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The world's semiconductor industry hinges on a single quartz factory in North Carolina
By Mark Tyson published
The deposits formed 380 million years ago when Africa collided with North America.
Intel's Germany chip fab site yields discovery of 6,000-year-old burial mounds — no word yet about potential construction delays
By Mark Tyson published
A chariot grave was also found at the proposed Magdeburg site.
Micron shows massive 256GB DDR5-8800 memory sticks — High-capacity double-height 20-watt MCRDIMM modules come in different flavors
By Anton Shilov published
Micron demonstrates 256 GB DDR5-8800 MCRDIMM modules for Intel's Granite Rapids processors.
Samsung details petabyte SSD subscription service, uses custom-built servers
By Anton Shilov published
Samsung's PBSSD as a Service will use custom-built servers and will be available to service providers.
China-made RISC-V PCIe 5.0 SSD controller promises up to 14.2 GB/s without a fan
By Zhiye Liu published
Yingren (aka InnoGrit) has announced the YRS820, a high-end PCIe 5.0 controller for consumer SSDs based on the RISC-V architecture.
Former UPS employee stole $1.3 million in Apple merchandise — used proceeds to buy a home, pay off his Audi
By Aaron Klotz published
Former UPS employee gets caught stealing $1.3 million worth of Apple merchandise. The perpetrator used most of the money to buy a $630,000 home and pay off his $60,000 car.
US chip toolmakers skip Semicon China conference they sponsored amid ongoing trade war
By Matthew Connatser published
Several of Semicon China's U.S.-based sponsors skipped the conference, as did companies like Micron and ASML.
Raspberry Pi spins precision movement stage for beautiful up-close microchip videos
By Ash Hill published
Robert Elder is using a Raspberry Pi to operate his precision movement stage used for taking up-close video shots of microchips.
Procyon AI image generation benchmark uses Stable Diffusion — UL to release new benchmark on March 25
By Matthew Connatser published
UL Solutions is introducing a Stable Diffusion benchmark to its Procyon software next week.
Unlike Apple's chips, Qualcomm's X Elite Arm CPU will run Windows games just fine using x64 emulation — native ARM64 code will give best performance
By Christopher Harper published
Qualcomm, in a victory for Arm CPU architecture and especially itself, point toward competent gaming performance in x86 applications on its upcoming X Elite-based laptops.
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