Amazon ready to use its own AI chips, reduce its dependence on Nvidia
Amazon now expects around $75 billion in capital spending in 2024, with the majority on technology infrastructure. On the company’s latest earnings call, chief executive Andy Jassy said he expects the company will spend even more in 2025. This represents…
Air quality problems spur $200 million in funds to cut pollution at ports
“We’re essentially creating a microgrid at the port,” she said. Improving the air for disadvantaged communities The Clean Ports funding will also be a boon for people like Garcia, who live near a US shipping port. Shipping ports are notorious…
TSMC will stop making 7 nm chips for Chinese customers
The company is understood to be particularly wary of being targeted as unreliable or uncooperative as Donald Trump is set to become the next US president. This year, Trump accused Taiwan of “stealing” the US chip industry, and suggested TSMC…
Airborne microplastics aid in cloud formation
Clouds form when water vapor—an invisible gas in the atmosphere—sticks to tiny floating particles, such as dust, and turns into liquid water droplets or ice crystals. In a newly published study, we show that microplastic particles can have the same…