In Norway, electric cars took up 94% of the primary car market – Tesla leads
Norway recorded a record share of electric vehicles in the total number of new cars sold in August, Bloomberg reported. At the same time, every fifth car sold in Norway…
OpenAI has reserved TSMC’s 1.6nm capacity to produce advanced AI chips
Many sources have repeatedly mentioned that the startup OpenAI has ambitions to organize, if not the production of chips for computing accelerators, then at least their development. According to Taiwanese…
Intel Research Center in Japan will help local companies quickly master EUV lithography
According to Nikkei, Intel Corporation, with the participation of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Research and Technology (AIST), is going to build a research center in Japan that will…
TSMC is ready to build a third plant in Japan, but not this decade
A joint venture between TSMC, Sony and Denso, called JASM, is set to begin operations next quarter in Japan’s Kumamoto Prefecture. Plans for the construction of a second enterprise by…
GlobalWafers is building plants around the world in anticipation of rising customs duties
As the world’s third-largest supplier of silicon wafers, Taiwan-based GlobalWafers has been building factories outside Asia lately as it expects individual countries’ customs policies to further isolate regional semiconductor markets.…
China has surpassed all countries this year, spending $25 billion on chip manufacturing equipment.
Image source: SMIC/Tomshardware.com The surge in investment comes as China seeks to localize its chip production and reduce dependence on foreign suppliers amid growing concerns about potential trade restrictions from…
AI drawing workshop, part ten: let there be FLUX!
At the very beginning of August, the previously unknown startup Black Forest Labs, or simply BFL, presented another locally executable model for generating static images based on text prompts –…
The owner of TikTok intends to receive one of the largest loans in Asian history – $9.5 billion
The Chinese company ByteDance, which owns the short video service TikTok, is in the process of obtaining a loan in the amount of $9.5 billion for a period of three…
The fight between Musk and Brazil has reached a cosmic level: Starlink refused to block X by court decision
Satellite Internet provider Starlink, owned by Elon Musk’s SpaceX, told Brazil’s National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel) that it will not block social network X following a court order. At a minimum,…
Investors lost billions of dollars in Elon Musk’s venture to buy Twitter
When billionaire Elon Musk bought the social network Twitter, later renamed X, in 2022, he didn’t do it alone. Although the businessman paid the bulk of the $44 billion sum…