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TSMC discovers the American dream costs a fortune
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Arizona Fab’s profits fall off a cliff

TSMC’s big Arizona adventure was supposed to be a landmark moment for the US chip industry, although it now looks more like an expensive lesson in why fabs prefer cheaper postcodes.

Aisuru botnet hurls record 15.7 Tbps tantrum at Azure
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IoT junk kit gangs up for the biggest cloud-crunching flood yet.

Microsoft engineers said the Aisuru botnet launched a 15.7 Tbps distributed denial-of-service barrage against Azure and sprayed more than 3.6 billion packets per second at one unlucky Australian endpoint.

Billionaires leg it from Nvidia as AI bubble jitters spike
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Thiel and other mega-rich investors dump their stakes amid fraying nerves

Panic spread through trading floors after venture capitalist and Trump cheerleader Peter Thiel flogged all the Nvidia shares he held.

Memory makers hit the panic button as DRAM dries up
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Stockpiling, shortages and silly prices are now the industry’s default setting.

The memory world has wandered straight into a supply shock, and every big name is now stuffing its warehouses like doomsday preppers.

Intel suddenly looks useful again
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Packaging kit gets unexpected love as TSMC struggles to keep up

Troubled Chipzilla's EMIB and Foveros packaging tricks, long overshadowed by TSMC’s dominance, are finally being treated as viable alternatives.