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Weekly reportApr 11 – Apr 17, 2026

This week in silicon

14 stories scored · avg composite 6.7/10 · top region: CA / Silicon Valley

Stories this week

14

across all sources

Avg composite score

6.7

out of 10.0

Top category

AI

most stories this week

Week's top score

7.8

composite out of 10

1
SemiconductorsCA / Silicon Valley7.8

TSMC confirms 2nm volume production on track for late 2025

2
AICA / Silicon Valley7.5

Nvidia announces GB300 Blackwell Ultra GPU with 288GB HBM3e

1
JobsCA / Silicon Valley7.0

Intel layoffs: 15,000 jobs cut as foundry business restructures

2
StartupsCA / Silicon Valley7.5

OpenAI raises $6.6B at $157B valuation — largest VC round ever

1
SemiconductorsTexas7.5

Samsung breaks ground on second Texas fab, adds 2,000 jobs

2
PolicyGlobal / Other6.6

US export controls expand to cover HBM memory chips for China

1
AICA / Silicon Valley6.2

AMD MI350X benchmarks leak — 40% faster than H100

2
JobsMidwest6.3

Ohio Intel fab hiring freeze raises questions about $20B timeline

1
AINortheast6.2

MIT researchers demonstrate photonic chip running AI at light speed

2
AICA / Silicon Valley6.8

Anthropic secures $4B Amazon investment, expands AWS deployment

1
PolicyMidwest7.3

CHIPS Act grants $8.5B to Intel — largest semiconductor award

2
JobsSoutheast6.7

Wolfspeed opens SiC power chip plant in North Carolina

1
HardwareCA / Silicon Valley5.9

Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite crushes Apple M3 in benchmarks

2
AIGlobal / Other5.5

Google DeepMind AlphaFold 3 predicts protein-drug interactions

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