Rohail Saleem's Wccftech Beat: AI, Semiconductors and the Business of Computing
Rohail Saleem reports for Wccftech on the companies financing and building AI infrastructure, from chipmakers NVIDIA, AMD and TSMC to model developers OpenAI and Anthropic. His coverage connects corporate spending and hardware supply with the devices consumers buy.
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Reporting background
Saleem joined Wccftech in September 2019. His author biography credits him with more than 2,200 articles since 2019, while a separate counter on the page displays 3,080 articles. He earned a commerce degree through the University of Toronto's Rotman Commerce program.
His reporting draws on company earnings reports, supply-chain data and analyst research to examine investment in chips, data centers and computing capacity. Wccftech's About page gives his title as "Reporter, AI & Semiconductors" and places him in its Mobile section; the page also includes Hardware, Gaming, and Management & Ops sections.
AI financing, models and manufacturing
The recent-post feed brings together the financial and technical sides of AI. One headline describes a hurdle in Anthropic's $63 billion TPU financing that Broadcom addressed by improving terms for banks. Another covers Elon Musk's criticism of AI neoclouds as SpaceX raises $40 billion for GPUs. A third reports Bill Ackman's suggestion that Musk might need to borrow a trillion dollars to reach SpaceX's 2027 compute target.
Manufacturing coverage includes KeyBanc's claim that Intel has secured contracts from several major chip customers and a report about an explosion at Intel's Fab 38 in Israel. Another post describes YMTC following CXMT in preparing a memory prototype operating at 9,600 MT/s.
The feed also includes reporting on Google's Gemini 4 Carbon, DeepSeek's V4.1-Flash-1017 and Moonshot's Kimi K3.1 Pro, along with OpenAI's tease of GPT-6.1 Astra. Policy coverage includes China's planned requirement for export licenses for all new large AI models.
Featured hardware commentary
The author page highlights three opinion pieces about the trade-offs in consumer hardware. In his iPhone Air commentary, Saleem argues that a silicon-carbon battery could have improved the phone's prospects. He notes its battery capacity is the lowest in the iPhone 17 lineup and cites Ming-Chi Kuo's report that Apple was asking suppliers to reduce component production by as much as 80%, explicitly making that account conditional on the report's accuracy.
His M5 iPad Pro piece questions whether the tablet's battery capacity allows it to make proper use of its processing power. In another column, he criticizes Google's chip-design approach after MediaTek's Dimensity 9500 repeatedly outperformed the Tensor G5 in benchmarks.
Recognition from other outlets
Wccftech's author page lists Fortune, UPI, QZ, 9to5Google, MacRumors and CNET under "Featured In." The listed coverage includes AMD's stock decline following disappointing data-center sales, a Perplexity–Google Chrome deal, NVIDIA's $5 trillion market capitalization, Pixel 10 sales and reported plans for lower-priced Macs.
About Wccftech
Wccftech traces its origins to a small technology-enthusiast forum founded in 2004. On its About page, the outlet describes itself as one of the world's most-visited technology media platforms and says it consistently ranks among the five most-commented websites. It reports serving readers across the Americas, EMEA and APAC with news, reviews and in-depth technical analysis.
The company's corporate profile identifies its legal name as WCCF TECH INC. and its headquarters as Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It also lists offices in Bellevue, Washington, and Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
That profile puts its staff at about 23 people across seven countries, including Pakistan, Canada, Italy, the United Arab Emirates and the United States. Wccftech's About page names Abdullah Saad as Editor & CEO.
