It has been a couple of decades since a Japanese fab has offered a leading-edge chip manufacturing process. Even to this day, none of the Japanese chipmakers have made it as far as adopting FinFETs, something that U.S. and Taiwanese companies adopted in early-to-mid-2010s. But Rapidus, a semiconductor consortium backed by the Japanese government and…
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TSMC on Tuesday announced plans to construct a new advanced chip packaging facility in Tongluo Science Park. The company intends to spend around $2.87 billion on the fab that will employ some 1,500 people when it becomes operational several years from now. “To meet market needs, TSMC is planning to establish an advanced packaging fab…
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The government has introduced an amendment to the Online Safety Bill that it says will require the regulator to conduct extra scrutiny before requiring technology companies to scan encrypted messages for illegal content. The amendment to the bill will add an extra review stage before the regulator requires tech companies to scan the content of…
As a CISO and cyber specialist, I am often asked what I see as the big cyber threats of the future. Whilst I’m not a fan of crystal ball gazing for its own sake, nevertheless it can be helpful to think about what may be coming – and what we can do about it. So…
Future Cyber Threats: The four ‘horsemen of the apocalypse’ Read More »
Dinosaurs are pouring into this week’s episode of The Game Informer Show as editor Marcus Stewart unpacks his evolving thoughts on Capcom’s new dino-flavored shooter, Exoprimal. Kyle Hilliard discusses his Pikmin 4 and Viewfinder reviews while also dishing out his early impressions of Gunbrella. Charles Harte chats about playing the re-release of Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective…
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While TSMC formally started mass production of chips on its N3 (3nm-class) process technology late last year, the company is set to finally ship the first revenue wafers in the current quarter. During the most recent earnings call with analysts and investors, the company said that demand for 3 nm products was steady, and that…
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On this episode of All Things Nintendo, Brian invites Kyle on to render his final verdict on Pikmin 4. The franchise has long remained a favorite of Shigeru Miyamoto’s, so does this entry live up to the hype of the legendary creator? Before that, Brian and Marcus talk some Pokémon, some Sonic, and some TMNT.…
AMD Ryzen 8000-series CPUs have hit a major milestone on the way to launch, as major industry benchmarking utility AIDA64 is now able to recognize AMD’s new Zen 5 microarchitecture.The new AMD architecture popped up in FireWire’s most recent update release notes to its popular AIDA64 tool, which many professionals and PC enthusiasts use to…
AMD Ryzen 8000-series CPUs built on Zen 5 might beat Intel’s Arrow Lake to market Read More »
