NASA commits up to $700 million for Blue Origin Mars relay network
NASA committed up to $700 million under a firm-fixed-price contract for Blue Origin to design, develop, integrate, launch and operate a Mars communications relay network. The Mars Telecommunications Network will use Mars Telecomm...
Intel passes one million High-NA EUV wafers, studies larger masks
Intel said it has processed more than one million 300-mm wafers on High-NA EUV scanners, including installation, certification, R&D and production work. The company certified the tools for its 18A process earlier this year and say...
Humain reported to raise $2.5 billion for Saudi AI data centers
Saudi state-owned AI company Humain is reported to be raising an initial $2.5 billion fund through BSF Capital to finance data-center construction. The article says the debt-and-equity fund would support 250 megawatts of computin...
TSMC says Arizona chip plan has grown to $265 billion
TSMC says its planned Arizona investment has grown to $265 billion, covering six logic fabs, two advanced-packaging facilities and an R&D center, with additional facilities planned for 2-nanometer and more advanced technologies. ...
Fab2 reports $500 million Series A for modular chip-fab buildout
Fab2 said it closed a $500 million Series A at a $3.7 billion valuation to expand its effort to build semiconductor-fab equipment in house and assemble smaller fabs from it. The company operates a roughly 120,000-square-foot fab i...
Goodman wins approval for 135MW Sydney data center
New South Wales has granted Goodman Group planning permission for Project Apollo, a 135MW data center at Macquarie Park in northern Sydney. Goodman estimates the project at about AU$1.4 billion and plans eight data halls after dem...