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Every week, host Diana breaks down the most important stories, strategic moves, and emerging technologies shaping the global chip industry. From AI accelerators and advanced packaging to geopolitics and supply chains, we cover everything that’s powering the future of computing. In each weekly episode, you’ll get: 🔹 The top 3 semiconductor news stories of the week 🔹 A deep-dive into a key industry development or trend 🔹 Our signature Chip of the Week spotlight Whether you’re an engineer, exec ...
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Burrito Quest is all about...stamina. We (Ben, Isaac, and Daniel) ate our way through the Specialty Burrito menu at Santa Fe Grill, a fast food eatery located inside Pic Quik convenience stores in Las Cruces, New Mexco. This list is a good 60 burritos long, and it took us all of 2009, and a quarter of 2010. Along the way we met and (we like to think) befriended a burristro who we named Salsa Bro. Toward the end of our quest, Salsa Bro was unceremoniously fired for, rumor has it, giving free ...
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Quobly’s CEO Maud Vinet joins Chips Weekly to discuss the new era of “hard tech” semiconductors — and why the future of chip innovation demands a radically different approach. In this episode: • What the “hard tech era” really means and why it matters now • How Quobly is transforming chip design and performance with deep-tech innovation • The chall…
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This week in Chips Weekly by Diana, we dive into the stories shaping the global semiconductor race: 🇩🇪 GlobalFoundries expands its German fab with a €1.1 B investment, ⚙️ Germany faces new rare-earth and material shortages, and 🇰🇷 Nvidia + Samsung join forces to build South Korea’s AI chip superpower. In our Industry Spotlight, we explore the growi…
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The Chip Graveyard – Halloween Special | Chips Weekly Welcome to a spooky special edition of Chips Weekly! 👻 Today we’re digging up the most ambitious chips that failed — the ones that almost changed the future of computing… but didn’t make it. In this episode, Diana explores how billion-dollar ideas like Transmeta’s Crusoe, Intel’s Itanium, and Zi…
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AI isn’t just changing tech — it’s redrawing the global semiconductor map. This week on Chips Weekly by Diana: 🇰🇷 Samsung reports its strongest profit in three years as AI memory demand skyrockets. 🇹🇼 TSMC locks in every inch of its 2-nanometer capacity through 2026 and sets new profit records. 🇪🇺 Europe steps in to protect its chip sovereignty, se…
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This week on Chips Weekly by Diana, we unpack the biggest developments shaping the semiconductor world between Oct 1 – 9, 2025. China tightens rare-earth export controls, Intel unveils its first 18A chip — Panther Lake — built in Arizona, and Amkor breaks ground on a massive U.S. packaging campus. In our Industry Spotlight, we look at how new U.S. …
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Welcome to Chips Weekly — Special Edition! In this episode, we put two of the most advanced smartphone chips head-to-head: Apple’s A19 Pro powering the iPhone 17 Pro and Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 inside the newest Android flagships like the Honor Magic 8 Pro and OnePlus 15 Pro. We break down: 🧩 CPU, GPU, and NPU architecture ⚡️ AI perform…
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Issac joins us for the finale of Veggie Trek. We repeat another previously failed burro to round things out. Santa Fe Grill comes through in spades, with a veggie burrito that even Daniel would get again; good consistency and flavor but for a few undercooked potatoes. As this Trek rounds out we, perhaps inevitably, turn our collective mind to the f…
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Andele boned us last time, this time we take it back! We refine the ingredients for their Build-Your-Own burro and the results suffer improvement of a sort. Onions, you're out, as is your overwhelming flavor. The burrito is somewhat dry, and their omission of side-salsa does not help. The overall flavor is good though. We supplement, after an appro…
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Taco Bell, your bell has been rung for the last time. At least the last time during Veggie Trek. The previous excursion for this particular burro ended in failure, due to fowl incursion into what was supposed to be a strictly vegetarian affair. This burrito rings 'veggie true' if not completely 'tasty true.' A mushy melange of ingredients that tast…
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The Quest is in trouble. Andele is, a tasty establishment that we have visited in the past, serves us up another crushing defeat in our Veggie Trek. Daniel actually does some footwork ahead of time to figure out what ingredients they offer that meet our stringent veggie requirements for building-our-own burritos. Then Ben finds a tiny sliver of mea…
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Taco Bell gets a chance to redeem its previous meat-filled disaster. And redeem it does. Once again, corporate chemistry brings flavor and consistency to the veggie trek. We do manage to slightly confuse the name of this one with the one of their cheesier burritos, but the end result is vegetarian and delicious. We also get some of Taco Bell's new …
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We get the band back together! Isaac is in town (also, Jenni) for a busy weekend, so we opt for a brunch burrito. The Shed (formerly Old Mesilla Pastry Cafe) is a breakfast/lunch place with a dish called Migas, basically a bunch of veggies mixed with egg. They graciously threw the dish into a burrito for us, minus the cheese, but smothered in green…
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Those shits at Taco Bell screw us! We order Veggie Cantina Burritos and they give us the chicken version. We eat it anyway. We are joined by Alex and Nathan for a Burrito foursome. Ben searches his vegetarian soul and decides throwing the burro away is worse than eating it. His concessions are legion this episode. Nathan, long-time-fan-bq-virgin, h…
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Santa Fe Grill… Not much we can say that hasn't already been said. Vegetarians have options here, some X number of combinations that can be made from several veggie ingredients. We discuss Taco Bell's likely stringent IP policies. Amy doubles down on her contempt for vegetarianism by drinking her beverage after a fly had flavored it. Daniel worries…
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In this episode we order Taco Bell like rock stars. Not content with yet another bean burrito, we have them add potatoes and rice. The burrito stands up, not only to other vegetarian burritos, but also to other burritos from Taco Bell. Daniel touts his good ideas, like ordering Fresca-style. He also takes credit for, and poo-poos, Isaac's great ide…
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