Less than 24 hours after TSMC’s $100 billion investment in the U.S. was discussed, the world’s largest semiconductor manufacturer is all set to raise wafer prices by 10 percent next year. According to the latest details, depending on the node, the company will introduce price hikes of 5 percent to 10 percent, with the older processes also counted, making the situation difficult for companies taking a backseat with previous-generation lithography and those racing to acquire next-generation wafers
AirTag 2 Will Undoubtedly Be Your Best Friend Tracking Lost Items, Get A 4-Pack From Amazon For Just $89 And Get 50% Extended Range, Replaceable Battery & More
Losing your expensive belongings in your home, at the airport, on a trip, or anywhere else brings a level of panic and despair never felt or described before, which is why it’s imperative to have a pack of AirTags on you. Fortunately, Apple doubled down on the idea that no one should lose their prized possessions, prompting it to launch the AirTag 2. We highly recommend getting the 4-pack on Amazon, which is down to $89 on the online retailer and comes with a host
Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic Remake Reportedly Nears Reveal After 3 Years of Saber Rebuilding It From Scratch
The Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic remake was announced a while back, but the game has yet to release, let alone be properly revealed. Since its announcement , it has gone through some rather tumultuous development , shifting from Aspyr Media to Saber Interactive , and the long silence on it was only broken earlier this year by Saber CCO Tim Willits , who confirmed that development is continuing . According to reliable insider 100% Star Wars , the plan is still to reveal the game before the end of 2
Edge of Memories Developer Midgar Studio Has Shut Down, As No Acquirer Was Found Despite Every Effort
Earlier this year, French publisher Nacon filed for insolvency , which caused the same for some of its studios , including Cyanide , developers of the Styx series, Spiders and a few others. Edge of Eternity and Edge of Memories developer Midgar Studi o was also among the studios impacted by Nacon's fall , but there was still a sliver of hope for the French development studio , as it was actively seeking an acquirer . Unfortunately, no one bought the studio in the required timeframe, as founder Jérémy
EUV Machinery To Remain Paramount For China’s Commercial Chip Rise, Says Zeiss CEO, Doesn’t Believe Multi-Patterning Approach With Low Yields Is Viable Long-Term
One of the more interesting conversations is how China is managing its chipmaking endeavors with the U.S. export controls in place that bar the country from getting its hands on cutting-edge EUV equipment from Dutch manufacturer ASML. This massive roadblock has forced the country’s biggest semiconductor foundries to resort to using multi-patterning techniques with DUV machinery, but German manufacturer Zeiss CEO Frank Rohmund states that this won’t help propel the region from a commercial standpoint.
China’s advanced node capability to remain at 7nm
China’s Domestic Chip Shipments To Surge To 5 Million Unites This Year, Says Report
Chinese domestic chips could reach 5 million units in 2026, according to an expert hosted by Deutsche Bank. With the country cut off from advanced AI chips by US sanctions, most of its domestic chip manufacturing requirements are met by the Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) and the Shanghai Huahong Grace Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation. Chinese firm Moonshot's Kimi K3 AI, which the firm claims was trained exclusively on domestic chips.
China's domestic industry is facing pressure to keep up with local demand as the
NVIDIA Is Secretly Acquiring Massive Dark Fiber Capacity Across The US, With Total Bandwidth Potentially Reaching An Unbelievable 7.6 Petabits/Sec
NVIDIA is quietly playing a very shrewd game, one that rids it of dependence on hyperscalers, while allowing it to offer turnkey AI factories and GPU-as-a-Service directly to enterprises across the US.
First, Needham disclosed in June 2026 that NVIDIA was working on a "massive" telecom network project that could cost between $5 billion and $10 billion over the coming 3 years.
AMD Unveils Helios, Its Next-Gen AI Powerhouse With MI455X & 6th Gen EPYC, Challenging NVIDIA’s Rack-Scale Dominance
AMD has unveiled its next-generation Helios AI Rack, which aims to become the leading solution for frontier AI and sovereign computing, powered by its MI455X GPUs and 6th Gen EPYC CPUs.
It was last year at Advancing AI 2025 when AMD gave us the first glimpse at its Helios AI rack , a solution designed to meet the growing demands of AI workloads in the Agentic era. After giving us the official unveiling, we got to see the first Helios platforms in the flesh at
Microsoft Looking To Save As Much As $600 Million By Swapping GPT And Claude For China’s Kimi K3 In Copilot, Risking A Rap On The Knuckles From The Trump Administration
Ever since Microsoft transitioned its Copilot Cowork offering to a metered pricing architecture, where you pay for the number of tokens consumed, it has been eyeing open-source models from China with particular interest, especially given the materially lower inference costs that such models entail.
Now, a new report suggests that Microsoft might add Moonshot's Kimi K3 model to Copilot, risking the ire of the Trump administration in the process.
Kirin 9030 In-Depth Analysis Proves SMIC Can Create Denser SoCs Than Intel Has With Its 18A Node, But The Attributes That Require Improvements Are Left Out
The lack of access to EUV paraphernalia in any way, shape, or form has forced China’s SMIC to come up with ingenious ways to leverage its existing DUV equipment to gradually improve its 7nm manufacturing process, and with Huawei’s Kirin 9030, the semiconductor manufacturer has proven that it can stand ‘toe to toe’ with TSMC, or can it?
An in-depth look at the chipset powering the Mate 80 flagship series shows some impressive feats, such as achieving higher density than
