Small OSATs in India can start with ₹1.5–₹2 billion (~$15.8–$21 million), consultant Nitin Dodia said. But anchor customers, skilled staff, and qualification determine who survives.

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Economic activity in the U.S. manufacturing sector expanded in October driven by accelerating production and steady gains in new orders.

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Ushio has been accepting orders for LED-based UX-4 wafer aligners since July 2026, offering mercury-free, high-throughput lithography.

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As digital design workflows increasingly center on modern, text-based development environments, engineers expect the same efficiency from design data management as they do from coding tools. Visual Studio Code (VS Code) has become a preferred platform for developing RTL, HDL, scripts, and verification assets, offering a flexible and extensible workspace that streamlines day-to-day engineering tasks. […]

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Alphabet’s TPU inventory, Intel’s manufacturing tradeoffs, and equipment suppliers’ balance sheets show how capital builds up along the path to usable AI computing capacity.

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One of the interesting things about the slow-moving AI apocalypse we seem to be trapped in is watching the knock-on effects reverberate through communities and economies. We’ve seen how — …read more

Automatic cat feeders are a dime a dozen, largely because this is an easy problem to solve. Dry cat food is easy for machines to manipulate, and the electronics needed …read more

There’s an old joke about inviting somebody up to your dorm room to ‘look at your etchings’ — but if you’re going to do that, you’d best have some etchings, …read more

The great thing about the modern world is how connected we are. It’s also the worst thing about the modern world, to be honest. [Allan Binder] wanted to give his …read more

The idea that magnetism doesn’t necessarily always have a dipolar configuration is not a new one, but it’s not an easy theory to find evidence for. Most recently a team …read more

Kyle Orland, writing at Ars Technica, reports that Anthropic has added a rule to Claude Code’s system prompt to keep the model from re-creating specific existing video games. The rule, spotted in a json file named “tengu_heron_brook” around October 27, tells Claude to build original games, genre games and games from a user’s own designs […]

NIST has released Small Business Cybersecurity: Non-Employer Firms, also known as NIST Cybersecurity White Paper 50. It’s written for the “solopreneur,” anyone who is the only paid employee of their business. More than 28 million small businesses in the U.S. fit that description. The guide assumes the reader doesn’t know anything about cybersecurity or the […]

Chris, writing at chrisdevblog.com, built GUI apps for Windows 3.11 and OS/2 Warp 3 to control his microcontroller projects on real period hardware. He started with Borland Delphi 1 from 1995, the first and last Delphi that made 16-bit Windows programs. That worked right away, so he switched to Microsoft Visual C++ 1.52 from 1993, […]

Jason Kottke, writing at kottke.org, points to Arkivism, a search and visual discovery engine for public domain works. It pulls together millions of items that anyone can use. The collections come from the Smithsonian, The Met, NASA, the Library of Congress, the National Gallery of Art, the Rijksmuseum and others. Public domain means the copyright […]

GNUstep Desktop (GSDE) is a Linux desktop environment that gives you a NeXT/OpenStep-like experience. It runs on the GNUstep framework, which is an open implementation of the OpenStep API in Objective-C, and pulls together apps and utilities the GNUstep community has written over the years. The code is compact enough that one person can follow […]

Efficient Computer, the company claiming to build the world’s most energy-efficient processors, has announced that edgeAI has selected its Electron E1 processor to develop high-performance, energy-efficient solutions for physical AI […]

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The US has started deploying GPS-based speed-limiting devices on cars to prevent reckless drivers from exceeding speed limits. Convicted speed merchants will be given a choice: “Your license or a […]

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Taoglas, the RF and antenna specialist, has announced the MA8020 Raptor X, a railway-certified, multi-function antenna platform designed to support cellular, GNSS and Wi‑Fi® connectivity for rail applications. Built on […]

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Filtronic has been awarded a £1.9 million contract under the Contracts for Innovation: Advanced Connectivity Technologies (ACT) competition. Delivered by Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), the […]

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Alliance Memory has expanded its offering of high-speed CMOS mobile low-power SDRAMs with new 4Gb LPDDR4 and 8Gb and 16Gb LPDDR4X devices that combine low power ratings with fast clock […]

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