TSMC's 2nm chips on track
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AMD beats Apple and Intel to tape-out

TSMC's 2nm process node is cruising through development and is already showing better defect rates than 3nm and 7nm did at the same stage. 

Intel dangles 3D cache tease
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Trying to copy AMD

Chipzilla might have found a way to copy AMD’s X3D cache magic, using its shiny new 18A-PT process and hybrid bonding trickery.

Chipzilla is king of packaging
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Intel plays the packaging card to keep customers 

Troubled Chipzilla has decided the path to foundry salvation runs straight through the packaging plant. It’s now shouting from the rooftops that its real ace in the silicon arms race isn’t process nodes but how it wraps the goods.

Google breakup could sink Firefox, Mozilla tells court
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Killing the cash cow might just hand Big Tech more browser control

The cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street aren’t the only ones sweating over Google’s looming antitrust smackdown, the big cheeses at the Mozzarella Foundation think Firefox  could be collateral damage.

Lasercom tipped to replace jammed, hacked satellite links
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Russia, China ramping up dirty space tricks 

A 316-page report from the Secure World Foundation paints a grim picture of the growing space arms race, with Russia and China doubling down on satellite jamming, spoofing, and cyber-attacks, especially in active war zones.