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Air Liquide opens Taiwan factory as helium shortage tightens around chip makers — 200 specialized helium containers stranded near the Strait of Hormuz

French industrial gas supplier Air Liquide opened a new factory near the port of Taichung, Taiwan, on Wednesday, as the semiconductor industry faces a worsening helium shortage.

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SMIC sent chipmaking tools to Iran's military, Trump administration officials say — report claims exchange began a year ago, 'almost certainly included technical training on SMIC's semiconductor technology'

The officials said the collaboration "almost certainly included technical training on SMIC's semiconductor technology."

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Samsung Display debuts 'QuantumBlack' coating for QD-OLED monitors — screen tech boosts ambient black levels while reducing glare

If you've been putting off buying a QD-OLED monitor because of your room's lighting setup, Samsung Display might have solved your dilemma. The company's new "QuantumBlack" coating finally cuts down on black level raise, reducing purple tint and improving contrast under ambient lighting, among other upgrades.

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Apple discontinues Mac Pro after 20 years — system had been stuck in stasis with M2 Ultra since 2023

Apple has discontinued its Mac Pro tower, which hasn't been updated since a version with the M2 Ultra processor arrived in 2023.

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Elon Musk's Terafab semiconductor project could cost $5 trillion, Bernstein claims — herculean effort would cost more than 70% of the total yearly US government budget

To build 1 TW of AI silicon per year, Elon Musk's TeraFab would need to process 22.4 million Rubin Ultra GPU wafers, 2.716 million Vera CPU wafers, and 15.824 million HBM4E wafers annually using from 142 to 358 fabs, according to Bernstein.

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Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 CPU rumors join the 'powerful' 6 Pro in this early report

Thinking of going Pro? Early Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 rumors throw its alleged CPU to the forefront.

Android Central

The AI Gatekeeper: TSMC's Chokehold Signals Dominance

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's manufacturing bottleneck for advanced chips confirms its dominant role in the AI industry.

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Acer Swift Edge 14 AI laptop review: Another lightweight wonder from the Acer stable

The Acer Swift Edge 14 AI is a lightweight laptop that leverages a 200-series Core Ultra processor and LPDDR5X memory.

TechRadar

Nvidia's Jensen Huang confirms he was once asked to become chief executive of TSMC: 'I declined it... it's an unbelievable offer, but I simply couldn't take it'

It certainly hasn't stopped him from waxing lyrical about his relationship with the chipmaking titan.

PC Gamer

Trump administration targets $4 trillion Pax Silica investment fund for semiconductors — the US will start with a $250 million investment for global consortium

The Trump administration is targeting $4 trillion Pax Silica investment for semiconductors. It’s not currently clear how the Trump administration arrived at the $4 trillion figure, or how it will ultimately materialize.

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Price of Nvidia's Vera Rubin NVL72 racks skyrockets to as much as $8.8 million apiece, but server makers' margins will be tight — Nvidia is moving closer to shipping entire full-scale systems

While quotes for NVL72 VR200 rack-scale system will increase to $5 million – $7 million, margins of ODMs will likely decline.

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ASML Is Down 7% Over the Past Month. Should You Buy the Chip Stock on the Dip?

Analyst signals entry point for ASML with a "Buy" rating and 25% upside from current level.

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Elon Musk unveils $20 billion ‘TeraFab’ chip project to make chips, memory, and package processors all under one roof — targets a terawatt of annual compute

Tesla and SpaceX CEO, Elon Musk, announced Saturday night that his TeraFab semiconductor project will be built on the Tesla campus in eastern Travis County, Austin, Texas, as a joint venture.

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US Departments of Justice and Defense crush four massive botnets totaling 3,000,000 devices — botnets responsible for a combined 316,000 DDoS attacks globally

U.S. Departments of Justice and Defense take out four gigantic botnets with 3 million devices

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Global chip supply chain under threat as US-Iran conflict enters third week — Strait of Hormuz blockade is days away from crippling Taiwan's semiconductor industry

Taiwan imports almost all of its energy and requires large amounts of LNG to sustain its electrical grid. That grid is then used by local chipmakers — like TSMC who is responsible for making most of the world's high-end chips. Fabrication for these chips requires helium, which Taiwan also imports…

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STMicro to deploy humanoid robots to its legacy fabs in Europe — over 100 humanoid robots to be used for routine and physically demanding tasks in fight for efficiency

As cheap Chinese chips threaten to invade various sectors of the economy in Europe, STMicroelectronics is on track to improve the efficiency of its own fabs

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ASML workers still in the dark seven weeks after 1,700 management cuts announced — cuts represent 4% of its global workforce

The prolonged uncertainty is generating internal unrest, according to an ASML spokesperson who spoke to Dutch broadcaster Omroep Brabant.

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Zombie ZIP vulnerability lets compressed malware leisurely stroll past 95% of antivirus apps — security suites are blissfully unaware of security issue

Zombie ZIP vulnerability lets malware stroll past gates of 95% of AV suites

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M6 Pro MacBook Pro Rumours: Apple Plans OLED Screen, Touch Capabilities and Thinner Design

Apple's MacBook Pro faces a radical refresh with OLED screens and touch features incoming by 2027, according to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. The upgrade promises slimmer looks and powerhouse M6 chips, but at a steeper price.

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Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock — SK hynix forced to diversify after 30% of global supply removed from the market

QatarEnergy has not restarted helium production at its Ras Laffan complex nine days after Iranian drone strikes forced the facility offline.

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Meta reveals four new MTIA chips built for AI inference — to be released on a six-month cadence

All four chips have been developed in partnership with Broadcom and are scheduled for deployment within the next two years.

PC Gamer

How to make your very own semiconductor-class cleanroom in a wooden shed and build your own chips, well kinda

Knocking up a cleanroom isn't as hard as you might think, the rest of the job, however...

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Nexperia China claims to be making chips using 12-inch wafers — subsidiary deepens split with Dutch parent as it builds out 'mass production capabilities'

In a statement posted to its Chinese social media account, Nexperia China said it had reached a new milestone in its "independent R&D and mass production capabilities".

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America and Japan may join forces to manufacture displays in the US — New $13 billion fab proposed by Japan Display Inc. to counter Chinese dominance

The Japanese and American governments are considering setting up a new display factory in the U.S. that would cost $13 billion, a small part of a bigger $550 billion investment framework. This factory is being proposed by Japan Display Inc., a struggling display firm that has seen better days since…

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New Windows-native NVMe driver benchmarks reveal transformative performance gains, up to 64.89% — lightning-fast random reads and breakthrough CPU efficiency

StorageReview evaluated the performance benefits of Microsoft's native NVMe driver on Windows Server 2025 and found substantial performance increases, particularly in random reads.

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