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Always Be Curious is your weekly shot of sci-tech coverage. Bringing you the now, the how and the wow of science and technology with a special focus on the chip industry.
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Always Be Curious #324: Packaging market to quintuple, machine learning in space, and an AI-powered brain implant (opens the original)
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Sup Curious Clan! ✌️ Here’s a number that blew my socks off this week: the market for advanced packaging is set to nearly quintuple by 2031, to over $51 billion. Research firm Yole Group sees a 27% CAGR from 2025 onward. 📈 A modern AI chip is not one piece of silicon anymore. It is several separate dies, plus stacks of memory, all mounted together on a single substrate and wired to each other. Advanced packaging is that assembly step. It used to be the cheap afterthought at the end of the line,
Always Be Curious #323: Transformative AI, Euclyd raises €200M, and a biological datacenter (opens the original)
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Sup Curious Clan! ✌️ I’ve been part of this industry and the Dutch tech ecosystem for a long time, and when I reflect on where we stand, well, I just don’t think I’ve seen something like it before. 🤪 Money is moving into chip startups at a pace and scale that would have sounded kinda absurd just two years ago. And a significant share of it is landing within an hour’s drive of my desk. 🤓🇳🇱Eindhoven-based startup Euclyd is the freshest example: this week, the company raised more than €200M in a Se
Always Be Curious #322: High NA EUV photomasks, Apple’s A20 Pro, and Star Trek fans (opens the original)
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Sup Curious Clan! ✌️ This week was absolutely packed with ASML news, so let me break it down for you. TSMC said it intends to use ASML’s High NA EUV for high-volume manufacturing on advanced nodes from 2030, and Samsung intends to use the technology for DRAM production from 2028, describing it as the way to extend the DRAM scaling roadmap. At the same time, Intel anno
Always Be Curious #321: TSMC building 20 fabs, Samsung’s zHBM, and the Amiga 1200 (opens the original)
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Sup Curious Clan! ✌️ If you want one number that explains the entire semiconductor industry right now, TSMC gave it to us at SEMICON Taiwan this week. The company revealed that its chip manufacturing equipment purchase demand grew roughly 90% in 6 months, a pace he says the industry hasn’t seen in 30 years. TSMC is now building about 20 fabs simultaneously, against the 4-5 it would typically have under construction at once. And it still is not enough. 🤪 The most telli
Always Be Curious #320: Apple’s first 2nm chip, NVIDIA’s continued boom, and Cold War codebreakers (opens the original)
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Sup Curious Clan! ✌️ NVIDIA reported earnings this week and the numbers have officially entered the realm of the absurd. 🤪 Revenue hit a record $96.2 billion for the quarter, with the data center alone accounting for $89 billion, and profit nearly doubled year over year. Jensen Huang declared that “a new industrial revolution has started” and dropped the line of the week: <div class="pullquote
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