In a surprising move, China has decided to restrict global helium supplies. The export ban appears to be blanket, but given China's limited market share of the global helium industry, it is unlikely to cause significant disruption in the semiconductor fabrication industry. Estimates from the US Geological Survey suggest that the US is the world's leading helium producer and is followed by Qatar, Russia, Algeria, and Canada.

Helium is used in several key phases of semiconductor fabrication . These include different categories of deposition, cooling the

AI chatbots are notorious for hallucinating, but what about the companies behind those Large Language Models like Anthropic? One Korean software developer could add to that, given he just faced a soul-crushing experience where he was billed a ludicrous $16.6 million for using its Claude API.

The horrifying part about this ordeal was that it wasn’t a sophisticated phishing attempt or an elaborate scam; the source was a verified Anthropic billing domain. What’s even more perplexing is that the developer’s dashboard stated

Intel demonstrates the various use cases of its EMIB-T advanced packaging solution at ECTC26, as the tech is poised to become an industry favorite.

The era of advanced packaging solutions is in full swing, and there are only a few companies that offer the level of technical expertise and precision to make next-generation chips that are going to power AI, HPC and the Client segments.

At IEEE 2026 (ECTC), Intel demonstrated its next-generation packaging and substrate solution in full force.

The quest to be the first foundry in advanced lithography is slowly being less and less prioritized by Samsung, as a new Exynos chipset roadmap reveals that the Korean giant will stick to its 2nm GAA node for a few years before finally taking a leap of faith towards 1.4nm. Thanks to this delay, TSMC will potentially beat Samsung as the first semiconductor manufacturer to introduce its sub-2nm process, but that’s no disadvantage.

With TSMC expected to commence mass production of its 1.4nm

T-Mobile these days is a gift that keeps on giving, and that too of the toxic, malignant kind, and not the cutesy ones you'd want for your birthdays.

First, the carrier foisted its T-Life app on its customer base, and now it wants to populate the app with "richer account profiles," presumably in a bid to serve you targeted ads.

T-Mobile has just published an official blog post to declare that its T-Life app is "evolving beyond account management

The RTX 5090 Edition 20 turned out to be incredibly expensive, as expected. However, it's not over $7,000 as we previously assumed.

A few days ago, we saw the ROG Astral RTX 5090 Edition 20 listed on an EU store LDLC. It was listed for over $7,000 after conversion from Euros to USD, but since the hardware incurs VAT, the prices in EU are much higher than in the US. Still

The word "cost" seems to be everywhere these days, especially in the consumer electronics sphere, where it's on the verge of adopting the hallowed status of an axiom. And worryingly, even Apple appears vulnerable now, particularly if the latest Weibo-sourced tidbit on the base iPhone 17's production lines pans out.

According to a machine-translated version of the most recent Weibo post by the tipster Fixed Focus Digital, Apple has curtailed some base iPhone 17 production lines by as much as

Around three weeks ago, Chinese indie developer Jotoyo unveiled Monster Fantasy , an interesting game that blends elements from Monster Hunter, Animal Crossing, and Stardew Valley, among others.

The game is targeting a simultaneous PC and console release (though it remains to be seen whether it can pull it off) and will soon seek funding on Kickstarter , though the crowdfunding campaign has been delayed from July 15 to after the first public playtest, scheduled for September via Steam .

Meanwhile, we reached out to Jotoyo to learn more about