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 Week of 28th Oct - Global Roundup | VLSi Connect News News Source: Analyst firm raises alarm about EUV chipmaking tools — each consumes as much power as a small city, fabs to consume 54,000 Gigawatts by 2030: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/analyst-firm-raises-alarm-about-euv-chipmaking-tools Cadence says its AI-driven chip design tools provide a process node's worth of performance gain, but without moving forward to a new node: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/cadence-ai-chip-design-tools-performance China tightens export controls on rare earth metals used for chipmaking — country now requires exporters to detail how they use restricted materials: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/china-tightens-rare-earth-metals-export-controls Chinese chipmaker's new 7nm CPUs reportedly outperform Intel's Raptor Lake — Loongson adopts "tock-tock-tick" strategy to close the gap with Intel: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/chinese-chipmakers-new-7nm-cpus-reportedly-outperform-intels-raptor-lake Despite US sanctions, China has enough AI processors to build the world's largest AI training cluster: Report: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/despite-us-sanctions-china-has-enough-ai-processors-to-build-the-worlds-largest-ai-training-cluster Elon Musk spent roughly $10 billion on AI training hardware in 2024: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/elon-musk-spent-roughly-10-billion-on-ai-training-hardware Former Intel CEO says splitting Intel isn’t good for the U.S.: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/former-intel-ceo-says-splitting-intel-isnt-good-for-the-us Intel celebrates significant progress at its Ohio Silicon Heartland fabs — basements completed and four superloads delivered: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-ohio-fabs-update Intel lost $16.6 billion in Q3, reports $13.3 billion in revenue: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-lost-166-billion-in-q3-reports-133-billion-in-revenue Intel says it will miss its AI goals with Gaudi 3 due to unbaked software — Intel's $500 million AI goal unachievable as competitors rake in billions: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-says-it-will-miss-its-ai-goals-with-gaudi-3 Meta is using more than 100,000 Nvidia H100 AI GPUs to train Llama-4 — Mark Zuckerberg says that Llama 4 is being trained on a cluster “bigger than anything that I’ve seen”: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/meta-llama-4-ai-training-cluster New York State to get new $825 million semiconductor R&D facility: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/new-york-state-to-get-new-825-million-semiconductor-rd-facility OpenAI reportedly builds custom AI chips as it embraces AMD — company also abandons plans to build its own fabs: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/openai-reportedly-building-custom-ai-chips SRAM scaling isn't dead after all — TSMC's 2nm process tech claims major improvements: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/tsmc-2nm-process-tech-claims-major-sram-improvements Audio Generated using ⁠Google NotebookLM
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