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As AI chips grow, packaging substrates shift from round wafers to square panels
As AI chips grow in area, investment is starting at home and abroad to switch packaging bases from round wafers to large square substrates. Using square panels can process 5 to 6 times more chips at once than wafers, raising area utilisation to 87 percent from 57 percent. Competition is also intensifying between Taiwan and South Korean companies over panel-level packaging, a process that reassembles cut chips on a panel and builds moulding and redistribution layers.
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TSMC July sales hit $14.5 billion, up 44.7 percent year on year
TSMC\'s July sales were tallied at $14.5 billion, up 44.7 percent from a year earlier. It said July revenue was 467.58 billion Taiwan dollars. The results show AI hardware orders continue to fill TSMC\'s production lines. In the second quarter, high-performance computing accounted for 66 percent of revenue. Chairman C.C. Wei said AI-related demand remains very strong, and the company raised its annual capex budget to $60 billion to $64 billion.
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Russia stages \'humanoid robot wedding\' with AI vows and bracelet exchange
Russia held a demonstration of the country’s first humanoid robot wedding at the Pushkin Library in Moscow, designed to publicise its humanoid-robot development capabilities. Two robots made by IT-Imperial, Robert and Matilda, exchanged AI-generated vows and swapped bracelets instead of rings. The event had no legal status. Images spread on social media and revived debate about robot use in education, entertainment and customer service.
