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Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger Bets on Light to Revive Chip Innovation
Pat Gelsinger joins Playground Capital to push the boundaries of semiconductor technology, aiming to reignite Moore's Law through advances in lithography.

America's factories are booming. The problem is finding people to run them.
U.S. manufacturing hit a record $2.91 trillion in 2024, and foreign companies have poured trillions more into American plants. But nearly half the jobs the industry will need by 2033 could go unfilled.

The secret ingredient keeping AI running: advanced materials science
Chips and software grab the headlines, but a quieter race is under way in the labs developing the physical materials that let AI hardware exist at all.

Jeff Bezos and the UK Government Just Bet $450 Million on a Startup That Hunts for New Materials Using AI
Cambridge-based CuspAI wants to be the search engine for rare materials, cutting the time and cost of finding the physical stuff that powers chips, batteries and beyond.

The only company that makes AI's most important machine just raised its sales forecast again
ASML, the Dutch firm that builds the chip-printing machines the entire AI industry depends on, now expects up to 45 billion euros in sales this year. That is a huge jump from what it predicted just months ago.

A 'Very Small' Number of Nvidia's H200 AI Chips Have Made It to China, Says U.S. Official
Shipments have restarted, but only in tiny quantities. Here is what that means for Nvidia, China, and the tech cold war playing out between them.