Micron details new U.S. fab projects: HBM assembly comes to the U.S., Idaho Fab comes online in 2027, New York fabs later

Micron details new U.S. fab projects: HBM assembly comes to the U.S., Idaho Fab comes online in 2027, New York fabs later

Micron this month announced a renewed U.S. buildout strategy that expands investment plans to $150 million, plans to build an HBM packaging facility in Virginia, and invest some $50 billion in R&D. Micron’s first new U.S. fab in years will begin operations in the second half of 2027, the company revealed this month. Following the enactment of…

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Intel details 18A process technology — takes on TSMC 2nm with 30% density gain and 25% faster generational performance

Intel details 18A process technology — takes on TSMC 2nm with 30% density gain and 25% faster generational performance

Intel has published a paper about its 18A (1.8nm-class) fabrication process at the VLSI 2025 symposium, consolidating all its information about the manufacturing technology into a single document. The new 18A production node is expected to deliver significant improvements in power, performance, and area over its predecessor, increasing density by 30% while enhancing performance by…

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Tesla details how it finds punishing defective cores on its million-core Dojo supercomputers — a single error can ruin a weeks-long AI training run

Tesla details how it finds punishing defective cores on its million-core Dojo supercomputers — a single error can ruin a weeks-long AI training run

Detecting malfunctioning cores and disabling them on a massive processor is challenging, but Tesla has developed its Stress tool, which can detect cores prone to silent data corruption across not only Dojo processors but also across Dojo clusters with millions of cores, all without taking them offline. This is an incredibly important capability, as Tesla says a…

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