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The idea of using light instead of electricity to power computer chips is moving from science fiction to reality. Photonic chips, or...
Thursday at 6:51 AM
This fab seems like an environmental disaster waiting to happen.
Thursday at 6:38 AM
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This is good news for TSMC and Intel Foundry. Intel 18A is very competitive with TSMC N3 and fab shells are ready and waiting for wafer...
Thursday at 6:32 AM
This is good news for TSMC and Intel Foundry. Intel 18A is very competitive with TSMC N3 and fab shells are ready and waiting for wafer...
Thursday at 6:18 AM
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Will there ever be a chip that uses light instead of electrical current? Is it even possible?
Thursday at 6:15 AM
Liang-rong Chen
Tech Taiwan
Nov 13, 2025
The AI prophet gets nervous.
Here’s what I observed after sitting just a few meters away from...
Thursday at 6:13 AM
A
Currently in the range of $70M/quarter.
Unknown.
I agree, it is a very specialized AI supercomputer. They seem to currently put a lot...
Thursday at 6:09 AM
C
There's a running joke among IBM engineers that the only EDA license guaranteed to be renewed every year is LaTeX.
Thursday at 5:59 AM
A
Sounds better to expand their fabs in Idaho.
Thursday at 4:30 AM
A
This is why TSM is building its fabs in Arizona. Stable ground enables them to have the flattest floors to build on, the foundation is...
Thursday at 4:23 AM
T
I've always found the investment (often government subsidy):# jobs created ratio an interesting sanity check in the past. Certainly for...
Thursday at 1:53 AM
C
When the cost of innovation is every resource we need to survive. It makes me nervous.
Thursday at 1:45 AM
Y
A great breakthrought in General Process Processors, like Sun's SPARC during 90's.
Nov 12, 2025
S
IBM will build quantum hardware that speeds up some algorithms exponentially, but it will be supported by an exponential amount of...
Nov 12, 2025
K
I'm confident software will mature, but my reference is the brute force hardware design. For example, the brain has between 10^14 and...
Nov 12, 2025