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Stop Hunting, Start Solving: Accelerating Root Cause Analysis with Agentic AI (spectrum.ieee.org)

2026-08-21 | tags: agentic ai, semiconductor analytics, yield analysis

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China's CXMT targets 30% DRAM memory market share by 2030 with sixth mega-fab — future plans bottlenecked by access to advanced chipmaking tools (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-05 | by Anton Shilov | tags: capacity, china, cxmt

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TSMC plans include at least four more 2nm fabs in $100 billion Arizona expansion (techspot.com)

2026-07-16 | by Rob Thubron | tags: tsmc, 2nm fabs, arizona expansion

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Jim Keller's startup is building a factory to mass-produce small semiconductor fabs —Atomic Semi rebrands as 'Fab2' underlining intended role as a 'fab fab' (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-05 | by Luke James | get Semiconductor Manufacturing Kit → | tags: fabs, hardware, production

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South Korea unveils $520 billion investment plan with Samsung and SK Hynix to expand memory chip dominance — plan includes four new fabs and HBM facilities, amid strong government support (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-29 | by Etiido Uko | get Samsung Memory Chip Kit → | tags: samsung electronics, sk hynix, memory chips

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Micron locks in historically high memory prices for five years (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-26 | by Simon Sharwood | get Micron Memory Storage Kit → | tags: micron, sanjay mehrotra, memory prices

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Micron Locks In Historically High Memory Prices For Five Years (slashdot.org)

2026-06-25 | get Micron Memory Module → | tags: micron, sanjay mehrotra, memory prices

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TSMC CEO C.C. Wei says, ‘It will be a long time before we can meet customer demand’ — tells shareholders that he will keep prices stable, refrain from implementing price hikes (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-04 | by Jowi Morales | get TSMC 7nm Chip Kit → | tags: arizona, demand, expected

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Angry TSMC employees considering strikes, unionization over employee bonuses, report claims — company reportedly considering 15% payout cut to fund capex despite record revenues fuelled by AI surge (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-26 | by Luke James | get TSMC Employee Union Hoodie → | tags: tsmc, ai chips, 2nm

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Intel stock jumps 28%, setting a record, after it posts strong Q1 with rising forecasts — Intel says yields are improving faster than expected with new nodes (tomshardware.com)

2026-04-24 | by Anton Shilov | get Intel Core i9 Processor → | tags: intel, mobileye, data center

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TSMC reportedly plans to build 12 fabs, four packaging facilities in Arizona — plan purportedly part of Taiwan's agreed $500 million investment in the US (tomshardware.com)

2026-04-03 | by Anton Shilov | get TSMC Chip Manufacturing Kit → | tags: tsmc, arizona, fabs

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STMicro to deploy humanoid robots to its legacy fabs in Europe — over 100 humanoid robots to be used for routine and physically demanding tasks in fight for efficiency (tomshardware.com)

2026-03-16 | by Anton Shilov | get Robotics Humanoid Assistant Kit → | tags: stmicroelectronics, humanoid robots, fabs

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Micron acquires PSMC fab site in Taiwan for $1.8 billion, acquisition to expand the memory maker's operations within the region — move marks the end of the technology-for-capacity era (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-20 | by Anton Shilov | get Memory → | tags: capacity, dram, fabs

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Chinese fabs are reportedly upgrading older ASML DUV lithography chipmaking machines — secondary channels and independent engineers used to soup up Twinscan NXT series (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-22 | by Luke James | get NXT Series → | tags: asml, chinese, fabs

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Micron says New York chipmaking fabs still on track according to its latest timelines — accelerates second fab in Idaho and reallocates CHIPS Act funding (Updated) (tomshardware.com)

2025-11-10 | by Anton Shilov | get Microchip → | tags: construction, fabs, idaho

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Micron delays New York chipmaking fabs by five years, but accelerates second fab in Idaho and reallocates CHIPS Act funding (tomshardware.com)

2025-11-10 | by Anton Shilov | get NAND → | tags: fabs, micron, new york

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Online shopping is full of copycats (theverge.com)

2025-10-31 | by Mia Sato | get Meta Quest → | tags: email, experience, fabscrap