#techindustry — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #techindustry, aggregated by home.social.
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LG enters chip packaging arena with Laser Direct Imaging machine, as TSMC's CoWoS remains constrained — maskless machine is designed to pattern fine interconnects, trading resolution for higher throughput
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Unlock Tom's Hardware Premium's Hot Chips 2026 coverage for free — sign up for an account to read technical breakdowns from the show
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Supermicro fires several employees following investigation into $2.5 billion China AI chip smuggling — claims that senior management had no knowledge of illicit transactions
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Micron commits $10 billion to new US-based Research Labs — Boise hub to target post-DRAM and NAND technologies and packaging
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H200 AI GPUs finally reach China under case-by-case import licenses, but it's already too late for Nvidia — homemade chips corner the China market as country seeks semiconductor independence
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Nvidia denies report it will ship Groq-based LPUs to China by year-end — says there is 'no China-specific LPU product in our roadmap'
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Slovakia discovers Russian backdoors in 279 new traffic cameras — SMS-triggered shell access and passwordless live feeds found in EU-funded rollout
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Michigan township combats nuclear weapons data center by passing ban on new electrical infrastructure — 220,000-square-foot hyperscale project is backed by University of Michigan and the Los Alamos National Laboratory
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TechJuice: Google Officially Launches Pakistan Office in Landmark Digital Expansion. “Google has formally opened its local office in Pakistan, a move Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and company officials described as a major step toward deepening technology cooperation. The inauguration took place on Tuesday when a Google delegation, led by the Global Affairs Vice President of Google Wilson L […]
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Politico: Brussels changes gear on Big Tech enforcement. “The fines against Google bring the total bill for breaches of the Digital Markets Act to €1.6 billion — a sum that pales in comparison with the antitrust fines of yesteryear. The EU’s highest court recently upheld a €4.1 billion abuse-of-dominance fine against Google dating back to 2018 — an era when Brussels resorted to brute […]
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Synopsys validates a PCIe 6.0 PHY inside a face-to-face 3D stack at 64 GT/s — says it got there by pulling apart an existing 2D test chip
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Virginia county with 250 data centers begins to rein in building — Loudoun’s more than 250 data centers made it one of the richest counties in the US, but residents are pushing back
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The supercomputer race no longer means what it used to, as rankings lose relevance in the AI era — as privately held compute clusters are built, running HPL becomes a distraction
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SMIC posts record $3B quarter and hikes wafer prices — US sanctions hand Chinese foundry a captive AI market
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Amazon delivery drone dumps Texas woman's parcel straight into her swimming pool — viral video surfaces the same week the company announces 500-city Prime Air expansion
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@bignose Living in the states that makes me happy to see and all the more depressed that we can’t seem to get solar moving here. I keep thinking with all these data centers they’ll WANT to ramp up renewable energy since the grid can’t handle it. Somehow seemingly nope.
#renewableenergy #solar #solarenergy #datacenters #techindustry
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Samsung raises advanced foundry prices by up to 15% as AI demand fills its 4nm lines, report claims — Chinese customers accepting the largest hikes
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China shifting massive AI data center complexes to rural provinces to tap surplus energy — ‘Eastern Data, Western Computing’ strategy has Chinese tech giants Huawei and Tencent building AI infrastructure Guizhou
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Samsung's fab roadmaps examined — Taylor, Pyeongtaek, and the yield woes behind a $16.5 billion Tesla deal
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/samsungs-fab-roadmap-examined
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Jason Kelce-led marketing campaign asks beer drinkers to send their pee to AI data centers — Liquid Death and Garage Beer skit claims 'AI data centers waste millions of gallons of water'
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Beijing AI bar that offers unlimited free DeepSeek coding tokens with $1.50 drink haemorrhaging cash — 'the bar is completely losing money, ' owner admits
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Ajinomoto reportedly cuts critical chip packaging film supply to China by 30% as domestic substitutes race to qualify — ABF restriction comes following Beijing's rare earth export curbs
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AI server boom funds $314 universal cash payout in Taiwan — President Lai Ching-te says the payout ensures the country's AI windfall 'can be shared by all,' 11% GDP growth and $903B export surge finance $7.4B dividend
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Dev uses Claude AI to create native macOS driver for 'obscure' Windows-only printer — Linux container hack enables system-wide Cmd-P printing, driver now available on Github
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White House cuts data centers, batteries, and AR from the US critical technology list — post-quantum cryptography, integrated photonics, high entropy alloys among new additions
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Associated Press: Maryland tax court voids digital ad tax, orders refunds to Apple, Google and Peacock TV. “A Maryland state tax court has struck down the state’s first-in-the-nation tax on digital advertising and ordered state officials to repay the tax money already collected from big tech firms.”
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DJI scores a win in fight against US ban, appeals court orders fresh review of firm's 'Chinese military company' designation — drone maker will stay on Pentagon list while a judge examines classified evidence for the first time
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AMD claims its 2026 rack-scale AI solution is 4X more energy efficient than its 2024 AI platform — company says it's pacing ahead of 20X efficiency by 2030
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Judge allegedly outsourced entire ruling to AI and still can't be sued — federal court upholds blanket judicial immunity
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Secret tracking device placed in rare book ends up in Amazon processing facility — destroying books to train AI models is 'all' the Vegas warehouse does