The U.S. government is apparently mulling over the decision to replace indefinite wafer fab equipment export permissions for Samsung and SK hynix's with annual licenses. The decision will add significant regulatory complexity, but will at least maintain continuity for fab operations, which means no disruption to the highly-volatile global supply of DRAM and NAND memory, reports Bloomberg .

Previously, Samsung and SK hynix operated under validated end-user (VEU) status, which granted them blanket approval to import restricted

Software engineer Makerinator has shared the details of a project which he light heartedly claims “saved my marriage.” The Decisioninator was designed and produced to “optimize and automate” navigating the often tricky question ‘What do you want for dinner tonight?’ However, as with any good project, its design meant that it could be expanded to cover similarly tricky decisions covering the allocation of chores, date night venues, and movie night video stream choices.

We've seen our fair share of modified GPUs from China — a region restricted from receiving most high-end cards . These export controls imposed by the The White House have created an underground market where gaming-grade graphics cards are stripped of their internals and put onto custom PCBs designed for AI workloads. AI requires a lot of memory, and despite former flagship GPUs like the RTX 4090 already coming with large memory buffers, it's still not enough for tasks such

Berlin's IFA trade show is often dominated by appliances, home audio, smart home, and other consumer tech. But last year's show saw the launch of Intel's Lunar Lake silicon and lower-cost Snapdragon X Plus chips from Qualcomm, proving IFA can also be

TSMC has more than doubled its Arizona internship program, pulling in over 200 students from around 60 colleges this summer as it races to staff its advanced-node fabs just outside Phoenix. Just a year ago, that figure stood at 130. In 2023, it was only 16. Speaking to Phoenix Business Journal , TSMC Arizona president Rose Castanares said “we’re really scaling up,” noting that about 30 of this year’s

Intel's 14A manufacturing technology (1.4nm-class) technology — the company's first fabrication process that was designed both for Intel and its foundry customers from the ground up — will be more expensive to use than the company's upcoming 18A production node according to Intel. The reason for that will be use of ASML's next-generation Twinscan EXE:5200B High-NA lithography machine with a 0.55

An engineer has tapped into Apple’s LidAngleSensor MacBook API to create an app which displays the angle read from the sensor on the screen. Though a cool and worthy tool in its own right, Sam Gold’s app is elevated to a higher plane as it also includes an audio feedback option to “play a wooden door creaking sound if you adjust it reeaaaaaal slowly.” A video demonstration is embedded below,

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