Omdia puts global semiconductor revenue above $425 billion for the second quarter of 2026, up 31.4% on the first quarter. That beats the sequential record of 29.2% set only three months earlier…
Global semiconductor revenue passed $425 billion in the second quarter of 2026, up 31.4% from the first, according to Omdia. That’s the fastest sequential growth the firm has recorded since it started…
Brussels has rebuilt its Grand-Place before. French artillery under Marshal Villeroy flattened most of the square in August 1695, and the guilds had their houses standing again within about four years…
OpenAI has bought Glass Imaging, a Los Altos startup that makes camera software for smartphones, for more than $300 million. The Wall Street Journal reported the deal on Monday. Neither company has…
Most laws aimed at the most powerful AI models decide who is covered by counting training compute. The unit is FLOP, the total number of floating-point operations used to train a model. This page…
Backcasting is a planning method that starts with a defined future outcome and works back to the present, asking what has to happen (and in what order) for that outcome to be reached. Forecasting runs…
Since 2023 China has built a licensing system around the minerals and metals it dominates. The controls started with gallium and germanium and now cover rare earths, graphite, battery materials and…
A “3nm” chip has no important feature that measures 3 nanometres. Node names stopped describing physical sizes decades ago and now work as generation labels, each one promising a denser, more…
US export controls and sanctions come with a thick layer of acronyms. News stories about Nvidia, Huawei or chip tools often use them without explanation. This glossary defines the terms that come up…
Subsea cables carry almost all international internet traffic, and they break often. The industry records roughly 150 to 200 faults a year, most caused by fishing gear and ship anchors in shallow…