As AI accelerators and HPC devices grow larger and more complex, advanced chip design continues to move away from the transistor and toward the package.
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Small modular reactor startups are betting that mass manufacturing will help them bring costs down. But are they underestimating the challenge?
We’re not shipping a lot of humanoid robots yet. But shipments are forecast to almost double each year for the next decade. Here’s who’s leading now …
Intel’s CEO says he expects ‘great momentum in terms of yields and IP’ on the company’s 14A process technology.
Elon Musk says that modern cleanrooms are built wrong, and if Tesla builds its own fab, he will be able to eat and smoke in that facility.
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Boston Dynamics latest Atlas humanoid robot is big, strong, and increasingly smart, thanks to Google. The company has plans to ship up to 30,000 per year.
China’s two largest pure-play foundries, SMIC and Hua Hong Semiconductor, are in the middle of significant consolidation efforts that demonstrate how industrial policy is reshaping the country’s chip sector.
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Agibot just released a robot dog, a factory-worker humanoid robot on wheels, a “white-collar” humanoid robot for reception-like duties, and a playful dancing robot.
China calls Taiwan reunification “unstoppable” as military drills proceed.
The U.S. Department of Commerce didn’t renew the validated end-user status of these chipmakers, requiring them to acquire annual licenses to import chipmaking tools containing U.S. tech into their Chinese fabs.
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