Need a robot? Don’t have $100,000? Want more than a toy that dances? There are now multiple humanoid robots that fit the bill …
Intel’s Naga Chandrasekaran now claims that Intel 14A node will deliver performance ‘within 5%’ of TSMC’s A14 technology, a claim that requires a closer examination.

ASML calls EU authorities to help create demand for European chips as Europe’s share in its revenue drops to 0% in 2026.
Figure committed to spending billions on training data. Just 4 weeks after the announcement, the data has delivered a 6X boost in humanoid robot performance.
Humanoid robots will do about 50% of the tasks we want robots to do, CEO YT Jia told me. That’s why we need multiple robot form factors, he adds.
Elon Musk’s Terafab semiconductor project has run into an unexpected trademark dispute with Tera-print, a small U.S. company that has used the Tera-Fab name for its tabletop lithography equipment for about a decade.

As many semiconductor fabs and facilities go online in the 2030s and beyond, a global consulting firm said that these sites will need thousands of engineers and technicians that the U.S. will be hard-pressed to fill.

With progress that ASML makes with its LPP EUV light sources for its scanners, the company is barely interesting in adopting particle accelerator-based FEL sources.
Nanya-backed DRAM designer PieceMakers began trading in Taipei on Sept. 16 on a bet that AI inference memory won’t be HBM.
Nvidia CEO thinks that in light of his view of a three- to four-year timeline for Chinese development of advanced semi tooling, the country is “already there.”