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Taiwan rejects possibility of transferring 40% of the island's semiconductor capacity to U.S. — production on Taiwan expected to increase in lockstep with increases in U.S.-based production (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-09 | by Anton Shilov | related products | tags: expanding, government, overseas

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Global chip sales are on track to hit $1 trillion thanks to AI (techspot.com)

2026-02-09 | related products | tags: according semiconductor, ai infrastructure, association

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TSMC to make advanced AI semiconductors in Japan (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-09 | by Chan Covers China Business | related products | tags: advanced, chips, demand

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Semiconductor industry on track to hit $1 trillion in sales in 2026, SIA predicts — bumper forecast follows $791.7 billion haul for 2025 (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-06 | by Anton Shilov | related products | tags: billion, market, memory

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UCLA engineers discover the most heat-conductive metal ever measured (techspot.com)

2026-01-23 | related products | tags: conducting, conducting metal, conductivity

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Toilet maker Toto scores a royal flush as share price rises due to AI demand in unlikely chipmaking side-gig — Japanese company develops electrostatic chucks to hold silicon wafers in lucrative segment (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-23 | by Mark Tyson | related products | tags: analysts, chucks, expertise

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SmartOS (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-21 | related products | tags: conduct, illumos, smartos

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Scientists infected bacteria in space, and evolution took a new path (techspot.com)

2026-01-20 | related products | tags: aboard, aboard iss, bacteria viral

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Scientists infected bacteria in space – and evolution took a new path (techspot.com)

2026-01-20 | related products | tags: aboard, aboard iss, bacteria viral

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TSMC Says AI Demand Is 'Endless' After Record Q4 Earnings (slashdot.org)

2026-01-16 | related products | tags: believe, billion, earnings

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TSMC says AI demand is “endless” after record Q4 earnings (arstechnica.com)

2026-01-16 | related products | tags: believe, chips, earnings

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CNBC Daily Open: AI trade reignited by TSMC earnings blowout (cnbc.com)

2026-01-16 | by Yeo Boon Ping | related products | tags: announced, cnbc, semiconductor

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CNBC Daily Open: TSMC earnings draw investors' eyes back to AI (cnbc.com)

2026-01-16 | by Yeo Boon Ping | related products | tags: european, markets, profit

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A $250 billion trade deal will see Taiwan bring more semiconductor production to the US (engadget.com)

2026-01-15 | related products | tags: agreement, billion, cnbc

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Taiwan to invest $250B in US semiconductor manufacturing (techcrunch.com)

2026-01-15 | by Rebecca Szkutak | related products | tags: additional, billion, deal

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Chip stocks pop after TSMC's earnings beat boosts confidence in industrywide demand (cnbc.com)

2026-01-15 | by Ari Levy | related products | tags: broadcom, earnings, nvidia

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Water Is the Supply Chain Risk No One Talks About — Until It's Too Late (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-01-12 | related products | tags: industrial, infrastructure, reuse

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"They Saw a Protest": Cognitive Illiberalism and the Speech-Conduct Distinction [pdf] (2012) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-09 | related products | tags: cognitive, cognitive illiberalism, conduct

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"They Saw a Protest": Cognitive Illiberalism and the Speech-Conduct Distinction [pdf] (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-09 | related products | tags: cognitive, cognitive illiberalism, conduct

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Building materials are getting closer to doubling as batteries (technologyreview.com)

2026-01-06 | by Andrew Paul Laurent | related products | tags: carbon, conducting, conducting carbon

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Micron secures $318 million Taiwanese subsidy for HBM R&D as AI memory arms race intensifies — three-year project aims to develop leading-edge, high-performance memory (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-02 | by Luke James | related products | tags: advanced, development, memory

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UK Company Sends Factory With 1,000C Furnace Into Space (slashdot.org)

2026-01-01 | related products | tags: factory, semiconductor, semiconductors

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UK company shoots a 1,000-degree furnace into space to study off-world chip manufacturing — semiconductors made in space could be 'up to 4,000 times purer' than Earthly equivalents (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-31 | by Jowi Morales | related products | tags: forge, manufacturing, reduce

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UK company shoots a 1000-degree furnace into space to study off-world chip manufacturing — semiconductors made in space could be 'up to 4,000 times purer' than Earthly equivalents (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-31 | by Jowi Morales | related products | tags: forge, manufacturing, reduce

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The Top 8 Semiconductor Stories of 2025 (spectrum.ieee.org)

2025-12-30 | by Samuel K. Moore | related products | tags: chip, chips, lithography

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Trump administration announces new tariffs on Chinese chips and electronic components — but fresh sanctions won't take effect until 2027, and rates remain unknown (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-24 | by Bruno Ferreira | related products | tags: china, components, production

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New Texas Instruments fab will pump out tens of millions of chips per day — first 300mm fab starts production after $60 billion investment (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-18 | by Jowi Morales | related products | tags: instruments, power, semiconductor

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Watching office workers eat lunch is a thing on TikTok (feeds.feedburner.com)

2025-12-16 | related products | tags: according poll, americans, bowl

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Essential Semiconductor Physics [pdf] (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-13 | related products | tags: essential, essential semiconductor, physics

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Essential Semiconductor Physics,Mark Lundstrom Purdue University [pdf] (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-13 | related products | tags: essential, essential semiconductor, lundstrom