Intel CEO Bets on Diamond Cooling and a New Foundry Chief to Fix the Heat Problem
The room at the WAVES conference, an industry gathering focused on advanced packaging and thermal management, was full of engineers who make their living moving heat out of chips. When…
Tesla Opens Driverless Robotaxi Service to the Public in Austin
The car that pulled up to the curb in downtown Austin on Sunday had no steering wheel and no one in the driver’s seat, and the passenger who climbed in…
ASML Denies EUV Parts Reached China as Export Dispute Widens
The question arrived in the form of a trade publication report, and it touched the most sensitive nerve in the global chip industry. Electronics Weekly reported that U.S. Commerce Department…
SpaceX’s First Week on the Public Market Ends With $50 Billion in Value Erased
The stock that investors queued for months to buy is now teaching them a lesson about gravity. SpaceX, trading on the Nasdaq under the ticker SPCX, fell more than 3…
Chip Makers Move 2D Transistors From Papers to Wafers
The wafer that came off the line this month looked ordinary, but the transistors on it were not. ASML, TSMC and the research institute imec said they had integrated transistors…
Japan’s Go Plots Robotaxi Push After Record IPO
Go’s chief executive had been hearing the same question since his company’s listing in Tokyo: what are you going to do with the money? This week he gave an answer.…
Washington Suspects ASML’s Most Advanced Chip Tool Reached China. ASML Says No.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has told senior ASML executives in a series of recent meetings that he is concerned one of the Dutch company’s most advanced chipmaking machines may have…
Tesla’s Cybercab Specs Surface in EPA Filings: Light, Fast Enough, and Cheap to Build
The numbers were sitting in a federal filing all along. Environmental Protection Agency documents posted this week disclose the full technical specifications of Tesla’s Cybercab, the robotaxi the company unveiled…
Go’s $580 Million Tokyo Listing Becomes Japan’s Largest IPO of the Year
The gong sounded on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and, for the first time in years, the traders on the floor had something to cheer. Go, Japan’s leading ride-hailing operator, completed…
Apple and Intel Team Up to Build Chips in America, Opening a Third Foundry Lane
The announcement came from the White House, not from Cupertino. President Trump said Apple will work with Intel to design and manufacture chips in the United States, a partnership that,…
