Elon Musk’s recent announcement on Twitter that “Tesla will have genuinely useful humanoid robots in low production for Tesla internal use next year” suggests that robots that have physical human-like characteristics and provide “genuinely useful” function might be with us soon. However, despite decades of trying, useful humanoid robots have remained a fiction that never […]

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A Chinese computer server supplier that was set up four and a half years ago to circumvent US sanctions has been accused of selling products to sanctioned Chinese firms. Nettrix, a Beijing-based firm established in December 2019, has sold computer servers that used Intel and Nvidia’s chips and Microsoft’s software to sanctioned Chinese companies and […]

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The Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) has designed a new type of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography equipment that could significantly reduce the cost to produce 7nm and smaller semiconductors, and thus revolutionize the chip manufacturing supply chain. According to reports, the EUV equipment’s optical system is greatly simplified while power consumption is reduced […]

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On Monday (August 5) a US federal judge ruled Google has violated antitrust laws, saying the organization is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly. Google disputes the ruling. Its president of global affairs, Kent Walker, said: “this decision recognises that Google offers the best search engine, but concludes that […]

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The United States plans to expand a Cold War-era rule to stop China from obtaining restricted chip-making tools and high-end chips from places including Israel, Singapore, Malaysia and Taiwan. The Biden administration is set to expand the coverage of its Foreign Direct Product Rule (FDPR), which was first introduced in 1959 to control the trading […]

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Once in a great while, Twitter X can still be a place for interesting discussions instead of breathless political screeching. July 29 was one of those times. I wrote a thread asking why America missed the battery revolution and got a lot of very interesting responses. So I thought I’d redo that thread as a blog post and expand […]

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The Netherlands will lose top semiconductor industry talent if the country maintains probing national security checks on Chinese students enrolled at its universities, Chinese state-run media reports and nationalistic commentators have asserted in the latest tech war tit-for-tat.  The Chinese comments came after Robert-Jan Smits, president of the Netherlands’ Eindhoven University of Technology, told Bloomberg […]

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Nvidia, the world’s largest company by value, is reportedly developing a new artificial intelligence (AI) chip based on its flagship product B200 for the China market. The mass production of the new chip, which may be called B20, will commence later this year while shipments will start in the second quarter of next year, Reuters […]

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Chinese firms still have access to Nvidia Inc’s high-end artificial intelligence (AI) chips by using cloud servers operated by Google and Microsoft despite the United States’ chip export ban.  Microsoft permits its customers in China to use Azure cloud servers based outside of mainland China, The Information reported on Wednesday, citing an employee of the […]

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The European Union is preparing two surveys aimed at checking how China’s growing production capacity of older-generation semiconductors is affecting the bloc.  The European Commission will conduct two surveys covering major chip-consuming industrial firms and the chip industry, respectively, in September, Reuters reported on Saturday (July 6).  The report, citing two unnamed sources, said the […]

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Open-source information and intelligence are fueling global participation in the war in Ukraine and other global hotspots, changing how the private sector, the public and governments influence conflicts. Within a day of the June 2, 2024, release of a video documenting the abuse of prisoners of war by a Russian soldier in Ukraine, open-source intelligence […]

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The United States is stepping up its efforts to prevent China from accessing advanced chip technologies that can make gate-all-around (GAA) transistors and high-bandwidth memory (HBM) chips.  One of the key targets of Washington’s potential curb will be the Hefei-based ChangXin Memory Technologies Inc (CXMT), which produces DRAM for use in computer servers and smart […]

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Chinese fabless artificial intelligence chip makers have downgraded their designs to retain access to production in Taiwan after the United States tightened its chip export controls last October. MetaX and Enflame, two Shanghai-based graphic processing unit (GPU) designers, submitted downgraded designs of their chips to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) in late 2023 to meet […]

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A South Korean firm, managed by two Chinese chip engineers, reportedly is being probed by the United States Commerce Department for shipping American parts to sanctioned Chinese firms. Ronda Korea Co Ltd was accused of having been selling parts developed by California-based Lam Research to Chinese firms under US sanctions, according to a report by […]

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Huawei Technologies, a Shenzhen-based telecommunication equipment maker, is reportedly planning to make 3 nanometer chips with deep ultraviolet (DUV) lithography machines despite low yields and high costs. An article published by Tom’s Hardware, an American technology website, reported Tuesday that Huawei and Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC) together plan to produce 3nm chips by using […]

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Popular Chinese economist Lu Qiyuan recently claimed the US has four years to prevent a major political, social and financial crisis. It must do at least one of three things: implement structural political reform; prevent the dollar from losing its role as the global reserve currency; or create a new wave of economic growth driven […]

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Viola Zhou has written an excellent investigative report into the culture clashes and growing pains at the TSMC factory in Phoenix, Arizona. Before I dive in, however, I should note that in my opinion, the headline that the magazine gave to this article was not very representative of what’s actually going on. The headline is “TSMC’s debacle […]

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The Australian government has announced a pledge of approximately A$940 million (US$617 million) to PsiQuantum, a quantum computing start-up company based in Silicon Valley. Half of the funding will come from the Queensland government, and in exchange, PsiQuantum will locate its planned quantum computer in Brisbane, with a regional headquarters at Brisbane Airport. PsiQuantum claims […]

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The Dutch government is said to have started slowing the issuance of licenses for ASML to provide maintenance services to certain lithography machines in China. Alan Estavez, US undersecretary of commerce for industry and security, will meet with officials and ASML executives in the Netherlands on Monday and raise the servicing contract matter with them, […]

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A Beijing-based state-owned enterprise reportedly has started research on a multiple-patterning process that can achieve the mass production of 5 nanometer chips.  Naura Technology Group, a Shenzhen-listed company, last month began research on lithography systems that use a technique known as self-aligned quadruple patterning (SAQP), which can increase a chip’s density and performance, the South […]

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