Tag Archives: Intel

Musk Fab Tax Rebates Approved

Posted on July 16, 2026 by Lawrence Person

Remember our news that Elon Musk’s new Terafab semiconductor plant was going to be located in Grimes County, Texas? Well, two school districts just approved the tax abatements for the project. Iola Independent School District (ISD) and Anderson-Shiro Consolidated Independent … Continue reading →

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RAM Cartel? I Seriously Doubt It.

Posted on July 1, 2026 by Lawrence Person

A class action lawsuit has been filed against memory giants Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron alleging the nefarious, cartel like action of…making the products with the highest profit margins. The world’s biggest memory chip makers are once again facing accusations … Continue reading →

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Musk’s Terafab Going In Grimes County?

Posted on May 6, 2026 by Lawrence Person

When last we checked, Terafab, the cutting-edge megafab being built to produce AI chips for Elon Musk’s Telsa/SpaceX/xAI consortium, was going to be built and run by Intel, but the location was up in the air. Now, according to regulatory … Continue reading →

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Musk’s Terafab To Have Intel Inside

Posted on April 9, 2026 by Lawrence Person

After the initial report on Elon Musk’s planned Terafab project, there were a whole lot of questions about how Musk was going to get his ambitious semiconductor fab project up and running. Now a very, very big piece of the … Continue reading →

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Has Microsoft Finally Gotten The MicroSlop Message?

Posted on March 21, 2026 by Lawrence Person

When last we checked, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella was busy trying to shove Copilot, their AI tool, into every crevice of every Microsoft product. Finally, enough users seem to have complained loudly enough to get them to rethink the strategy. … Continue reading →

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AI News Roundup For February 5, 2026

Posted on February 5, 2026 by Lawrence Person

A bunch of AI-related news has popped up this week, so let’s do a roundup. Some AI companies are complaining that TSMC is killing the AI boom by not expanding rapidly enough: Asianometry notes that TSMC’s caution at expanding is … Continue reading →

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Texas Samsung Fab To Build Telsa Chips

Posted on July 29, 2025 by Lawrence Person

Good news for the central Texas economy: Samsung’s new Taylor fab is going to build AI chips for Telsa. Tesla’s next-generation AI6 chip, designed to power the Full Self-Driving (FSD) system, will be manufactured at Samsung’s new, massive chip fabrication … Continue reading →

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Instant Analysis: Trump Tariff Effects On Semiconductors

Posted on April 2, 2025 by Lawrence Person

President Trump announced his tariffs on countries, especially those that tariff goods from the United States. President Donald Trump on Wednesday imposed sweeping new tariffs on all imported goods and unveiled a detailed list of reciprocal duties targeting more than … Continue reading →

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TSMC Bids To Take Over Intel Fabs

Posted on March 12, 2025 by Lawrence Person

I know that any time I talk about semiconductors, a significant percentage of my readership’s eyes glaze over, but this is Big Freaking News. Intel shares rose 6% in premarket trading after Reuters reported that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, or TSMC, … Continue reading →

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