
A two-year-old British AI lab wants to build the search engine for materials that do not exist yet. On Monday it gathered an unusual crowd to help. Cambridge-based CuspAI launched the AI Materials Foundry, a coalition of more than 45 companies and rese…

ASML says that the increased productivity of its Low-NA EUV tools gives it an option to increase the prices of these scanners in the future. The move may have a drastic effect on TSMC’s future expansion plans, as the foundry made a big bet on existing lithography systems.

TSMC’s A14 process technology progresses faster than N2 at this stage of development as developers of both client and AI/HPC plan to use it.

ASML’s comments point to intentions to increase prices, though the company is expected to maintain its value-based approach to price setting. Yet, TSMC is reportedly unhappy about the potential plan.
Tower Semiconductor has announced a dual-track expansion of its 300mm silicon photonics, silicon germanium, and advanced packaging operations in Japan

The firms powering the AI boom now want a piece of the mobile network. Nokia says it has built the industry’s first commercial AI-RAN platform, together with Nvidia, calling it the biggest shift in radio in decades. RAN stands for radio access network,…

Apple built a trillion-dollar business on chips it designs itself. It cannot design the ones its AI needs fast enough, so it is going shopping. The iPhone maker is hunting for AI chip acquisitions, The Information reported. In recent months it has talk…

Nvidia and Sega go back 30 years. Jensen Huang flew to Tokyo to thank the games maker for a $5m investment that saved his company from bankruptcy in 1995. “If not for what Sega did for Nvidia, Nvidia would not be here today.” That is Jensen Huang, chie…

Intel is using ASML’s High-NA EUV tools to pattern select Panther Lake layers, marking the technology’s first use in high-volume logic production

China’s biggest memory chipmaker is about to test the public markets. ChangXin Memory Technologies, known as CXMT, has priced its Shanghai IPO at 8.66 yuan ($1.28) a share, the South China Morning Post reported. The sale will raise about 57.9 billion y…