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Micron announced plans to invest over $250 billion in the U.S. through 2035 and has begun groundwork at its new New York plant. While the company is also strengthening its material supply chain, the new facility isn't expected to start production until 2030 or later—meaning the results of this massive investment remain years away.
Google has announced LiteRT.js, a new runtime for running machine learning models in the browser. By bringing mobile model formats to the Web, it aims to reduce conversion overhead and make it easier to share models across devices, while also targeting WebGPU and future NPU utilization.
A Swiss research team has achieved a power conversion efficiency of 30.02% with a triple-junction solar cell stacking silicon and perovskite, breaking through the theoretical limit of a single material. The fusion of low-cost materials and nanotechnology is paving the way to bring ultra-high-efficiency power generation—once confined to space exploration—down to Earth.
To overcome the scaling limits of silicon, a new technology has been developed for synthesizing single-crystal molybdenum disulfide at wafer scale. Through self-aligned crystal growth and an automatic thickness self-limiting mechanism, an atomically thin semiconductor film with extremely few defects has been realized, marking a major step forward in the practical implementation of next-generation devices.
According to a TechPowerUp analysis, the cause of USB audio noise on AMD systems isn't a difference in codec quality but a difference in bus design philosophy between Intel and AMD. The article also examines the paradox of high-end motherboards reverting to legacy circuitry.
China Three Gorges Corporation has begun trial operation of a 1GW integrated PV-plus-CSP project in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. On top of 900MW of solar PV, surplus electricity and solar heat are stored in molten salt to deliver 100MW of output at night, helping stabilize the power grid.
Three U.S. startups have successively revealed commercial contracts and demonstration plans for space-based solar power, while NASA's independent estimates swing by roughly 20-fold depending on assumptions. The industry's targets align almost exactly with the best-case scenario in those estimates, leaving feasibility hinging on verification of launch costs and power-transmission efficiency.
Samsung is reportedly developing a PC AI accelerator called "GAIA," advancing prototype verification with Lenovo and others toward mass production targeted for 2027. The chip will use a 4nm process, and cooperation with in-memory computing technology is also reportedly being considered, though power consumption and software support remain challenges for practical deployment.
Ocean engineering company DEEP has installed a crewed undersea habitat on the seafloor off the coast of Florida, entering the final phase of verifying the entire system. By leveraging saturation diving, the facility enables extended coral reef research with reduced decompression burden, aiming to accumulate operational records toward the development of future large-scale facilities.
SK hynix is set to resume equipment investment at its second NAND fab in Dalian, China. The company aims to bring it online by the first half of 2027, seeking to boost NAND supply capacity ahead of the completion of its new fab in Korea. However, completing the plan hinges on continued approval for equipment imports under U.S. export controls.
