ASML projects $71 billion in revenue by 2030, as demand for EUV lithography machines intensifies due to AI boom — China sales lag behind while company cashes in on high-end Twinscan systems

ASML is on track to boost its annual sales to up to $71 billion by 2030 as demand for EUV tools set records.

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WinRAR exploit reportedly remains widely-used by China and Russia state actors despite patch — vulnerability allows malicious archives to deliver a hidden payload to Windows Startup folder

Google says that a WinRAR exploit that has been patched six months ago remain a popular attack vector, especially for state-sponsored threat actors. The vulnerability allows malicious archives to install malware on critica…

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says China hasn’t approved H200 imports yet — also confirms no new orders placed while Beijing decides

In one of the first official updates into the H200 China saga, CEO Jensen Huang has confirmed Beijing hasn’t decided whether to allow imports of the chip, and that the company ahs received no new orders from Chinese compan…

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AI-assisted cybersecurity team discovers 12 OpenSSL vulnerabilities, claims humans are the limiting factor — some vulnerabilities have been around for decades

OpenSSL is a security standard that protects most of the internet, and cybersecurity researchers have recently discovered vulnerabilities in the standard that have been lying undetected for decades.
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Samsung’s Taylor, Texas fab could herald a breakthrough for the chipmaker, company plans 2026 risk production — new production flows, pellicles for EUV patterning as site targets 50,000 WSPM

Samsung’s Fab in Taylor, Texas, set to start trial production sometimes in the second half of 2026 with mass production slated for 2027. With pellicles finally implemented for 2nm-class flows, Samsung could finally offer c…

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Despite AI chip boom and record high stock price, ASML to lay off employees — company to streamline IT and Technology departments, proposed cuts mostly affect leadership roles

ASML announced that it’s cutting around 1,700 positions — mostly at the leadership level — to streamline its operations. Its Technology and IT & Data organizations will be hardest hit by the planned layoffs.
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Apple and Nvidia considering Intel for 2028 chip production, report claims — non-core products may be outsourced, driven by tariffs and geopolitical concerns

Apple and Nvidia are reportedly working with Intel to produce some of their products in the U.S., but it is an open question which of their products Intel can actually make.
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SK hynix invests $10 billion in creating a U.S.-based ‘AI solutions’ company — company to restructure California-based Solidigm enterprise SSD brand to bolster American investments

Memory maker SK hynix has announced plans to invest $10 billion into a new AI solutions company, with the huge fund set to benefit the AI industry at large. The move follows similar investments made by other companies, suc…

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China satellite near miss prompts Starlink to reduce altitudes — more than 4,000 satellites pulled to 300-mile orbit to increase ‘space safety’

Chinese researchers said that Starlink reduced the altitude for a big part of its satellite constellation because of the near-miss incident it had with a Chinese satellite launch in December 2025.
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‘Thermodynamic computing’ could slash energy use of AI image generation by a factor of ten billion, study claims — prototypes show promise but huge task required to create hardware that can rival current models

New research claims that thermodynamic computing could drastically reduce the energy used by AI to create images.

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