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Samsung and TSMC will join Intel in adopting ASML’s latest High NA extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography chip fab machines, ASML announced. The three companies also unveiled a new initiative to adopt larger 12-inch photomasks that will hopefully boost manufacturing yields and lower chipmaking costs. Samsung and TSMC will deploy ASML’s NA EUV tech by 2028…

It’s no secret that the current artificial intelligence (AI) boom is leading to record levels of energy consumption — all that computing power needs to be fueled somehow — and it’s causing much controversy among the communities that are impacted whenever a new data center lays down its roots in their neighborhoods.