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
 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

LG rolls-out laser direct imaging lithography machine for chip packaging and high-density PCBs.

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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
 Supermicro fires several employees following investigation into $2.5 billion China AI chip smuggling — claims that senior management had no knowledge of illicit transactions

An independent investigation on Supermicro clears senior management from any wrong-doing and also says that its financial statements were still reliable, despite the alleged diversion of its restricted products. Nevertheless, some of its employees from sales, technical support, and business development departments were fired for failing to ‘follow Company policies or the Company’s code of conduct.’

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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

Micron’s Research Labs to bring together the company’s own research with research by customers, partners, universities, startups, and government organizations to develop pre-competitive IP for next-generation memory technologies.

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

Most of each company’s U.S.-licensed allowance, understood to be up to 100,000 units apiece, must stay outside the mainland.

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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’
 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’

Nvidia has rejected a report published by The Information that it plans to begin small-batch shipments of an LPU tailored for Chinese customers by the end of 2026.

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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
 Slovakia discovers Russian backdoors in 279 new traffic cameras — SMS-triggered shell access and passwordless live feeds found in EU-funded rollout

Slovakia sought to modernize its traffic control systems by acquiring a batch of 279 new speed cameras, but they have Russian backdoors and multiple other security issues.

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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

Ypsilanti Township is blocking a University of Michigan data center designed for researching nuclear weapons by temporarily stopping the electrical substation it needs to operate. It also put a one-year moratorium on the data center’s water connection request earlier this year/

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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
 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

Synopsys has published silicon results for what it calls the first 3D PCIe 6.0 test chip, a 5nm PHY built into a face-to-face stacked package.

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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

Loudoun County recently changed its zoning policy which treated data centers as office parks. These projects now have to go through an approval process from the people and the local government, a significant change after more than 25 years of easy approvals.

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