Imec’s new post-exposure bake method speeds up EUV chipmaking tools, boosting production for the most advanced chips — 20% gain in photoresist improvement from increased oxygen concentration

Increased oxygen concentration during the EUV lithography post-exposure bake step can increase photoresist performance by 15% – 20%, according to Imec’s findings.

Intel Foundry boss leaves for Qualcomm — Naga Chandrasekaran takes charge of the unit

Naga Chandrasekaran promoted to Chief Technology and Operations Officer as well as the general manager of Intel Foundry responsible for development of advanced process technologies and day-to-day operations.

Researchers discover massive Wi-Fi vulnerability affecting multiple access points — AirSnitch lets attackers on the same network intercept data and launch machine-in-the-middle attacks

A team of researchers discovered that they can break cryptographic client isolation on a number of wireless routers by taking advantage of how Wi-Fi networks work.

Chipmakers still suffering from rare earth shortages, says report — US-China trade truce apparently still hasn’t eased pressures despite agreement taking place in October last year

Sources told Reuters that some U.S. chipmaking firms are running low on scandium — a crucial rare earth material for making 5G chips — as they suffer delays from acquiring export licenses from Beijing.

Trump orders Big Tech to generate its own power for AI data centers — reveals new ‘ratepayer protection pledge’ to curb rising electricity prices in the US

Building upon his Social Truth post from last month, President Trump has formally asked the big tech players to build their own power plants. Data centers have been eating at the national grid, causing electricity prices t…

HP says memory costs doubled in one quarter, now account for 35% of PC build materials

Interim CEO Bruce Broussard told investors the company has responded by securing long-term supply agreements for the year and has “qualified new suppliers”.

AI chatbots used tactical nuclear weapons in 95% of AI war games, launched strategic strikes three times — researcher put GPT-5.2, Claude Sonnet 4, and Gemini 3 against each other, with at least one model using a tactical nuke in 20 out of 21 matches

A researcher made three different AI LLMs the heads of state of nuclear-powered nations and made them face off with each other using historical scenarios. Out of the total of 21 matches, 20 ended with a tactical nuke deton…

Nvidia delivers first Vera Rubin AI GPU samples to customers — 88-core Vera CPU paired with Rubin GPUs with 288 GB of HBM4 memory apiece

Nvidia begins to ship samples of its Vera Rubin platforms for AI to partners, on track for revenue shipments in the second half of the year.

Inside Meta and AMD’s $100 billion deal, and why AMD is giving up a slice of the company in return for GPU orders — Meta stays platform-agnostic as it develops AI compute strategy

AMD and Meta’s blockbuster deal could see the company signing away 10% of shares in the business to Meta. We examine why AMD is keen to secure AI hardware orders, and explore Meta’s AI compute strategy.