahead of U.S.-China Summit
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Alibaba Unveils China’s ‘Most Powerful’ AI Chip Ahead of U.S.-China Summit

Alibaba Group introduced its most advanced artificial intelligence (AI) chip to date on Tuesday, as well as ambitious plans to train a massive next-generation AI model. The blitz reflects China’s accelerating push toward technological self-reliance, coming just days ahead of a closely watched summit between Chinese and U.S. leaders. Speaking at Alibaba Cloud’s annual flagship […]

Jon Swartz · Sep 22, 2026 · 3 min

NVIDIA Shares Rise as CEO Jensen Huang Confirms Chip Sales Will Double by 2027
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NVIDIA Shares Rise as CEO Jensen Huang Confirms Chip Sales Will Double by 2027

NVIDIA Corp. CEO Jensen Huang confirmed Thursday that the semiconductor giant expects chip sales to roughly double in 2027 from 2026. Speaking at a technology conference in Scotland, Huang reiterated the aggressive growth trajectory previously outlined to investors during the company’s August earnings call, where management characterized its 70% fiscal 2028 revenue projections as a […]

Jon Swartz · Sep 18, 2026 · 2 min

SK hynix in Exploratory Talks With Intel for First U.S. Chip Manufacturing Presence: Report
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SK hynix in Exploratory Talks With Intel for First U.S. Chip Manufacturing Presence: Report

South Korean memory chipmaker SK hynix is in preliminary talks with Intel Corp. that could result in the company manufacturing semiconductors in the United States for the first time. According to Reuters, citing sources familiar with the discussions, the companies are exploring multiple structures for potential partnership. One scenario involves SK hynix leasing space at […]

Jon Swartz · Sep 16, 2026 · 3 min

Arm Unveils Neoverse CSS N4 Platform, Expands AGI CPU Adoption
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Arm Unveils Neoverse CSS N4 Platform, Expands AGI CPU Adoption

Arm has announced its next-generation Neoverse CSS N4 platform, bringing a massive upgrade in semi-custom compute designs to cloud and data center markets. Built on TSMC’s advanced N3P process, the new platform delivers up to 128 cores per die running at speeds up to 3.8 GHz, effectively doubling the core density of its predecessor. The […]

Jon Swartz · Sep 8, 2026 · 2 min

Trump Weighs Expanded Semiconductor Tariffs to Drive Reshoring, Raising Alarm Over U.S. AI Growth: Report
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Trump Weighs Expanded Semiconductor Tariffs to Drive Reshoring, Raising Alarm Over U.S. AI Growth: Report

The Trump administration is weighing a sweeping expansion of semiconductor tariffs that could extend to laptops, gaming hardware, and data center servers. The preliminary proposal, as reported by POLITICO, aims to pressure tech giants into shifting manufacturing to U.S. soil, but it has sparked intense opposition from industry groups warning of severe economic fallout for […]

Jon Swartz · Aug 27, 2026 · 2 min

Google Inks $12.2B Custom AI Chip Deal with Marvell, Spurring Tech Stock Shift
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Google Inks $12.2B Custom AI Chip Deal with Marvell, Spurring Tech Stock Shift

Marvell Technology Inc. shares spiked nearly 10% following a regulatory filing revealing that Google has secured the option to buy up to $12.2 billion in Marvell stock. The agreement signals a major expansion in their custom silicon partnership as tech titans rush to build cheaper, viable alternatives to NVIDIA Corp.’s dominant artificial intelligence (AI) processors. […]

Jon Swartz · Aug 20, 2026 · 2 min

AMD Challenges NVIDIA’s Dominance with New AI Hardware, Billion-Dollar Partnerships
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AMD Challenges NVIDIA’s Dominance with New AI Hardware, Billion-Dollar Partnerships

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is launching a powerful new lineup of artificial intelligence (AI) data center hardware on Thursday, directly targeting market leader NVIDIA Corp. The news, unveiled at an industry event in San Francisco, centers around AMD’s efforts to capture market share in both AI training and inference, the computational work behind processing queries […]

Jon Swartz · Jul 23, 2026 · 2 min

Agentic AI Shift Driving Data Center Chip Market Toward $1.2 Trillion by 2030: Futurum Report
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Agentic AI Shift Driving Data Center Chip Market Toward $1.2 Trillion by 2030: Futurum Report

The global data center semiconductor market is on track to expand more than fivefold, reaching $1.2 trillion by 2030 as artificial intelligence (AI) hardware demand shifts decisively from model training to agentic inference. According to a five-year forecast from tech research firm The Futurum Group, revenue in the sector hit $241 billion in 2025, a […]

Jon Swartz · Jul 23, 2026 · 2 min

Samsung Negotiates Multimillion-Euro Stake in Mistral AI at $22.8 Billion Valuation
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Samsung Negotiates Multimillion-Euro Stake in Mistral AI at $22.8 Billion Valuation

Samsung Electronics is in advanced talks to make a massive financial bet on Europe’s leading artificial intelligence (AI) startup, Mistral AI, signaling a critical shift in how global semiconductor leaders compete for dominance in the AI hardware supply chain. According to a report from The Financial Times, South Korea’s Samsung is negotiating an investment of […]

Jon Swartz · Jul 22, 2026 · 2 min

AMD Challenges NVIDIA’s AI Monopoly as Microsoft Adopts New Helios System for Azure
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AMD Challenges NVIDIA’s AI Monopoly as Microsoft Adopts New Helios System for Azure

AMD is taking the fight to NVIDIA Corp. to loosen its ironclad grip on the multibillion-dollar artificial intelligence (AI) hardware market. Culminating a decade-long corporate comeback, AMD said Monday that Microsoft Corp. will deploy its highly anticipated Helios rack-scale AI system. Microsoft will integrate Helios into its Azure cloud platform to power frontier model inference, […]

Jon Swartz · Jul 20, 2026 · 2 min

China’s Chip Ambitions Rise as CXMT Launches $10 Billion IPO
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China’s Chip Ambitions Rise as CXMT Launches $10 Billion IPO

Chinese memory chipmaker ChangXin Memory Technologies Inc. is launching a blockbuster initial public offering (IPO) on Shanghai’s tech-focused STAR Board to raise nearly $10 billion, one of the largest in Asian history and a crucial test of investor appetite for China’s burgeoning artificial intelligence (AI) supply chain. The Hefei-based DRAM (dynamic random-access memory) champion has […]

Jon Swartz · Jul 15, 2026 · 2 min

Meta to Begin Production of Custom Iris AI Chips in September in Bid for 14-Gigawatt Power Grid: Report
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Meta to Begin Production of Custom Iris AI Chips in September in Bid for 14-Gigawatt Power Grid: Report

Meta Platforms Inc. plans to begin manufacturing its next-generation custom artificial intelligence (AI) chip in September, according to an internal memo reviewed by Reuters. Code-named Iris, the in-house silicon is part of a broader effort by the social media giant to double its computing infrastructure capacity to 14 gigawatts by next year and reduce its […]

Jon Swartz · Jul 14, 2026 · 2 min

Micron Bets $250 Billion on AI Boom with Expanded U.S. Manufacturing
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Micron Bets $250 Billion on AI Boom with Expanded U.S. Manufacturing

Micron Technology Inc. on Thursday announced an expanded $250 billion U.S. investment strategy through 2035, placing itself squarely at the forefront of the domestic semiconductor manufacturing boom. Driven by skyrocketing artificial intelligence (AI) demand and a federal push to secure critical supply chains, the memory chip giant increased its previous capital expenditure commitment by $50 […]

Jon Swartz · Jul 9, 2026 · 2 min

Apple, Broadcom Extend Custom AI Chip Partnership Through 2031
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Apple, Broadcom Extend Custom AI Chip Partnership Through 2031

Broadcom Inc. has secured a major long-term extension to supply custom semiconductors to Apple Inc. through 2031, the company announced Monday. The expanded partnership leans heavily on application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) designed to power Apple’s growing artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure, effectively easing Wall Street concerns regarding the iPhone maker’s efforts to phase out third-party silicon. […]

Jon Swartz · Jul 6, 2026 · 3 min

U.S. Geopolitics Will Speed Up Semiconductor Supply Chain Deglobalization
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Apple Seeks White House Approval to Buy Chips From Blacklisted Chinese Maker Amid AI Supply Crunch

Apple Inc. is lobbying the Trump administration for federal permission to purchase memory chips from ChangXin Memory Technologies Inc. (CXMT), a prominent Chinese semiconductor firm currently blacklisted by the U.S. government, according to a report by The Financial Times. The tech giant approached the Commerce Department more than a month ago and has engaged White […]

Jon Swartz · Jun 28, 2026 · 2 min

ON Semiconductor to Acquire Synaptics in $7 Billion Physical AI Push
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ON Semiconductor to Acquire Synaptics in $7 Billion Physical AI Push

ON Semiconductor Corp. has agreed to acquire Synaptics Inc. in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $7 billion, marking the largest deal in the company’s history. The acquisition signals an aggressive expansion beyond ON Semiconductor’s core power and sensing business into the rapidly growing market for physical AI, intelligence that runs locally on hardware rather […]

Jon Swartz · Jun 26, 2026 · 2 min

OpenAI, Broadcom Unveil Custom Jalapeño AI Chip to Challenge NVIDIA’s Dominance
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OpenAI, Broadcom Unveil Custom Jalapeño AI Chip to Challenge NVIDIA’s Dominance

In a major bid to reduce reliance on NVIDIA Corp. and secure its own hardware pipeline, OpenAI has partnered with Broadcom Inc. to unveil its first custom artificial intelligence (AI) chip, codenamed Jalapeño. The chip marks the ChatGPT maker’s first official entry into custom AI hardware. Designed as an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC), Jalapeño is […]

Jon Swartz · Jun 24, 2026 · 3 min

Tech Tracking Firms Back Congressional Bill to Lock Down Advanced AI Chips From China
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Tech Tracking Firms Back Congressional Bill to Lock Down Advanced AI Chips From China

A coalition of specialized tracking firms has thrown its weight behind a critical Capitol Hill bill, arguing that enforcing tougher security mechanisms on America’s most powerful artificial intelligence (AI) chips is essential to plugging export loopholes and preventing sensitive technology from reaching foreign adversaries like China. In a letter sent to congressional leadership obtained by […]

Jon Swartz · Jun 22, 2026 · 2 min