DISRUPTIVE / TECHNOLOGY
Department · Hype off
Technology: systems in deployment, reported where they work.
Engineering and economics before hype, always. The Technology desks cover applied systems where they actually operate — factory floors, field deployments, production lines — reported from where it happens, on every continent, not just Silicon Valley — and keep a clear line between fact and claim.
Jude Callahan, Correspondent — technology & engineering
The assignment — what each desk covers, and who covers it.
The desks
The assignment.
Artificial Intelligence
Applied systems in deployment: what they do, how they are built, and what changes when industries adopt them. Not speculation.
Jude Callahan, Correspondent — technology & engineering
Robotics & Automation
Machines at work: industrial robotics, warehouse automation, physical AI — reported from factory floors and field deployments, not press releases.
Jude Callahan, Correspondent — technology & engineering
Aerospace & Defense Technology
Hard systems covered with technical accuracy and a clear line between fact and claim.
Jude Callahan, Correspondent — technology & engineering
Advanced Manufacturing
Processes, materials, and the economics of making things in a new industrial era.
Jude Callahan, Correspondent — technology & engineering
Transportation & Mobility
Vehicles, logistics, mobility systems. Engineering first, hype never.
Jude Callahan, Correspondent — technology & engineering
From the desk
The latest stories.
Stories from this desk — newest first.
Technology · News · North America · New York
GlobalFoundries Will Build TSMC's CoWoS Interposers in New York
A $2 billion agreement puts GlobalFoundries' Malta fab inside the AI supply chain's tightest bottleneck: the silicon interposers that stitch GPUs to memory in TSMC's CoWoS packages.
Technology · News · Asia · Japan
Rapidus Builds Its 2nm Alliance: Seventeen Partners, One Missing Piece
Japan’s $15 billion chipmaker unveiled a 17-company design ecosystem this week. The partners are real. The customers are still the question.
Technology · Retrospective · North America · Hanover, New Hampshire
Seventy Years After Dartmouth: The Summer That Named Artificial Intelligence
In the summer of 1956, a handful of scientists met at Dartmouth College and gave a field its name. Seventy years later, the name is on everything — and the conjecture is still open.
Technology · Retrospective · Asia · South Korea
Ten Years After the Note 7: The Recall That Rewired Battery Safety
On October 11, 2016 — ten years ago today — Samsung killed its flagship phone. The industry has spent a decade making sure it never happens again.
Technology · Evergreen · Global · the instruction set
Open Source Comes to Silicon: The RISC-V Explainer
The most important layer of the computer is the one nobody sees. For sixty years it was proprietary. A 2010 summer project at Berkeley set out to change that.
Technology · Evergreen · Global · the adoption curve
The S-Curve: Why Technologies Arrive Slowly, Then All at Once
Every technology feels inevitable after the fact. The most useful model of how adoption actually unfolds is more than sixty years old — and still explains why the future arrives late, then early.
Technology · Evergreen · Global · the industry, not a place
Moore’s Law at Sixty: What Gordon Moore Actually Predicted
It wasn’t a law, it wasn’t about speed, and the doubling period changed. The most famous prediction in technology, read properly.
Technology · News · Europe · Dresden, Germany
Dresden’s Billion-Euro Bet on Chips for the Physical World
GlobalFoundries has topped out its €1.1 billion SPRINT fab expansion and unveiled FDX Fusion — a chip platform designed for what the industry now calls Physical AI.
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