Apple and Meta worked together so that Meta’s new open-weight model, Muse Spark Open, runs on Apple’s Mac Studio desktops. The companies revealed the work on Thursday. The two rivals had not struck a public partnership since 2017, CNBC reported. Meta c…
Apple chief executive John Ternus told TIME that “all options should be on the table” on memory chips, after reports that Apple tested Chinese-made memory. Ternus took over as CEO on 1 September. He is on the cover of TIME’s 2026 Best Inventions issue,…
TSMC made a record net profit of NT$763.1bn ($23.59bn) in the third quarter, up 69% on a year earlier. That beat the NT$746.3bn LSEG SmartEstimate, Reuters reported. Revenue rose 51% to NT$1.49tn, or 41.2% to $46.72bn in US dollar terms, according to T…
“The jury’s verdict confirms that Arm operated in good faith under its technology license agreement and its award of only two dollars confirms the merit of Arm’s arguments in the case,” Arm said in a statement. A federal jury in Delaware found on 13 Oc…
“Right now, the whole industry is in short supply,” GlobalFoundries CEO Tim Breen told Bloomberg. Japan will put up to $21bn into two new chip factories at GlobalFoundries’ site in Malta, New York, the company announced on 14 October. GlobalFoundries (…
Taiwan is expanding the Foreign Trade Act to include AI servers and semiconductors in its list of controlled exports.
Chinese startup Langdao Silex showcased its laser-produced plasma EUV source at a trade show, but the technology will likely take many years before it gets to decent EUV power levels. Even if it does, China will need many more advancements to build a practical EUV lithography tool.
“Some of the companies at the forefront of AI are telling Qualcomm, ‘By 2028, I need to make sure that I have the ability to run at least a hundred billion parameter model into a phone.’” Qualcomm chief executive Cristiano Amon said this on Sources, Al…
This $4 billion industrial park would make it easier for smaller Taiwanese companies who can’t afford to build their own sites in the U.S. to expand and follow major Taiwanese manufacturers like TSMC and Foxconn.
The EU is reportedly negotiating with Beijing to remove Chinese restrictions on German ASML supplier Sindlhauser Materials, to prevent the China-dependent company from going out of business