Max A. Cherney

Reporting on semiconductors, AI infrastructure, and the global race to build next-generation computing.

Hello! I'm Max, a San Francisco-based tech correspondent at Reuters focused on semiconductors and AI. My reporting tracks how chipmakers, cloud providers, startups, and governments are competing to build and control the next generation of computing infrastructure.

I have previously worked for the Silicon Valley Business Journal, Investor's Business Daily, Protocol, MarketWatch and Barron's magazine covering chips and public technology companies. For VICE and The Economist I've written about crime, cannabis and tech. And I talked with Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow for San Francisco in a series of jailhouse interviews.

I'm one of the few writers who have competed against a class of San Quentin inmates in a literary death match.

For regular updates, you can find me on LinkedIn, or my recent work at Reuters.