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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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 a girl 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

What is hacking? Many, especially in the mainstream, view it through the lens of computer security. Others consider it synonymous with making or creating. Even for those of us immersed …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 […]

Thanks to Semiconductor Intelligence for this one – the top 20 semiconductor manufacturers in Q2 measured by revenue.  

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The UK Space Agency is inviting proposals for space-based projects that will help strengthen international partnerships for the UK space sector. Funding will be through the government’s International Bilateral Fund […]

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Sony has announced its IMX742, a CMOS image sensor for single-use endoscopes. The company highlights it as the industry’s first to support digital output and data transmission through a 5m […]

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Meta’s new Audio AI glasses  started selling yesterday after the company’s Gen 3 smart glasses hit markets about three weeks ago. Most notably, the new audio-only model features the usual […]

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Bosch will spin off its semiconductor division ‌in January 2028, it said today. The move comes as part of a strategy to run semis  as a foundry business as well […]

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