Weekly jobless claims rise in line with estimates Moderna and Pfizer in place as FDA clears updated COVID boosters Exxon climbs after strengthening its buyback program Indices up: Dow 0.55%, S&P 0.75%, Nasdaq 1.13% Dec 8 (Reuters) – The S&P 500 (.SPX) ended higher on Thursday, ending a five-game losing streak as investors interpreted data …
Apple plans to start using American-made processors after opening a new state-of-the-art chip factory in Phoenix, Arizona. For factory customers, which also include AMD and NVIDIA, the new facility means more secure chip supply and faster production times. Chipmaker TSMC also said today that it will begin construction of a second factory in Phoenix next …
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company to more than triple its investment in the US state of Arizona to $40 billion as geopolitical tensions push the world’s largest contract chipmaker to accelerate the diversification of its production facilities . TSMC is currently investing $12 billion in building a manufacturing or “fab” facility in Arizona that was originally …
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Could this be the future of laptop cooling? On Thursday, a San Jose-based company showed off a new cooling system for electronics that not only runs quieter than traditional fans, but also promises to help laptops achieve even better performance. The cooling system is called the “AirJet” chip and comes from Frore Systems(Opens in a …
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November 30 (Reuters) – Elon Musk said on Wednesday he expected a wireless brain chip developed by his company Neuralink to begin human clinical trials in six months, after the company missed the deadlines he had set. The company is developing brain chip interfaces that it says could help disabled patients move and communicate again, …
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China has tapped tech giants Alibaba and Tencent to help it design semiconductor chips, as Beijing braces for new US sanctions aimed at suppressing Chinese computing power. The Chinese government has set up a consortium of companies and research institutes, including the Chinese Academy of Sciences, to create new intellectual property on the chips. Beijing …
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hong kong CNN Business — Two European chip deals have run into trouble over their ties to China, a sign of concern spreading in the West about China’s potential control over critical infrastructure. Last week the new owner of Britain’s biggest chipmaker was ordered to reverse its takeover, just days after another chip factory sale …
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