AI regulation enforcement arrived on three continents in one week: the EU AI Act's transparency layer went live, China issued its first companion-AI fines,…
SMIC reported a Q2 net profit of $479.2 million, surpassing expectations, with revenue up 36 percent. While the firm is enhancing production to address…
Apple is testing DRAM chips from ChangXin Memory Technologies, a Chinese supplier flagged by the Trump administration for military ties, amid a global memory…
The Firebird AI factory needs 300 megawatts in a country whose grid peaks near 1,300 and leans on an aging Russian-fuelled reactor and Russian…
Chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) is crucial for achieving sub-nanometer flatness in semiconductor manufacturing. Hwatsing Technology integrates metrology in its new tool to enhance efficiency…
Samsung and SK Hynix have quietly tested Chinese chip manufacturing tools from AMEC in their Chinese factories for two years, amid concerns over U.S.…
Alibaba's Qwen team launched the Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4 trillion parameter model, outperforming competitors in key benchmarks. While it promises "open weights" soon, skepticism remains…
Qualcomm's aggressive 2026 strategy aims to reinvent the company amid threats from Apple's in-house chip development. They face pressures in the mobile sector while…
DeepSeek's V4-Flash model is significantly cheaper than competitors like Anthropic's Claude Fable 5, sparking a divide in Silicon Valley over the use of affordable…
Eleven governments issued a warning that live video interviews no longer ensure identity verification, as North Korean workers use advanced deepfake technology to bypass…
PLA Unit 96941 developed a method to summarize sensitive military code by distilling outputs from GPT-3.5 into a domestic model, avoiding direct API risks.…
In 2026, AI liability laws' landscape shifted dramatically. California eased court access for AI harm victims, while Europe withdrew an extensive liability directive, complicating…
China's yuan-denominated integrated circuit exports surged 88.7% in early 2025, driven by global AI demand, though currency depreciation and outsourced assembly inflate figures. Despite…
The upcoming World Radiocommunication Conference in Shanghai will be significant for 6G spectrum allocation, with the U.S. leading a coalition of over twenty nations…
China's first homegrown immersion DUV lithography tool order includes five machines this year and twenty next year. This development signals a shift in the…
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