Financial Times: Pat Gelsinger says TSMC’s pledge to invest $100B+ in US chip manufacturing will do little to restore the US’ chipmaking leadership as R&D will remain in Taiwan  —  Pat Gelsinger, who has taken on role at venture capital firm, says US must boost R&D to gain ‘semiconductor leadership’ Lees verder op Tech Meme

Newley Purnell / Bloomberg: Meta VP of Asia Pacific Dan Neary is leaving for personal reasons; the Singapore-based executive joined in 2013, and Meta now has ~1.1B users in the region  —  Dan Neary, the company’s vice president for the region, assumed the role in 2013 and oversaw the rapid expansion of the company’s user base … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Charles Rollet / TechCrunch: A leaked Chinese dataset on “public opinion work” reveals 133,000 entries fed into an LLM designed to automatically flag content deemed sensitive by China  —  A complaint about poverty in rural China.  A news report about a corrupt Communist Party member. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Casey Muratori / Computer, Enhance!: Q&A with Mike Clark, the chief architect of AMD’s Zen microarchitecture, on x86, ARM, CPUs vs GPUs, Zen 4 to Zen 5, software developers, and more  —  Zen is one of the most important microarchitectures in the history of the x86 ecosystem.  Not only is it the reigning champion in many x64 benchmarks … Lees verder op Tech Meme