On a colorless Monday February morning in California, on the drab San Jose Conference Heart, attendees of the SPIE Superior Lithography and Patterning Convention gathered to listen to tech business luminaries extol the late Gordon Moore, Intel’s cofounder and first CEO, who handed in March final yr.
Moore is finest identified for pioneering Moore’s Legislation, the remark that the variety of transistors on an built-in circuit doubles each two years or so. But when Moore deserves credit score for creating the legislation that drove the progress of the business, it’s Dutch firm ASML, which makes the machines that in flip let producers produce probably the most superior laptop chips on the earth, that deserves a lot of the credit score for guaranteeing that progress stays attainable.
But that additionally means the strain is on. ASML has to proceed ensuring chipmakers can hold tempo with the legislation. Will that be attainable? Learn the total story.
—Mat Honan & James O’Donnell
Why Threads is all of a sudden common in Taiwan
For most individuals around the globe, Meta’s text-based social community Threads is a platform they doubtless haven’t considered for months. However for Liu, a design skilled in Taipei, it’s the place she’s receiving unprecedented consideration.
She’s not the one particular person feeling this surge of recognition. Threads has dominated app-store obtain charts in Taiwan for months. Distinguished officers have arrange accounts, and it’s turn into the preferred platform amongst younger individuals. However Threads’ surprising success on the island is complicated, and precarious. Learn the total story.
