Starlink Slowdown in Ukraine Draws Calls for a Congressional Inquiry
Representative Mike Turner said on CBS’s Face the Nation that Congress needs to establish what happened to the satellite links Ukrainian forces use for battlefield communications and drone operations. “There…
Samsung Pays Its Memory Researchers Like Memory Staff
SUWON, South Korea — In Korean chipmaking, the pay stub has become an organizing principle. Samsung Electronics Co. has created a “Core Team” inside its Semiconductor Research Institute, the main…
Japan’s First 3-Nanometer Line Comes With a Capacity Caveat
The approval that mattered arrived on October 16, from a ministry rather than a customer. Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry signed off on a revised plan for the…
Intel Asks the FCC for Permission to Keep Its Factory Robots Running
The machine is a cart on wheels, and its job is to carry a sealed pod of silicon wafers from one tool to the next without a human hand touching…
Britain Tells Apple to Open the Tap-to-Pay Chip
For a decade the only way to pay for a coffee with an iPhone in Britain has been Apple’s own wallet, because the chip that talks to the terminal answers…
A $26 Billion Bid for a $900 Million Anchor Book
The anchor book for Jio Platforms was 8,110 crore rupees, about 920 million dollars, and by the time it closed on Monday evening it had drawn bids of more than…
Samsung Has Already Sold Most of What It Will Make in 2027
Eighty percent of the memory chips Samsung Electronics plans to make in 2027 has already been claimed by buyers, and most of those commitments were signed before the company finished…
A London Cloud Region Fails, and the Payments Stop With It
The status page began posting errors in the morning and kept posting them. Multiple Google Cloud services in the company’s London region were disrupted on October 20, and Revolut, the…
Micron’s Taiwan Workers Set a One-Day Strike Over Profit Sharing
The vote was 1,994 in favor and 14 against, which is not the margin of a union testing its strength. Members of the Micron Technology union at the company’s Taoyuan…
Qualcomm Sends Its Cuts Through the Annual Review
The memo does not use the word layoffs. It describes a company reorganizing around performance and tightening costs, and it says notifications will begin in November, which is when Qualcomm…
