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TSMC told customers it can't keep up with AI demand, even with the US buildout.

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Executives reportedly conceded "we can only support so much" (The Verge). This is the upstream constraint behind everything else, the single bottleneck that throttles every frontier lab and hyperscaler at the same time. All the data-center announcements downstream of this run into the same fab ceiling.

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TSMC told customers it can't keep up with AI demand, even with the US buildout.

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Meta's custom AI chip Iris enters production in September

ASML and TSMC to move EUV masks from 6-inch to 12-inch

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Meta plans to double AI compute to 14 GW by 2027 and mass-produce its own inference chip in September.

Feynman Architecture (2028): Inference-First Chip for Agent Long-Term Memory.

NSF launched a $100M State and Regional AI Infrastructure Hubs program.

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Meta's custom AI chip Iris enters production in September

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Meta plans to double AI compute to 14 GW by 2027 and mass-produce its own inference chip in September.

Feynman Architecture (2028): Inference-First Chip for Agent Long-Term Memory.

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Meta's custom AI chip Iris enters production in September

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Meta plans to double AI compute to 14 GW by 2027 and mass-produce its own inference chip in September.

Feynman Architecture (2028): Inference-First Chip for Agent Long-Term Memory.

NSF launched a $100M State and Regional AI Infrastructure Hubs program.

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