Process
How To Kill a Process in the Linux terminal
In this how-to we’ll look at various ways of using the terminal emulator to identify processes and how to kill them. A process can be an application or script running on your Linux machine. Sometimes a process can crash or become a memory hog and this is when we need to step in and “kill”…
Intel hedges its bet for High-NA EUV with the 14A process node — an alternate Low-NA technique has identical yield and design rules
Intel explained the rationale behind its High-NA EUV strategy at its Intel Foundry Direct 2025 conference this week. Despite persistent questions around cost-effectiveness, Intel has championed its use of the new High-NA EUV chipmaking tool with its forthcoming 14A process. However, Intel has not yet fully committed to using the new tool in production, but…
TSMC SVP Kevin Zhang opens up on process technology development & evolving demands: Interview
We had the opportunity to interview TSMC’s Kevin Zhang, the deputy co-COO and SVP at TSMC, to discuss the latest trends in the semiconductor industry and how they impact TSMC’s strategy moving forward. Since its founding in the 1980s, TSMC’s business strategy has been to meticulously fulfill the needs of its customers, transforming itself in…
Intel Foundry Roadmap Update – New 18A-PT variant that enables 3D die stacking, 14A process node enablement
Intel’s new CEO Lip Bu-Tan took to the stage at the company’s Intel Foundry Direct 2025 event here in San Jose, California, to outline the company’s progress on its foundry initiative. Tan announced that the company is now engaging lead customers for its upcoming 14A process node (1.4nm equivalent), the follow-on generation of its 18A…
TSMC’s 2nm N2 process node enters production this year, A16 and N2P arriving next year
TSMC is on track to start high-volume production of chips on N2 (2nm-class), its first production technology that relies on gate-all-around (GAA) nanosheet transistors, in the second half of this year, the company revealed at its North American Technology Symposium 2025. This new node will enable numerous products launching next year, including AMD’s next-generation EPYC…
Process Reinforcement through Implicit Rewards (PRIME): A Scalable Machine Learning Framework for Enhancing Reasoning Capabilities
Reinforcement learning (RL) for large language models (LLMs) has traditionally relied on outcome-based rewards, which provide feedback only on the final output. This sparsity of reward makes it challenging to train models that need multi-step reasoning, like those employed in mathematical problem-solving and programming. Additionally, credit assignment becomes ambiguous, as the model does not get…
This AI Paper Explores Reinforced Learning and Process Reward Models: Advancing LLM Reasoning with Scalable Data and Test-Time Scaling
Scaling the size of large language models (LLMs) and their training data have now opened up emergent capabilities that allow these models to perform highly structured reasoning, logical deductions, and abstract thought. These are not incremental improvements over previous tools but mark the journey toward reaching Artificial general intelligence (AGI). Training LLMs to reason well…