Lithography

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AMD Just Bought an AI Chip That Can Never Be Updated

On 6 August 2026 AMD announced it was acquiring Taalas, a Toronto startup that does something no GPU does: it etches an AI model's weights physically into the silicon. The weights live in a mask-ROM fabric where a single transistor holds a four-bit value and performs the multiplication in the same place the data sits…

20 Aug 20262:06tip inside

This $400M Machine Prints Chips in a Focus Thinner Than a Virus (Intel Went First)

This week the most expensive machine humans have ever built made its first real products — and almost nobody noticed. It's called High-NA EUV: a $400-million lithography system, twice the price of a normal chip printer, and Intel just became the first company on the planet to ship commercial chips made on it.

18 Jul 20262:40tip inside