Advanced Nodes

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Intel's $11 Billion Mirage

Intel just posted an $11B loss — and the stock jumped ~12%.

24 Jul 20262:00tip inside

Two Machines, One Chip Layer

Intel just ran the same 18A chip layer on a ~$380M High-NA EUV machine AND a standard scanner — and got matched yield (first high-volume High-NA logic ever, July 15).

24 Jul 20262:01tip inside

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Chips Just Got Flipped Over — Why Your Next AI Chip Gets Power From the Back

For sixty years, a computer chip carried its power and its data on the same side — the front. As transistors shrank to 2nm, that surface ran out of room: the fat power wires choke the thin signal wires and the transistors droop, quietly capping speed.

18 Jul 20262:54tip inside