Earlier this year, TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.) said that it had deployed around 50% of all extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography tools installed and run worldwide, which means that it uses more EUV machines than any other company in the industry. According to a Digitimes report , TSMC plans to stay ahead and has already placed an order for over a dozen of ASML's Twinscan NXE EUV scanners due to be delivered next year.

13 EUV Tools Ordered, More

Following up Apple’s new initiative to move its own Arm-based chips , Amazon yesterday said that the AWS data centers for its cloud-based Alexa and facial recognition services will also be moving from Nvidia processors to custom Amazon chips.

This marks the latest in a trend of major tech companies choosing to take their processing in-house. It’s also not the first time Amazon’s made this move, as most of its other AWS servers now run on the company’

Apparently, we haven't seen the best of what Samsung B-die integrated circuits (ICs) have to offer yet. The latest chatter from the SMZDM forums (via harukaze5719 ) is that Chinese manufacturer Colorful is preparing some elite Samsung B-die memory kits. The new iGame series is rumored to debut by the end of November.

At first sight, the iGame series looks like your typical budget memory that you can pick up

If Nvidia has things it's way, AMD's latest new performance-boosting technology for RX 6000 "Big Navi" graphics cards might not be a huge advantage, after all.

According to a statement Nvidia gave to Gamer's Nexus , the company says it will soon enable a feature similar to AMD's Smart Access Memory (SAM) tech on its Ampere graphics cards. In fact, Nvidia already has the feature working in its labs.

Additionally,

If you've ever had the chance to spend time with space engineers, you learn really fast they like to tinker. It's not surprising that this team from NASA has been working on a cool Raspberry Pi project that mimics the International Space Station (ISS) via a robotic replica .

The project is dubbed the ISS Mimic. It's a 1% scale model of the actual ISS. Most of the components are 3D printed; A total of 12 motors

AMD's Ryzen 4000 (codename Renoir) mobile APUs haven't even been out for a year yet, and there's already talks of a potential refresh on the horizon. The Ryzen 7 5700U, which reportedly goes by the alias Lucienne, is the first of the Ryzen 5000 APUs to show up in benchmarks.

It's unclear what AMD has in plans for Lucienne or what recipe the chipmaker is using for the Ryzen

Apple’s new Silicon-based laptops are gearing up to be genuinely exciting, more powerful additions to the Apple lineup, but there’s a catch that’s got some Apple fans worried: program compatibility. Because Apple Silicon uses a unique new architecture, apps built for previous chips aren’t always going to have native support for Silicon MacBooks. Apple’s got emulation-based workarounds for everything from games to productivity favorites, but whether Microsoft Office will have native support has

In an effort to clear the air, WD has now altered the model numbers and SMART reporting for several of its "5400 RPM-class" hard drive models to reflect the fact that the drives actually spin at 7,200 RPM (originally reported by Heise.de ).

Through clever use of acoustical equipment, recent sleuthing by hardware detectives unearthed that WD's "5400 RPM-class" hard drives don't actually spin at 5

Historically, industrial-grade SSDs have had to offer reliability, endurance and extended temperatures support. Today, they also need to feature high capacity, plus high performance. To that end, a number of the best SSD makers started to offer industrial-class drives in M.2 form-factors in recent years. Western Digital wasn't one of them -- until this week. On Tuesday, the brand introduced its first M.2 SSDs for emerging automotive, industrial and