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Commonwealth Fusion Systems outfit trousers cash to fire up fusion reactor
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Bill Gates and Nvidia back Commonwealth’s plan to bottle a star

Commonwealth Fusion Systems has hoovered up another $863 million in fresh capital to fuel its dream of turning nuclear fusion into a commercial energy business that doesn’t melt the budget.

US pulls plug on Samsung and SK Hynix’s China kit
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Waiver yanked, fabs stalled, shares tanked

Washington has slammed the door shut on a loophole that let South Korea’s biggest chipmakers sneak US gear into their Chinese fabs without the usual bureaucratic hoops.

IBM and AMD plot quantum mashup
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Two potentially dead and alive cats

IBM and AMD say they’re going to “build the future of computing” by welding quantum hardware to high-performance silicon, creating hybrid systems to crack problems too gnarly for either approach.

Samsung bets big on 2nm SF2P
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Korean giant eyes redemption with second-gen GAA node

Samsung’s messy 3nm debut may soon be old news as attention shifts to its 2nm GAA roadmap.

Trump’s stake deal was all about locking Intel into foundry
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Real countries have fabs

Intel has been strong-armed into holding on to its bleeding foundry business after Donald Trump’s administration tied subsidies to an equity grab.