Intel has been building chips designed for gaming PCs for years but the company is now moving into handheld devices too.

The Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Plus chip is built for mid-range laptops. It is claimed to deliver Snapdragon X2 Elite-like battery life at a more accesible price point.

Nvidia’s $20 billion Groq deal signals that AI inference—not training—will be the big focus going forward, lifting a crop of chip and software startups while reigniting debate over how long Nvidia's d

Nvidia ( NVDA 0.39%) revealed its next-generation Vera Rubin superchip at CES, which combines a CPU and two GPUs in a single processor, a big step forward in helping to power AI computing demand. Beating the market by 68% since its Hidden Gems recommendation in May 2024, the stock was up around 0.7% ahead of the market open.

Chinese AI and semiconductor stocks have rallied since the breakout of the China-made DeepSeek-R1 AI model in January 2025.

An early glimpse at the CPUs and GPUs powering the PCs of tomorrow. Here's a rundown of the chips we hope to see from Intel, AMD, Nvidia, and Snapdragon at CES 2026.

Hopes are building for a recovery in the analog-semiconductor market, and that's sending the chip sector toward a fresh record on Tuesday. The PHLX Semiconductor Index's biggest gainer is Microchip Technology's stock,

In addition to the X2 Plus, Qualcomm unveiled a new robotics initiative at CES 2026, including a drive toward humanoid robots. The company said it believes the market for physical AI, another term for robots, will be worth as much as $1 trillion by 2040, and it's looking to get a piece of that action.

IShowSpeed will reportedly be getting his own Doritos Chip flavor this year. Previously, in December, Doritos teased a new collaboration with the Twitch streamer for February 2026. However, Instagram foodie influencer Snackolator might have spoiled the collaboration already,

China is considering a package of incentives worth as much as $70 billion to bankroll and support its chipmaking industry, pouring more state money into a sector it deems pivotal to its technological conflict with the US.

Nvidia announced today at CES 2026 that it would help Siemens’ electronic design automation (EDA) software run on its GPUs in an attempt to speed up the chip-design process. Nearly all computer chips today are designed using EDA tools,