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Semiconductors, foundries, advanced packaging and the global silicon supply chain, covered by The Silicon Ledger.
eMudhra Limited announced its withdrawal from the global SSL/TLS certificate market following the discovery that it had issued eight intermediate credentials with dangerously weak encryption keys, some containing as few as 4 bits of entropy.
The Linear Tape-Open format, now 25 years old, is slowing its capacity growth to balance density with performance and cost, even as AI workloads drive renewed demand for archival storage.
Meta has begun running Google's tensor processing units in production for AI inference, using new open-source software that lets PyTorch models run natively on the chips without major rewrites.
Intel has begun equipping its Arizona fabrication plant and is advancing its Ohio manufacturing complex, positioning itself ahead of competitors in domestic semiconductor production.
The 4TB Samsung 990 Pro, once commanding $1,099, now sells for $799.90 following a 27% price cut that reflects cooling demand in the memory market after the AI boom.
Elon Musk announced that ASML and other semiconductor equipment makers are accelerating shipments to Terafab, the joint Tesla-SpaceX chip manufacturing venture, to meet an ambitious timeline for volume production in Texas by late 2028.
At GTC Berlin, Nvidia unveiled DSX POD, a prefabricated shipping container design that arrives fully assembled with GPUs and cooling systems, slashing typical data center setup timelines from months to roughly two weeks.
A labor action at Micron's Taoyuan facility on October 22 seeks concrete compensation agreements and a transparent mechanism for distributing future earnings to employees.
