The Trump administration is targeting $4 trillion Pax Silica investment for semiconductors. It’s not currently clear how the Trump administration arrived at the $4 trillion figure, or how it will ultimately materialize.
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An in-depth examination of how rising power density, 3D integration, and novel materials are outpacing legacy thermal measurement — and what advanced metrology must deliver.What Attendees will LearnWhy heat is now the dominant constraint on semiconduc…
Silicon, Arena’s stylish and premium “coffee table book like no other,” is up for pre-order now priced at $99.
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Three Super Micro employees have been charged with conspiring to unlawfully divert cutting edge U.S. artificial intelligence technology to China.
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Tesla begins to form a core team behind its Terafab project, which will define the fab and spearhead its construction and tamp.
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Nvidia unveiled the Groq 3 language processing unit at GTC 2026 in San Jose on Monday, marking the first chip to emerge from its $20 billion licensing and talent deal with Groq.
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Researchers from the University of Houston managed to increase the critical temperature for superconductivity by about 18 K at ambient pressure, but at −122°C, they are still 140°C away from the target.
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Samsung to remain primary HBM memory supplier for AMD’s AI accelerators as the companies look into possible foundry relationship.
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As Meta introduces its lineup of new AI chips, the company joins other tech giants in diversifying the AI accelerators used for specific workloads, and says that mainstream GPUs built for large-scale pre-training are less …
Intel’s CPU roadmap is unlike any the company has published in recent years, because its manufacturing ambitions and its product launches have to succeed simultaneously.
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