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ASML Patterns First Wafer Using High-NA EUV Tool, Ships Second High-NA Scanner

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This week ASML is making two very important announcements related to their progress with high numerical aperature extreme ultraviolet lithography (High-NA EUV). First up, the company’s High-NA EUV prototype system at its fab in Veldhoven, the Netherlands, has printed the first 10nm patterns, which is a major milestone for ASML and their next-gen tools. Second,…

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New leak spoils all the surprises from Google’s Pixel 8a announcement

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We’re less than two weeks away from Google’s I/O 2024 event, where the company will unveil the Pixel 8a mid-range smartphone. All the leaks have told us that, and Google Pixel leaks are almost always right. After all, the annual I/O event has been the natural home of this type of Pixel device.Nobody would blame…

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TSMC Posts Q1’24 Results: 3nm Revenue Share Drops Steeply, but HPC Share Rises

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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. this week released its financial results for Q1 2024. Due to a rebound in demand for semiconductors, the company garned $18.87 billion in revenue for the quarter, which is up 12.9% year-over-year, but a decline of 3.8% quarter-over-quarter. The company says that in increase in demand for HPC processors (which includes…

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Security Think Tank: Maybe let’s negotiate with terrorists

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Okay, hear me out.  In the 1960s and 70s, the UK began to develop the policy of non-negotiation in response to the increasing number of terrorist incidents primarily from Northern Ireland; though another, more famous example of not negotiating, would be the siege of the Iranian Embassy in 1980. In the US, the position started…

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AMD Announces Ryzen Pro 8000 and Ryzen Pro 8040 Series CPUs: Commercial Desktop Gets AI

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AMD is looking to drive the AI PC market with options across multiple product lines, which aren’t limited to consumer processors. While primarily designed for the commercial sector, AMD has announced the Ryzen Pro 8000 ‘Phoenix’ series of APUs for desktops, which AMD claims is the first professional-grade CPU to include an NPU designed to provide…

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Post Office scheme was a ‘charade’ that never intended for large compensation pay-outs

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The Post Office never intended to pay large sums of money as financial redress to former subpostmasters blighted by problems with its accounting software. During the latest Post Office scandal public inquiry hearing, featuring evidence from former senior Post Office executive Angela van den Bogerd, it was revealed that former CEO Paula Vennells expected subpostmaster…

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SK Hynix and TSMC Team Up for HBM4 Development

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SK hynix and TSMC announced early on Friday that they had signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on developing the next-generation HBM4 memory and advanced packaging technology. The initiative is designed to speed up the adoption of HBM4 memory and solidify SK hynix’s and TSMC’s leading positions in high-bandwidth memory and advanced processor applications.…

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JEDEC Extends DDR5 Memory Specification to 8800 MT/s, Adds Anti-Rowhammer Features

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When JEDEC released its DDR5 specification (JESD79) back in 2020, the standard setting organization defined precise specs for modules with speed bins of up to 6400 MT/s, while leaving the spec open to further expansions with faster memory as technology progressed. Now, a bit more than three-and-a-half years later, and the standards body and its…

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What if the groundbreaking ‘iPhone AI’ is just a regular old phone? 

5 minutes of reading / 5G, AI, Apple, ChatGPT, Google, iPhone, Samsung, Tech / By

Thank god for the Humane Ai Pin and Rabbit r1 launches this year. These “not-a-phone” gadgets are supposed to put AI front and center. But each of them represents a different type of failure. Yet I’m thankful for both of them, as they’ve opened our eyes to the reality of AI hardware: We have some…

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This AI app clones your dead family members, and people are horrified

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A new AI app is drawing criticism and horror for its unsettling premise that it can clone your friends and loved ones. The app is called Vera AI, and while it isn’t available on the Google Play Store any longer in certain countries, reports about the app paint a very disturbing picture.For starters, the app’s…

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