Intel Corporation

Semiconductor manufacturer offering Trump Accounts matching contributions. - Matching $1,000 for U.S. employees' children

The United States has never offered universal investment accounts to children. Starting July 4, 2026, every American born between 2025 and 2028 will receive $1,000 from the Treasury Department deposited into a stock market index fund—accessible at age 18 for education, homebuying, or starting a business. Over 1 million families enrolled in the program's first week.

Updated Jan 31

American semiconductor corporation developing neuromorphic computing hardware through its Loihi chip series, offering brain-inspired architectures as energy-efficient alternatives to traditional processors. - Released Loihi 3 neuromorphic chip for commercial deployment (January 2026)

Scientists at Germany's Jülich Research Centre demonstrated in mid-January 2026 that Europe's most powerful supercomputer can simulate 20 billion spiking neurons—matching the scale of the human cerebral cortex. The team plans to combine this capability with anatomical brain data to run full-cortex simulations, a technical milestone that has eluded researchers since the field's founding in the 1980s.

Updated Jan 31

U.S. chip giant betting its comeback on government-backed fabs and an aggressive 14A manufacturing roadmap. - Testing ACM tools for its 14A node at CHIPS-subsidized U.S. fabs while facing political backlash

Intel is racing to regain its chipmaking crown with a 14A process backed by billions in U.S. subsidies. In mid-December 2025, Reuters revealed the company had been test‑driving critical tools from ACM Research, a China‑rooted equipment maker whose Shanghai and Korean units sit on a U.S. export blacklist. The disclosure pulled a quiet engineering decision into the center of the U.S.–China tech war and deepened scrutiny of CEO Lip‑Bu Tan, whose venture firm invested in ACM years before he joined Intel.

Updated Jan 10