Intel and imec demonstrate the first 300-mm, fab-compatible integration of contacts and gate stacks for 2D transistors, marking a critical step in turning long-studied 2D materials from lab experiments into a realistic fut…
Intel has installed and qualified ASML’s TWINSCAN EXE:5200B, the first High-NA EUV lithography tool designed for commercial production, reiterating Intel’s plans to use High-NA EUV patterning for 14A process technology and…
U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders wants to delay AI data center projects to slow down progress, to ensure that AI will benefit the largest number of people and not just the richest few.
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Nearly 7,000 of the world’s operational data centers are located in climates that fall outside the temperature range recommended for efficient operation, according to a new analysis.
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Orbital data centers have been proposed as a way around the power, cooling, and regulatory requirements of building on Earth, but new analysis reveals that the costs of deploying such installations would be astronomical.
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U.S. President Donald Trump secures an investment from a South Korean firm to build a rare earth refinery in Tennessee.
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Japan’s Dai Nippon Printing (DNP) claims to have developed a nanoimprint lithography template capable of patterning logic with a feature size of 1.4nm, with plans for mass production in 2027.
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Three Democratic Senators are investigating the impact of the massive AI data center build out on the electricity bill of the average American.
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Qualcomm has agreed to acquire Ventana Micro Systems, a RISC-V CPU specialist whose engineers have spent several years pushing the open instruction set toward high-performance server and edge designs.
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