On a colorless Monday February morning in California, on the drab San Jose Conference Heart, attendees of the SPIE Superior Lithography and Patterning Convention gathered to listen to tech trade luminaries extol the late Gordon Moore, Intel’s cofounder and first CEO, who handed in March final 12 months. 

Moore is finest recognized for pioneering Moore’s Regulation, the commentary that the variety of transistors on an built-in circuit doubles each two years or so. But when Moore deserves credit score for creating the legislation that drove the progress of the trade, it’s Dutch firm ASML, which makes the machines that in flip let producers produce probably the most superior pc chips on this planet, that deserves a lot of the credit score for making certain that progress stays attainable. 

But that additionally means the strain is on. ASML has to proceed ensuring chipmakers can preserve tempo with the legislation. Will that be attainable? Learn the complete story.

—Mat Honan & James O’Donnell

Why Threads is out of the blue fashionable in Taiwan

For most individuals world wide, Meta’s text-based social community Threads is a platform they possible haven’t considered for months. However for Liu, a design skilled in Taipei, it’s the place she’s receiving unprecedented consideration. 

She’s not the one particular person feeling this surge of recognition. Threads has dominated app-store obtain charts in Taiwan for months. Distinguished officers have arrange accounts, and it’s turn into the preferred platform amongst younger folks. However Threads’ sudden success on the island is advanced, and precarious. Learn the complete story.