HPC News Bytes 20240408: Chips Ahoy! …and Quantum Error Rate Progress

A good April morning to you! Chips dominate the HPC-AI news landscape, which has become something of an industry commonplace of late, including:

– TSMC’s Arizona advanced chip fab reportedly back on schedule

– The Dutch government makes a funding pitch for chip manufacturing equipment maker ASML

– Intel foundry business reports current and future losses

– TSMC expands CoWoS capacity

– SK hynix to invest $3.9B in Indiana HBM fab and R&D center with Purdue

– Quantinuum and Microsoft report big improvement in qubit fidelity: 14,000 error-free instances

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