Not every SPAC is pure garbage
Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter for your weekend enjoyment. Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s broadly based on the daily column that a.....»»
Pacific garbage patch providing a deep ocean home for coastal species
Floating plastic is forming its own ecosystems with mixes of species. Enlarge (credit: Seamind Panadda / EyeEm) A survey of plastic waste picked up in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre—aka the Giant Pacific Garbage Pa.....»»
TSMC still mulling raising foundry quotes in 2H23, sources say
TSMC has revised the company's blueprint for capacity expansion, reducing its scale and slowing down its pace. However, the pure-play foundry is still evaluating the feasibility of raising quotes in the second half of the year, according to sources a.....»»
The best air purifiers
The air we breathe indoors should be as clean and pure as possible. Our picks for the best air purifiers help rid your home of allergens and contaminants......»»
Nokia’s Pure UI is Already Available on Some of its Apps
It looks like it's only a matter of time before we see Pure UI appear on even more Nokia apps soon. Nokia’s debut of its new software interface has met a somewhat rocky start, but that hasn’t stopped the Finnish telecoms giant f.....»»
Stem Cell ‘Junk Yards’ Reveal a New Clue About Aging
Scientists found that the cells' garbage-clearing function deteriorates with age—and opens the door to reversing it......»»
Nokia Quietly Backtracks on Pure UI Debut
The digital design language was very much in line with the company's new logo, although the announcement did cause some initial confusion as to whether or not the UI would make its way to Nokia mobile hardware. Nokia’s announcement of.....»»
Vanchip reportedly to pay US$4 million to end contract with UMC
Vanchip Technology, a fabless chipmaker with target markets including smartphones, tablets, and wearables, is allegedly paying US$4 million for a contract violation involving the termination of its production capacity guarantee agreement with pure-pl.....»»
Nikola, once the "Tesla of trucking," sells stock at discount
Nikola, which was one of the first EV companies to go public via the special acquisition company or SPAC process, is selling roughly 90 million shares at a 20 percent discount......»»
Peering into ocular waste recycling
A recent study in the Journal of Biological Chemistry revealed the key to a protein that commonly causes blindness. The biological process involves a protein that is essential for transporting toxic compounds out of the eye, similar to a garbage recy.....»»
Hua Hong saw sales grow by 51% in 2022, may increase CAPEX despite downturn
Hua Hong Semiconductors posted an annual growth of 51.8% in sales in 2022, a record high for the second-largest pure-play foundry in China. The company committed to increasing capital expenditure despite a downturn seen in the chip industry......»»
Meet the New “Nokia Pure” Design System
Nokia unveiled a follow-up with "Nokia Pure," a user interface that introduces new visual concepts to the Finnish brand's digital products. Nokia made headlines during MWC 2023 back in February after it unveiled a new logo, which the compan.....»»
UMC, eMemory expand low-power memory solutions for AIoT and mobile markets with 22nm RRAM qualification
Silicon IP provider eMemory and pure-play foundry United Microelectronics (UMC) have announced that eMemory's resistive random access memory (RRAM) IP has been qualified on UMC's 22nm ultra-low power process, expanding UMC's comprehensive embedded me.....»»
Taiwan server makers may miss out on 5G O-RAN market
With Nokia, a major telecom equipment vendor, expediting the rollout of its own 5G O-RAN solutions, Taiwan-based server makers may miss out on major opportunities from the 5G O-RAN market and have to accept the role of being pure contract assemblers,.....»»
Automotive and industrial IGBT supply may stay tight until mid-2024
The supply of automotive and industrial IGBTs may stay tight until the middle of next year, according to sources at pure-play foundries......»»
Scientists uncover startling concentrations of pure DDT along seafloor off LA coast
First it was the eerie images of barrels leaking on the seafloor not far from Catalina Island. Then the shocking realization that the nation's largest manufacturer of DDT had once used the ocean as a huge dumping ground—and that as many as half a m.....»»
Deals: $250 off M2 Max MacBook Pro, $220 off M2 Apple iPad Pro, $67 HomePod mini & more
Top deals for March 24 include $200 off an M2 Pro MacBook Pro, 50% off an iRobot i415020 Roomba i4, 84% off a Rowenta Pure Connect air purifier, and 70% off Yamaha wireless earbuds.Save $250 on an M2 Max MacBook ProThe AppleInsider staff scours the i.....»»
L&K lands over NT$18 billion worth of orders for new UMC fab in Singapore
So far in 2023, cleanroom contractor L&K Engineering has secured orders totaling NT$18.62 billion (US$613.7 million) from United Microelectronics (UMC) for the pure-play foundry's new fab in Singapore......»»
Taiwan foundries see surge in orders transferred from China
The US' escalation of the chip war with China has prompted more companies to shift their orders to Taiwan-based pure-play foundries. However, contract prices provided by TSMC and other Taiwanese foundries for orders transferred from Chinese counterpa.....»»
TSMC to expand in tandem with partners, says Morris Chang
Morris Chang, TSMC's founder, stated at an event in Taipei on March 16 that he believes the pure-play foundry will continue to grow alongside its partners, as opposed to certain competitors who are expanding on their own......»»
A framework to self-test all entangled states using quantum networks
Self-testing is a promising method to infer the physics underlying specific quantum experiments using only collected measurements. While this method can be used to examine bipartite pure entangled states, so far it could only be applied to limited ki.....»»