Intel’s performance-enhanced 18A-P process enters risk production — drop-in 18A upgrade promises 9% performance improvement at iso-power, cuts thermal resistance by 40%

Intel’s enhanced 18A-P has entered risk production, laying the groundwork to ramp the node into full production in the coming months.
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Chinese fab SMIC’s 7nm metal pitch beats Intel 18A but lags 38% on density, teardown finds — Huawei’s sanctions-beating HiSilicon Kirin 9030 is the first subject of SemiAnalysis’s new teardown lab

SemiAnalysis has published the first teardown from its new in-house lab, focusing on the minimum local metal pitch on SMIC’s third-gen 7nm at 32.5nm.
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Qualcomm mulls taking over Jim Keller’s Tenstorrent, report claims — deal for AI chipmaker would value the company at between $8 billion and $10 billion

Qualcomm is in talks to buy RISC-V-based AI accelerator and CPU developer Tenstorrent for $8 billion – $10 billion.

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TSMC says panel packaging won’t replace CoWoS anytime soon for the largest future AI processors — wafer-level tech can scale to 58 massive dies in one package

TSMC is exploring panel-level packaging and is working on its CoPoS technology, but the company’s Kevin Zhang says wafer-level packaging technologies is considerably more advanced than panel-level packaging.
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Project Jupiter AI data center build raises concerns about water usage in rural New Mexico desert — Oracle calls water usage ‘negligible’ for 11 million gallon one-time fill

Oracle’s Project Jupiter is targeting a New Mexico desert already struggling with water consumption, but the company assures residents that the data center’s water usage is “negligible.”
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Multiple small Tennessee counties pass temporary data center bans — Nashville also passed near-unanimous moratorium on first reading

Two jurisdictions in Tennessee just passed a data center moratorium as three more a set to vote on bills that delay these projects. These temporary bans have gained widespread support, especially in rural regions where dev…

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Marvell details vision of optically-interconnected data centers spanning across thousands of kilometers — new interconnects sampling later this year would allow CSPs to pool resources based on workload

Marvell shares its vision for optically connected data centers, connecting devices across hundreds of kilometers, and the company already has hardware to build them.
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China’s supreme court bans Infineon from selling GaN power chips in China — market-leader Innoscience secures major victory in multi-region patent war

China’s Supreme People’s Court on Friday upheld an injunction prohibiting Infineon from selling disputed GaN products in mainland China.
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FBI dismantles Chinese phishing service that coached buyers to generate scam sites using AI —$88 cybercrime product linked to $1.9 billion in losses, 3.87 million stolen cards

The FBI, Google, and Lumen Technologies say they’ve dismantled a China-based phishing-as-a-service operation called Outsider Enterprise.
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2021 Honda Civic infotainment system can be jailbroken via USB — flaw uses public Android test keys to install unauthorized apps, enables for ‘EvilValet’ attacks

A software architect determined that they could practically install anything they want on the infotainment system of their 2021 Honda Civic through the front USB port. While the head unit required a signed AOSP file to upd…

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