
BusinessLam Research’s plan to invest more than $3 billion in its global laboratory network signals a push to place development capacity closer to the customers and technologies shaping the next semiconductor cycle.

BusinessApple’s new Advanced Manufacturing Center in Houston turns a promised US manufacturing expansion into a practical workforce and production hub tied to AI infrastructure and Mac mini assembly.

BusinessIntel’s proposed $15 billion equity offering would add financial capacity for an accelerating manufacturing build-out, but it also shifts more of the execution risk to shareholders through dilution.

BusinessNVIDIA has confirmed partnerships with six major financial firms aimed at mobilising more than $500 billion of third-party capital for AI infrastructure, although the arrangements remain subject to final agreements.

BusinessElectronic Arts has completed its $55 billion sale to a consortium led by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, ending its time as a publicly traded company and placing a major games publisher under private ownership.