Japan Seeks $2.5B More for Rapidus' 2nm Bet
Japan's industry ministry asked on Oct. 19 for another Β₯400B for Rapidus, lifting state equity to Β₯650B to unlock Β₯2T in bank loans before 2nm production.
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Japan's industry ministry asked on Oct. 19 for another Β₯400B for Rapidus, lifting state equity to Β₯650B to unlock Β₯2T in bank loans before 2nm production.
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Apple sent invites today for a "Pro and Tell" Oct. 28 Los Angeles event. An OLED touchscreen MacBook Pro, M6 iMac, and OLED iPad mini 8 are all expected. Pre-orders open the same day.
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Applied Materials opened its $5B EPIC Center in Sunnyvale on Oct. 12 with TSMC, Intel, Samsung, SK hynix, and Micron, targeting a 6-year chip development cycle instead of 12.
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Taiwan's Economy Minister confirmed on Oct. 12 that AI servers and advanced chips will be added to criminal export controls, with up to 5 years in prison, closing a legal gap China exploited.
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Apple's first foldable iPhone opened pre-orders today at $1,999 in 70+ countries. Shipping dates slipped to January within 30 minutes as supply constraints bite.
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BAE Systems' Oct. 9 incident took down the system that sends notices for every US bankruptcy court. It is still offline, and data theft is unconfirmed.
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CXMT says server DRAM on a 4FΒ² cell arrives by year-end. Samsung fell 7.4% and SK hynix over 7% on Oct. 13, yet no specs, yields or volumes exist.
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Samsung's record 107.4T-won operating profit rode a 20% DRAM price jump on just 3.4% more shipments, with memory margins near 76%, one broker estimates.
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A Washington think tank estimates China imported 343 ASML immersion DUV tools by early 2026, enough for 7nm chips, and urges a ban. Its figures are unverified.
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Qualcomm will license Huawei's chip-stacking patents in a cross-license deal. Huawei says its licensing contracts now top $6.9B, reversing 25 years of payments.
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Microsoft and Nvidia unveiled the Surface Laptop Ultra and RTX Spark at a San Francisco event, launching PCs that run 120B-parameter AI locally.
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Starting October 9, free Gemini users lose Flash and Pro and get Flash-Lite only β a hard paywall that ChatGPT's free tier still avoids.
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