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Apple Silicon: Arbeit am MacBook Pro M4, Apple Car mit vier M2 Ultras
Nach dem M3 kommt der M4 – und Apple hat angeblich mit der Arbeit an einem ersten MacBook Pro mit dem SoC begonnen. Neue Berichte betreffen auch das Apple Car.

An Italian minister says Singapore-based Silicon Box plans to invest €3.2B to build a chip factory; Silicon Box raised $200M in January 2024 at a $1B valuation (Flavia Rotondi/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Singapore Startup To Invest €3.2 Billion in Italy Chips Factory
Semiconductors startup Silicon Box will invest €3.2 billion ($3.5 billion) in Italy to build a chip factory in the north of the country, Industry Minister Adolfo Urso said Monday.

I think graphene might make a greater impact on human civilisation than silicon or gallium arsenide.

I like this!!!
“The rationales for the introduction of driverless cars include eliminating human error and allowing people with disabilities to get about without having to rely on other human beings. A more convincing rationale is that the corporations which own them can keep income that would otherwise have gone on drivers’ wages. " — Rebecca Solnit in “In the Shadow of Silicon Valley”

vim-silicon: Generate screenshots of code from vim
https://github.com/segeljakt/vim-silicon/tree/master
I learned about this from Dreams of Code showing off silicon.nvim then looking if there was one for vim.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.07462 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Quantum Mechanical Comparison between Lithiated and Sodiated Silicon Nanowires
This computational research study will compare the specific charge capacity (SCC) between lithium ions inserted into crystallize silicon (c-Si) nanowires versus sodium ions inserted into amorphous silicon (a-Si) nanowires. It will be demonstrated that the potential energy V(r) within the lithium-silicon nanowire supports a coherent energy state model with discrete electron particles while the sodium-silicon nanowire potential energy will be discovered to be essentially zero and thus the electro…

💡 TSMC Jumps Into Silicon Photonics, Lays Out Roadmap For 12.8 Tbps COUPE On-Package Interconnect
https://www.anandtech.com/show/21373/tsmc-adds-silicon-photonics-coupe-roadmap-128tbps-on-package

TSMC Jumps Into Silicon Photonics, Lays Out Roadmap For 12.8 Tbps COUPE On-Package Interconnect
Optical connectivity – and especially silicon photonics – is expected to become a crucial technology to enable connectivity for next-generation datacenters, particularly those designed...

Silicon spikes kill 96% of virus particles: RMIT Uni research team has made a virus-killing surface that could help control disease spread in hospitals etc.
https://www.rmit.edu.au/news/all-news/2024/mar/silicon-nanospikes

Silicon spikes take out 96% of virus particles
An international research team led by RMIT University has designed and manufactured a virus-killing surface that could help control disease spread.

Room-temperature photonic quantum computing in integrated silicon photonics with germanium-silicon single-photon avalanche diodes
Neil Na, Chou-Yun Hsu, Erik Chen, Richard Soref
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.04763

Room-temperature photonic quantum computing in integrated silicon photonics with germanium-silicon single-photon avalanche diodes
Most, if not all, photonic quantum computing (PQC) relies upon superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) based on Nb operated at a temperature < 4 K. This paper proposes and analyzes 300 K Si-waveguide-integrated GeSi single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) based on the recently demonstrated normal-incidence GeSi SPADs operated at room temperature, and shows that their performance is competitive against that of SNSPDs in a series of metrics for PQC with a reasonable time-gating w…

Apple Silicon: Apple verbaut angeblich eigene Chips für KI-Server
Apple investiert viel Geld in den Aufbau einer eigenen Infrastruktur für generative KI. Dabei soll es sich nicht um Hardware von der Stange handeln.