Wall Street Journal24d
Silicon Valley Is Raving About a Made-in-China AI Model
SINGAPORE—A Chinese artificial-intelligence company has Silicon Valley marveling at how its programmers nearly matched American rivals despite using inferior chips. AI models from DeepSeek ...
NBC Bay Area25d
San Jose metropolitan area falls in economic rankings, reports details
A recent report shows Silicon Valley's economic growth faltered in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, though local experts say business has been recovering. The Milken Institute, a global think ...
Digi Times26d
China wafer foundry industry revenues rise 16% in 2024 and to pick up further in 2025, says DIGITIMES Research
China's wafer foundry industry will generate US$13.22 billion in revenue in 2024, representing a 16% year-on-year growth, slightly exceeding the global growth rate of 14%. The revenue momentum of ...
C&EN26d
Correlative Raman–Voltage Microscopy Revealing the Localized Structure–Stress Relationship in Silicon Solar Cells
Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon-Based Functional Materials & Devices, Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, P. R. China ...
Phys.org27d
From root to shoot: How silicon powers plant resilience
In a recent study, a team of researchers led by Dr. Naoki Yamaji, from the Institute of Plant Science and Resources, Okayama University, Japan, has uncovered a key signaling protein, Shoot-Silicon ...
Phys.org29d
Nanoislands on silicon enable switchable topological textures for new electronic applications
"By fine tuning the first step of the silicon wafer passivation, we could induce the nucleation of these nanoislands," says Dong-Jik Kim, a scientist in Dubourdieu's team. These domains can be ...