The Trump administration agrees to inject up to $150M in xLight, which develops lasers for EUV machines and has Pat Gelsinger on its board, for an equity stake (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: The Trump administration agrees to inject up to $150M in xLight, which develops lasers for EUV machines and has Pat Gelsinger on its board, for an equity stake  —  XLight to get up to $150 million to develop ultraprecise lasers for squeezing more circuits onto semiconductors

Our favorite new products this holiday season

Moon Mission 100mm Tabletop Dobsonian CelestronTorrance, California Celestron’s Moon Mission 100mm Tabletop Dobsonian is a 4-inch f/4 reflector. It comes with two eyepieces, a finder scope, and a Moon filter. The assembled unit weighs 5.3 pounds (2.4 kilograms), and the optical tube measures 14.2 inches (361 millimeters) long. $179.951-310-803-5955www.celestron.com D80-FCD100 […]

Q&A with ex-Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger on the “decay” at Intel, the Chip Act’s terrible execution, the irony of Lip-Bu Tan broadly following his strategy, and more (Michael Acton/Financial Times)

Michael Acton / Financial Times: Q&A with ex-Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger on the “decay” at Intel, the Chip Act’s terrible execution, the irony of Lip-Bu Tan broadly following his strategy, and more  —  The executive on the ‘hideous’ implementation of the 2022 Chips Act, his new role heading up a […]