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Qatar Helium Shutdown Puts Chip Supply Chain On a Two-Week Clock (slashdot.org)

2026-03-13 | get Helium Gas Tank → | tags: qatarenergy, helium, semiconductor

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Doubling the voltage: What 800 V architecture really changes in EVs (arstechnica.com)

2026-03-13 | get 800V EV Charger → | tags: porsche, hyundai, ev architecture

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The ongoing Strait of Hormuz blockage will impact the semiconductor and AI industries with Aluminum, Helium and LNG shortages — and with no timeline for re-opening, supply chains face significant challenges (tomshardware.com)

2026-03-13 | by Jon Martindale | get Semiconductor Supply Chain Kit → | tags: strat of hormuz, helium, aluminum

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Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-13 | by Luke James | get Helium Gas Tank → | tags: helium, qatarenergy, ras laffan

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Future AI chips could be built on glass (technologyreview.com)

2026-03-13 | by Jeremy Hsu | get Glass AI Chip Kit → | tags: amd, intel, glass substrates

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IEEE Launches Global Virtual Career Fairs (spectrum.ieee.org)

2026-03-11 | by Abir Chermiti | get IEEE Virtual Career Fair Kit → | tags: ieee, artificial intelligence, semiconductors

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Meta rolls out in-house AI chips weeks after massive Nvidia, AMD deals (cnbc.com)

2026-03-11 | by Katie Tarasov Jonathan Vanian | get Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 → | tags: meta, hyperion data center, mtia chips

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DIY chip lab turns backyard shed into Class 100 cleanroom with custom lithography system (techspot.com)

2026-03-11 | get Cleanroom DIY Kit → | tags: dr. semiconductor, diy chip lab, cleanroom

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The state of China's decade-long semiconductor push: still a decade behind, despite hundreds of billions spent and significant progress — examining the original 'Made in China 2025' initiative (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-20 | by Anton Shilov | get Semiconductor → | tags: advanced, china, chinese

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Robots run up walls and perform martial arts in China's most-watched TV event (techspot.com)

2026-02-19 | get Robotics → | tags: aerospace, aerospace semiconductor, ambitions

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U.S., Taiwan ink trade deal after months of talks — agreement cuts tariffs on Taiwanese goods to 15% in exchange for direct investments on U.S. tech sector, semiconductors still excluded (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-13 | by Jowi Morales | get Smartphone → | tags: billion, deal, finally

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U.S. signs trade deal with Taiwan, lowering tariffs to 15%, while Taipei to boost American goods purchases (cnbc.com)

2026-02-13 | by Lim Hui Jie | get Smartphone → | tags: defense, island, semiconductor

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White House mulling tariff exemptions for Big Tech — Amazon, Google, Microsoft, other AI hyperscalers to be spared worst of import duties with U.S.-Taiwan deal (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-10 | by Jowi Morales | get Cloud → | tags: billion, chip, chips

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'Impossible': Taiwan pushes back against Washington’s 40% chip supply relocation goal (cnbc.com)

2026-02-10 | by Dylan Butts | get Semiconductors → | tags: billion, chain, cnbc

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Taiwan rebuffs U.S. push to absorb 40% of its chip supply chain (cnbc.com)

2026-02-10 | by Dylan Butts | get Semiconductors → | tags: billion, chip, semiconductor

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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 | get Semiconductor → | 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 | get Artificial Intelligence → | 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 | get Advanced AI Semiconductors → | 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 | get Semiconductor → | tags: billion, market, memory

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Researcher builds bizarre 128-byte USB drive the size of a dinner plate using ancient pre-semiconductor magnetic core memory technology — data disappears once it is read, requiring special handling (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-01 | by Mark Tyson | get Magnetic Core Memory → | tags: core, core memory, magnetic

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China moves into manufacturing disruptive new semiconductor glass substrates as processor packaging competition intensifies (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-30 | by Luke James | get Semiconductor glass substrates → | tags: chinese, core, glass

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Memory chip shortage to last through 2027, semiconductor boss says (cnbc.com)

2026-01-26 | by Arjun Kharpal | get Memory chips → | tags: ai infrastructure, cnbc, continue

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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 | get Toto → | tags: analysts, chucks, expertise

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A timeline of the US semiconductor market in 2025 (techcrunch.com)

2026-01-21 | by Rebecca Szkutak | get Microprocessors → | tags: china, chip, chips

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Chinese semiconductor industry gears up for domestic HBM3 production by the end of 2026 — CXMT to produce chips, while Naura, Maxwell, and U-Preseason design tools for assembly (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-21 | by Anton Shilov | get HBM3 → | tags: china, chinese, cxmt

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

2026-01-16 | get Nanotechnology → | tags: believe, billion, earnings

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

2026-01-16 | get Nanopore → | tags: believe, chips, earnings

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U.S. slashes Taiwan tariffs in new semiconductor trade deal — Washington to reduce tariffs to 15% in exchange for $500 billion stateside manufacturing investment (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-16 | by Jowi Morales | get Semiconductors → | tags: advanced, america, billion

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

2026-01-16 | by Yeo Boon Ping | get Smartphone → | 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 | get Smartphone → | tags: european, markets, profit