Igor Wallossek reports that Amech knew that its SGT-4 thermal paste could corrode copper and damage coolers since October 2024, but kept selling it with bogus compliance papers and later blamed critics instead of fixing the problem.

A U.S. startup is developing a compact particle-accelerator-based X-ray lithography system that could surpass ASML's EUV scanners in resolution and cut wafer costs tenfold by the end of the decade, but its plan to build its own fabs rather than sell tools means it must reinvent the entire semiconductor production supply chain from the ground up.