Many talks between data center developers and local governments are wrapped in secrecy behind non-disclosure agreements — residents question the need for NDAs,

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Mad scientist makes LEDs in his backyard — semiconductor wizard who made his own RAM turns his attention to using bathroom eBay laser to etch sapphire wafers

The entire video is fascinating and information-dense, so we suggest you watch it to get the complete picture. Hartensveld started off with gallium nitride atop a sapphire wafer, that he proceeded to break into shards an…

Hot Chips 2026: Cerebras lays out the future of wafer-scale AI — Nexus system architecture triples rack-scale performance, CS-6 wafer to incorporate stacked DRA

Mounting the wafer-scale engines vertically in the backpack modules lets Cerebras do away with a PCB or substrate for the wafer to handle all its supporting infrastructure. Instead, the backpack connects the large copper…

Mad scientist makes LEDs in his backyard — semiconductor wizard who made his own RAM turns his attention to using bathroom eBay laser to etch sapphire wafers

The entire video is fascinating and information-dense, so we suggest you watch it to get the complete picture. Hartensveld started off with gallium nitride atop a sapphire wafer, that he proceeded to break into shards an…

Nvidia to buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, report claims — could strengthen Nvidia’s open-model strategy and shore up position against rivals

If Nvidia proceeds with the takeover, the transaction will be a part of Nvidia’s increasingly aggressive investments across the AI ecosystem that spans from hardware to models to software. Last week, Nvidia agreed to pay…

China’s YMTC aims to become the world’s largest NAND maker by the end of 2027, report says — company plans to overtake Samsung and SK hynix

YMTC’s listing turns that position into a funding mechanism. Margins earned at the top of the memory cycle are already paying for domestic tool development, and the IPO adds a capital source that sits outside the reach o…

Nvidia revenue tops $96 billion as memory commitments soar to $160 billion — CEO Jensen Huang says AI ‘has reached its inflection point’

For the second quarter of Nvidia’s FY2027, which ended on July 26, 2026, the company’s GAAP revenue hit a record $96.221 billion, up 18% quarter-over-quarter (QoQ) and 106% compared to the same quarter a year ago. Nvidia…

US gov’t moves to suppress pushback on data centers by removing requirements for public input on pollution — EPA change would allow air pollution permits withou

Paul Revere Admin said: A proposed change to the EPA’s regulations would remove the requirement for states to seek public input on air pollution permits, particularly around AI data centers. U.S. gov’t moves to suppress …