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 Legislation, the statement 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 laptop chips on the earth, that deserves a lot of the credit score for guaranteeing that progress stays doable. 

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

—Mat Honan & James O’Donnell

Why Threads is all of a sudden fashionable in Taiwan

For most individuals around the globe, Meta’s text-based social community Threads is a platform they seemingly 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 change into the preferred platform amongst younger individuals. However Threads’ sudden success on the island is advanced, and precarious. Learn the complete story.