Rapidus × Cadence: Japan industrializes agent-chip-design
Nikkei reports on July 17 a partnership between Rapidus and Cadence on AI agent tools for chip design - Japanese sovereignty targets EDA.
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Fudan: the "Quantum Flash" stores an electron at room temperature - publication in Science
The Fudan team publishes in Science a single-electron ambient-temperature storage technology - the "Quantum Flash". A materials breakthrough that raises the question of the physical limit of memory.
12 h ago 8 9
Korea: "big money" exits Samsung/SK Hynix - HBM peak signal?
ETNews reports net institutional outflows from Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, presented as a signal of a peak in the AI memory cycle. To be contrasted with TSMC's +68%.
Jul 13, 2026 at 17:27 8 7
Ireland: data centers consume 23% of national electricity
The AI electric wall is no longer a projection: an entire country has just hit it, and Dublin is the canary.
Jul 13, 2026 at 02:18 11 6
The AI electric wall: Mitsubishi $9 bn, SEA under pressure, and solid-state transformers as saviors
Four signals in the same week converge: concrete follows the models, the US grid falters, Southeast Asia chases its PPAs, and solid-state transformers become the inevitable hardware building block.
Jul 11, 2026 at 17:19 13 11