Market Highlights: Bitcoin & Ether on the Rise, With Caution Bitcoin (BTC) spent the week on a roller coaster but showed resilience by Aug. 28. After dipping below $110,000 amid a mid-week risk-off pullback, BTC rebounded above $111K–$113K ts2.tech, buoyed by broader market strength – the S&P 500 hit fresh highs and chipmaker Nvidia’s stellar…
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Key Facts Space and Astronomy A Planet Is Born: In a feat long thought nearly impossible, astronomers have directly imaged a planet in the act of forming. Using the ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile, a team snapped a clear picture of WISPIT 2b, a gas giant about five times Jupiter’s mass, carving out a gap…
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Key Facts Hardware Developments (Chips & Devices) U.S. Bets Big on Intel’s Chips: In a dramatic government intervention, Intel confirmed it received $5.7 billion in cash on Aug. 27 as part of a U.S.-negotiated deal for a 10% stake in the company reuters.com. The investment – orchestrated by President Donald Trump – is meant to ensure Intel…
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Key Facts HBM Node Transition: From HBM3 to HBM4 High-Bandwidth Memory has evolved rapidly to keep pace with AI needs. HBM3 – introduced around 2022 – brought huge leaps in bandwidth and capacity per stack, and became the workhorse memory for top-tier AI accelerators like NVIDIA’s A100/H100 and Google TPUs. By 2023, attention shifted to…
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Key Facts Introduction: Chiplets and 3D Integration Come of Age Semiconductor design is undergoing a paradigm shift from giant monolithic chips toward chiplet-based and multi-die architectures. In a chiplet approach, a processor is disaggregated into multiple smaller dies (chiplets) that are later integrated in a package, rather than one large die. This strategy improves manufacturing…
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RISC-V Shipments Soar in Edge & IoT Devices Once a niche academic project, RISC-V is now shipping in billions of devices, especially at the edge. RISC-V International reports the ISA is implemented in over 13 billion cores on the market as of end-2023 riscv.org – a stunning rise driven largely by IoT and embedded use…
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In-Depth Report COVID-19 Vaccines and U.S. Public Health Upheaval Targeted Fall Boosters, But Access Tightened: U.S. health authorities approved new monovalent COVID-19 vaccines (by Pfizer–BioNTech, Moderna, and Novavax) updated for the 2025–26 season reuters.com. Unlike prior booster rollouts, the FDA restricted under-65 eligibility to those with risk factors, aligning with guidance from HHS Secretary Robert…
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Key Facts Market Overview: Bitcoin, Ether and Altcoins Rally (With Caution) Bitcoin (BTC) saw choppy trading on August 27, 2025, dipping under $110,000 before recovering above $111,000 by day’s end, as shown in the intraday price chart above nasdaq.com. After a volatile start to the week, Bitcoin (BTC) regained ground to trade around $112K–$113K by…
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Key Facts Space and Astronomy August 27–28 delivered big news from the cosmos. Astronomers witnessed a planet in the making for the first time: using ESO’s Very Large Telescope, a team directly imaged WISPIT 2b, a gas giant forming within the dusty rings of a young star sci.news sci.news. The newborn planet, about five times Jupiter’s…
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SpaceX Launches & Reusability Milestones On Aug. 27 SpaceX’s Falcon 9 lifted off from Cape Canaveral carrying 28 Starlink V2 Mini satellites, and its first-stage booster (B1095) successfully returned to SpaceX’s droneship in the Atlantic. Spaceflight reports confirm this landing marks the company’s 400th ocean recovery of a Falcon first stage space.com space.com. The booster had…
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