SK Hynix Backs Its Suppliers, and the Risk Moves to the State
The signing took place on Monday at a promotion center for the chip cluster in Yongin, south of Seoul, on ground where SK hynix is building fabs that will not…
Forty-Seven Projects That Were Supposed to Be Running by Now
The announcement is the easy document. A developer names a county, a capacity figure and a date, and the press release reads like a commitment. The documents that follow are…
Michigan Township Approves Google Data Center Site Plan Despite Residents’ Objections
Residents of a township in Wayne County, Michigan, brought the same two complaints to the planning department that their counterparts have brought in a dozen states: the water, and the…
Apple Pushes iPhone Duo Buyers Online as Stores Turn Away Walk-Ins
On the morning the iPhone Duo went on sale, the line outside Apple’s stores formed the way it has for a decade: folding chairs, coffee, a few people who had…
Qualcomm Disputes Korean Test Results That Its New Snapdragon Runs Hot
The report reached Seoul’s technology press on Oct. 17: under sustained load, Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 ran hot enough to raise questions about whether Samsung would use…
Microsoft Exits a UK Data Center Deal as the Grid Sets the Timetable
The site is in Loughton, in Essex, a short drive northeast of London, on land that has been cleared for a data hall and prepared for equipment that has not…
Toyota Plans to Put Its Software Platform in Every Car by 2030
At an investor technology briefing in Japan earlier this month, Toyota Motor put a number on a slide that its engineers had been circling for five years. By 2030, roughly…
Anthropic Signs Its First Canadian Data Center Lease: 420 Megawatts for 20 Years
Point Tupper is a deep-water site on the Strait of Canso, in Cape Breton, where a pulp mill once ran and where the wind now blows hard enough that the…
CERN and Mistral Will Train a Physics Model on Collision Data
CERN already holds about one exabyte of data from the Large Hadron Collider, roughly a million terabytes of recorded collisions. On October 15 the laboratory signed a letter of intent…
Apple’s First Foldable Sold Out Its First Run in About 30 Minutes
Apple opened preorders for the iPhone Duo, its first folding phone, at 8 a.m. on October 16. Within roughly half an hour, every color and storage configuration had slipped from…
