MIT electronics researchers develop a new way to fabricate transistors on the backend of finished dies, to keep pushing the limit of chip densities ever higher

With smaller process nodes becoming increasingly more expensive to achieve, chip manufacturing engineers are turning to other ways to increase the number of transistors that can be packed into a single die. In some ways similar to traditional chip stacking, one research team has created a way to implement an extra layer of microscopic switches…

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MIT electronics researchers develop a new way to fabricate transistors on the backend of finished dies, to keep pushing the limit of chip densities ever higher

With smaller process nodes becoming increasingly more expensive to achieve, chip manufacturing engineers are turning to other ways to increase the number of transistors that can be packed into a single die. In some ways similar to traditional chip stacking, one research team has created a way to implement an extra layer of microscopic switches…

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‘We have spooked Disney legal’: Court filings reveal a KOTOR 2 remake stuck in the phantom zone, who’s working on the KOTOR 1 remake, plus Aspyr’s doomed efforts to get the Restored Content Mod past anxious lawyers

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2 is an unfinished game. Impressively unfinished, really. So unfinished that it doesn’t so much have a final level as it does an idea for one that you just kind of percolate through until you hit credits. I can’t blame Obsidian; the studio had an incredibly short time…

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Divinity’s trailer is cool, but I suspect Larian’s body-horror Burning Man splatfest doesn’t set an accurate tone for the full game—and if I’m right, it’ll be weird that it’s happened twice

Harvey Randall, Staff Writer (Image credit: Future) This week I’ve been: Preparing myself for the possibility of fighting Simon in Clair Obscur again. Last week I was: Recommending you go be cringe in World of Warcraft. It is 2019: Larian is announcing its new RPG, Baldur’s Gate 3. The studio releases a short, cinematic teaser…

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OpenAI is now 10 years old, but how well has its mission statement to ‘benefit all humanity’ aged?

Almost exactly 10 years ago, OpenAI was founded. The AI outfit’s CEO, Sam Altman, has marked the anniversary with a retrospective blog post which concludes much as the company’s original mission statement began, with a call to “benefit all humanity.” Question is, how well has that ambition aged? Specifically, Altman signs his latest blog post…

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Your bloodlust does have consequences in Arc Raiders, as a dev confirms, ‘we do analyse behaviour and match accordingly’

One of the biggest mysteries in Arc Raiders, even preceding its full release, has been how matchmaking works. During the beta, there was talk of a gear-based matchmaking system that had some players convinced it stuck around. But now the community has decided that Arc Raiders has a different kind of matchmaking. I’ve dubbed it…

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