AI hardware
AI & Automation
Photonic AI Chips: Light-Based Computing Delivers 30x to 100x Energy Savings
ALGERIATECH Editorial
May 24, 2026
⚡ Key Takeaways Three photonic computing approaches reached commercial or near-commercial status in 2025–2026: Q.ANT’s NPU Gen 2 (30x energy...
AI & Automation
Brain-Inspired Chips: How Cambridge’s Hafnium-Oxide Memristor Could Cut AI Energy by 70%
ALGERIATECH Editorial
April 28, 2026
⚡ Key Takeaways Cambridge researchers (led by Dr. Babak Bakhit) have published in Science Advances (April 2026) a hafnium-oxide memristor...
AI & Automation
Algeria’s First Chip: CDTA’s 65nm Semiconductor Milestone and the Road to AI Hardware
ALGERIATECH Editorial
March 25, 2026
Algeria's CDTA unveiled a 1mm² 65nm chip in April 2025. How the Baba Hassen lab targets 1,000 jobs, 25 startups, and sovereign AI hardware capability.
AI & Automation
NVIDIA and the GPU Economy: How One Company Controls the AI Hardware Pipeline
ALGERIATECH Editorial
March 13, 2026
NVIDIA dominates the AI chip market with its CUDA moat and GPU platform strategy. Here’s how the GPU economy works and what threatens it.
Startups
The AI Chip Insurgency: $1.2 Billion in One Week to Dethrone Nvidia
ALGERIATECH Editorial
March 2, 2026
MatX, Positron, Taalas, and SambaNova raised over $1.2 billion in a single week. The AI chip insurgency targeting Nvidia's dominance is real.
