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For Sale: Luc Donckerwolke’s RUF-Modified 1970 Porsche 914/6

This is a 1970 Porsche 914/6 that benefits from a series of major upgrades, including an upgrade to M471 GT specification by Antwerpse Automobile Company

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Sep 27 • 7:30 AM EDT • Technology • silodrome.com
The proof that Alexander Isak was worth £125 million

Alexander Isak didn’t hit the ground running like many hoped he would following a £125 million move from Newcastle last summer. The Swede failed to settle into Arne Slot’s side and then suffered ...

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Sep 27 • 7:05 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Fernando Alonso Says Car Is Improving Despite Starting in P19

The Spaniard suffers a lock-up in Q1 that leaves him nineteenth and he will start last due to engine penalties. He acknowledges that the AMR26 has improved in the corners but warns that the lack of top speed is an insurmountable burden in Azerbaijan.

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Sep 27 • 3:21 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Team Gives Latest Health Update on UFC Fighter Raoni Barcelos

The team of UFC fighter Raoni Barcelos gave the latest health update on their fighter following a frightening scene at UFC Vegas 121.The main event of UFC Vegas 121 ended with a scary situation when Barcelos was finished via fifth-round TKO by Raul Rosas Jr. after a gruelling five-round war that left both men bloodied […] The post Team Gives Latest Health Update on UFC Fighter Raoni Barcelos appeared first on HEAVY.

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Sep 27 • 3:07 AM EDT • Health • sports.yahoo.com
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Penn State postgame report card: Grading Nittany Lions vs. Wisconsin

Penn State football suffered a stunning 24-20 loss to Wisconsin, raising serious questions about the team's future.

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Sep 27 • 3:01 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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8 more Bills vs. Chargers predictions, scores, odds for Week 3 game

Just one NFL expert thinks the Los Angeles Chargers can escape Sunday with a win against the Buffalo Bills.

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Sep 27 • 3:00 AM EDT • Sports • democratandchronicle.com
UFC provides medical update on Raoni Barcelos following scary knockout

The UFC released an official statement regarding the health of Raoni Barcelos following UFC Fight Night 289.

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Sep 27 • 2:51 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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UFC Vegas 121 Bonuses Revealed After Upset-Filled Card

Following an upset-filled card, the post-fight bonuses for UFC Vegas 121 were revealed following the event. There were 12 UFC fights on the card, with eight finishes. Check out the bonus winners below. Fight of the Night ($100,000 to each fighter): Raul Rosas Jr. vs. Raoni Barcelos In the main event, Raul Rosas Jr. defeated […] The post UFC Vegas 121 Bonuses Revealed After Upset-Filled Card appeared first on HEAVY.

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Sep 27 • 2:14 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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A Stress-Free International Break For Sunderland? Not A Chance

Having so many players on international duty is often risky, as injuries suffered by Dan Ballard and Brian Brobbey show.

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Sep 27 • 1:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
OpenAI, Anthropic CEOs called to appear at Australian AI probe

SYDNEY, Sept 27 (Reuters) - The CEOs of OpenAI and Anthropic have been called to appear at an Australian Senate inquiry on AI, the head of the probe said on

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Sep 27 • 12:26 AM EDT • Business • lufkindailynews.com
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UFC Vegas 121 Results, Bonus Winners And Highlights

Raul Rosas Jr. stopped Raoni Barcelos at 1:38 of the fifth round at UFC Vegas 121. Full results, bonus winners and the latest on Barcelos.

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Sep 27 • 12:04 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
UFC Vegas 121 Bonuses! Officer Hernandez Brings Home The Bacon

Raul Rosas Jr. punched his ticket to the bantamweight rankings last night (Sat., Sept. 26, 2026) at UFC Vegas 121 LIVE on Paramount+ from inside Meta Apex in Las Vegas, Nevada, earning a scary knockout win over veteran Raoni Barcelos in the main event of the evening (see it HERE). In addition to bantamweight headliner, […]

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Sep 26 • 11:56 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Raoni Barcelos health update: UFC Vegas 121 headliner awake after terrifying fight finish

Some good news has emerged following a terrifying end to UFC Vegas 121. Raoni Barcelos was stretchered out of the Meta Apex in Las Vegas, Nevada, following a bizarre and downright terrifying finish to his main event fight against Raul Rosas Jr. tonight (Sat., Sept. 26, 2026). Thankfully, the first update on the 39-year-old Brazilian […]

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Sep 26 • 11:33 PM EDT • Health • sports.yahoo.com
Peter Thiel Says Trump Administration Is Staffed By 'Not Very Smart' People
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Sep 26 • 10:13 PM EDT • Politics • yahoo.com
Confidence in the Chicago Bears drop

The Chicago Bears suffered a tough loss last week in sloppy, wet conditions at Soldier Field, and the weather certainly slowed their high-powered offense. But Brian Flores’ blitz-happy Minnesota Vikings’ defense gave Chicago’s offense fits too. The Bears had their chances, and knowing the makeup of this team and head coach Ben Johnson, they’ll learn […]

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Sep 26 • 9:45 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Takeaways from Maryland football’s stunning 54-3 defeat versus UCLA

The Terps suffered their largest losing margin since November of 2019.

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Sep 26 • 7:53 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Oklahoma Sooners Suffer Humiliating Loss to the Georgia Bulldgos

Four first-half turnovers and a stagnant offense betrayed Oklahoma’s elite defense in Athens, allowing the Bulldogs to cruise toward a dominant victory before the fourth quarter began

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Sep 26 • 7:41 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Bills Elevate One Player from Practice Squad for Week 3

With Jordan Hancock sidelined by a hamstring injury, undrafted rookie Te’Cory Couch joins the active roster to bolster a depleted secondary ahead of Sunday’s clash with the Chargers.

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Sep 26 • 7:27 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Bryan Rust Injured in Penguins’ Preseason Finale

Pittsburgh Penguins stalwart Bryan Rust left Saturday’s preseason finale at Buffalo because of an undisclosed injury. Rust, who has pretty […]

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Sep 26 • 6:04 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Did Seattle Mariners Suffer From an ALCS Hangover?
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Sep 26 • 5:07 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
5 Chargers to watch vs. Bills in Week 3

Can the underachieving Chargers break through against Buffalo?

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Sep 26 • 4:00 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Lions Have No Excuses Against a Banged-Up Jets Team

After getting embarrassed by Buffalo, the Lions have had four extra days to stew. Now, Detroit gets a banged-up Jets team at Ford Field—and a chance to make a statement.

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Sep 26 • 3:12 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Gameday: Sabres host Pittsburgh in preseason finale

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Sep 26 • 3:02 PM EDT • Sports • audacy.com
Qua Moss injury update for Tennessee football vs Texas

Qua Moss suffered an injury while tackling Arch Manning in Tennessee football's game vs Texas on Sept. 26 at Neyland Stadium.

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Sep 26 • 3:01 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Preseason Gamethread: Penguins @ Sabres

Talk about the last preseason game with Pens fans here! The game will be broadcast locally on Sportsnet Pittsburgh+ and MSG-B in the respective local areas for Pittsburgh and Buffalo. Nationally, it will be carried on NHL Network. It will be available via audio on the internet/radio from 105.9 The X.

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Sep 26 • 2:45 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Real Madrid provide updates on Kylian Mbappé injury

Having been substituted due to injury during France’s 1–0 victory over Turkey on Friday, Kylian Mbappé (27) has suffered a hyperextension of the posterior joint capsule in his left knee, Real Mad...

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Sep 26 • 1:20 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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This week, we honor the professional staff of our Forensic Science...

This week, we honor the professional staff of our Forensic Science Division and Technical Investigation Division. Your meticulous work and attention to detail serves as an essential resource to our...

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Sep 26 • 1:08 PM EDT • Science • facebook.com
🚨 Alarm in Madrid: medical update on Mbappé injury

A major blow for Kylian Mbappé and Real Madrid.After suffering an injury yesterday during the Nations League match between Turkey and France, Real Madrid has revealed the extent of his problem."Follo...

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Sep 26 • 12:54 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
LIVE! Till vs. Romero Streaming Updates TODAY!

Former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) standouts Darren Till vs. Yoel Romero will take their talents to the bareknuckle boxing ring later TODAY (Sat., Sept. 26, 2026), headlining BKFC 94 from inside Manchester Arena, Manchester, England, streaming live on DAZN. Neither man is a stranger to the bare knuckle boxing scene, as Romero is fresh off […]

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Sep 26 • 12:45 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Tennessee football OL Wendell Moe suffers injury vs Texas

Tennessee football left guard Wendell Moe left the game against Texas on Sept. 26 on the Vols' opening drive.

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Sep 26 • 12:32 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Trump declines to say if Ukraine can manufacture Patriot missiles to fend off Russian attacks

President Donald Trump declined to say if he agreed to allow Ukraine manufacture Patriot missiles a day after Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky reported he would.

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Sep 26 • 12:09 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
Political Pulse: Rep. Steve Duffy campaigns on Rapid City workforce development and retention in District 32

GOP incumbent Rep. Steve Duffy shares why workforce housing, keeping young families in Rapid City, and smart growth are central to his District 32 reelection bid.

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Sep 26 • 11:00 AM EDT • Politics • kotatv.com
Intel Panther Lake Teardown, 18A, BSPD, GAAFET, SemiAnalysis STEEL

Panther Lake debuts the first commercial implementation of backside power delivery (BSPDN), introduces Intel’s first iteration of gate-all-around (GAA) transistors, and showcases their advanced packaging capabilities with its Foveros-S assembly. With Panther Lake, Intel’s manufacturing arc has shifted from nebulous roadmaps to shipped silicon, a significant milestone on their long road back to competitive semiconductor manufacturing. To evaluate the extent of Intel’s comeback, we tore down Panther Lake. The SemiAnalysis STEEL teardown lab breaks down advanced datacenter and AI hardware. To learn more about our pipeline or to commission a teardown, contact sales@semianalysis.com. WE’RE HIRING: Architecture, floorplan, packaging, manufacturing, and labs experts. Opportunities from system to transistor and everywhere in between. Check out our Careers page. Our teardown traces 18A from its four-sheet RibbonFETs (Intel’s marketing name for GAAFETs) and gate stacks through contacts, frontside and backside wiring, and the bonded carrier. We explain how these material and integration choices improve gate control and reduce resistance, while adding capacitance, thermal resistance, and process complexity. Our measurements put Panther Lake’s 18A compute logic and TSMC N3E GPU logic at similar logic density. However, 18A does not lead TSMC N3P, N2 or Samsung SF2 in peak density. Panther Lake’s CPU cores are incremental updates, and the high-end GPU still uses TSMC N3E. Panther Lake assembles one compute tile, one GPU tile, and one I/O tile atop a passive base tile using Intel’s Foveros-S advanced packaging. Both compute tile variants use Intel 18A. The Xe3 GPU options are a 4-core GT1 tile on Intel 3 and a larger 12-core GT2 tile on TSMC N3E. Both I/O tile variants use TSMC N6. [1], [2] Our analysis centers on the PTL-U compute tile, both the 4-core and 12-core GPU tiles, as well as the 12-lane I/O tile. In conventional chips, power and signal are routed through the same frontside metal stack towards the device frontend. Power rails consume scarce routing resources near the transistors, while tall via stacks carry VDD and VSS from the coarse upper wires to local rails. Backside power delivery (BSPD) moves the main power network behind the transistor layer, to the backside, separating it from frontside signal routing. We covered BSPD and its impacts in 2024. [3], [4], [5] Intel’s BSPD implementation, branded as “PowerVia”, routes power through dedicated backside metals to nano-TSVs, which connect those rails to local source/drain (S/D) contacts. Implementing that separation requires Intel to build the interconnect stacks from both sides of the wafer. The frontside comprises the M0-M14 signal stack, while the backside comprises the BM0-BM5 power stack. M0 and BM0 are closest to the transistors. The nano-TSVs connect the two sides, but Intel patterns and etches each via from the front after forming the contacts. A narrow via runs from the side of the contact deep into the silicon substrate. Intel then completes the frontside signal metal stack, bonds the wafer to a carrier, flips it and removes the original substrate until the buried via tips are exposed. The backside metal stack is then deposited directly on the revealed vias. The nano-TSV and backside-via profiles taper in opposite directions because Intel forms them from opposite sides of the wafer. The transistor structures form the FEOL. Local contacts and nano-TSVs connect them to the wiring. M0 begins the frontside interconnect stack. The silicon carrier remains attached above the frontside interconnects. It supports the device wafer during substrate removal and backside processing and remains part of the finished chip’s thermal path. PowerVia removes the main power distribution from the congested frontside metals, routing supply through shorter and wider backside wires. Its lateral landing still occupies area in the standard cell, so it recovers less cell area than a direct backside contact. [3] Nano-TSVs beside the logic devices carry VDD or VSS from the backside power network, while signal connections continue upward through the frontside metals. Backside Interconnects Samsung SF2 data is included for comparison to Panther Lake’s within this article. SF2 is the incumbent GAA foundry node but lacks BSPD, serving as a useful reference to evaluate 18A. A full teardown of Samsung’s S26 products, processed on SF2, will be shared soon.Nanosheet-cut EDS comparison. The PowerVia supply path runs from the backside Cu rails through Mo-lined W nano-TSVs to the local transistor contacts. In this cross section, the tapered connection spans roughly 150 nm from the contact level to BM0. The Ta liner confines Cu and promotes adhesion to the surrounding stack; the AlOₓ etch stop controls the next dielectric etch above the rail. Dielectric beneath the ribbons electrically separates the devices from the backside wiring and removes the conducting silicon body below the channel. [6] AlOₓ serves as an etchstop (ES), enabling endpointing and protecting the underlying layers. Low-volatility aluminum fluoride reaction products resist the fluorinated plasma, allowing a thin AlOₓ film to protect the metal while the surrounding low-k dielectric is removed. [6], [7]. While the BM0 and layers above the M1 lines show double AlOx layers, Our SMIC N+3 teardown showed single AlOₓ layers. SMIC uses a simpler local AlOₓ substack, while the remaining cap and etch sequence provide the required landing protection. So why double layers? The closely spaced AlOₓ doublets provide two protected endpoints in the etch sequence. Intel documents an AlOₓ/SiN/AlOₓ stack that explains the benefit. The main dielectric plasma etch stops on the first AlOₓ film; a selective wet clear opens that film; a second plasma etch removes the intermediate SiN and stops on the second AlOₓ film. The final wet clear exposes the metal landing surface. SiN is the intermediate dielectric in Intel’s published example. [8] The second stop protects the metal through a cap breakthrough. Wide openings can etch faster than narrow ones, and etch depth varies across the wafer. Metal under an early-clearing opening would otherwise be exposed while other openings still need more etching. Staged protection widens the process window and reduces metal erosion, corrosion and void formation. [8] TSMC documents AlN/AlOₓ/SiOC/AlOₓ above Cu, with AlN blocking Cu diffusion, and a simpler AlN/SiOC/AlOₓ variant that omits one AlOx film. [9] Levels with different opening sizes, aspect ratios, pattern densities and cap materials need different etch margins. A double AlOx stop is useful where another protected endpoint justifies the added processing. The extra film adds formation, selective opening and cleaning steps, plus another set of interfaces to control adhesion, moisture, and stress. These blanket films are opened through the existing via pattern, so each film does not require another lithography mask. AlOₓ adds parasitic capacitance when it replaces lower-k dielectric; two thin AlOₓ films can nevertheless contain less AlOₓ than one thick film. Total thickness, placement, and theintermediate dielectric determine the electrical cost. Deposition chemistry also changes AlOx permittivity and residual hydroxyl content, which can oxidize the underlying metal. [7], [8], [10], [11] The backside stack separates into relatively fine BM0-BM2 wiring near the devices and coarser BM3-BM5 power distribution. The largest pitch increase occurs between BM2 and BM3. BM0’s pitch closely matches the logic-row height, fitting local power delivery to the cell rows. Higher levels aggregate current through larger conductors: routing density becomes less important than low resistance and current capacity as the network approaches the package. This hierarchy provides wide power wiring for the power delivery network without consuming scarce frontside signal-routing resources. [3] The SemiAnalysis STEEL teardown lab breaks down advanced datacenter and AI hardware. To learn more about our pipeline or to commission a teardown, contact sales@semianalysis.com. WE’RE HIRING: Architecture, floorplan, packaging, manufacturing, and labs experts. Opportunities from system to transistor and everywhere in between. Check out our Careers page. Frontside Interconnects Intel 18A combines Mo-lined W contacts and nano-TSVs with a separate backside Cu power network. Samsung SF2 keeps power on the frontside, using Ti-based contact interfaces and Ta-based barriers and Co liners around Cu wiring. In 18A standard-cell rows, backside power rails supply the devices through nano-TSVs within the cells, freeing frontside routing resources. Samsung’s M0 accommodates both power and signal connections. From the device toward M0, the connection runs through a Ti-based S/D interface, W contact fill, a Mo-lined W via, and the Cu M0 wire. Mo supplies a conductive nucleation and adhesion layer for W, replacing the resistive TiN liner used in conventional W integration. This increases the effective conduction volume within the feature while retaining W fill and its established polishing, cleaning and etching processes. Intel’s Mo/W patent describes this integration tradeoff. The nano-TSV uses the same Mo-lined W construction in the backside supply path. [12] The move from TiN to Mo is an incremental change. While a full Co or Mo fill can also reduce the volume lost to liners in very small features, it requires new integration schemes that increase complexity and risk. Cu remains attractive for wider wires due to its low resistance. As wires and vias shrink, the diffusion barrier consumes an increasing fraction of their cross-section. [12], [12], [14] Intel uses Co/Ru liners at M0-M1, Co at M2-M4, and Nb at M5-M9. The lower-level liners help Cu adhere and reduce void formation during trench fills. Applied Materials’ Endura has new thermal control that facilitate wetting process, so the thin film continuity is good enough that good capillary pressure will drive Cu atoms to the via bottom without voiding. Intel’s choice to use Nb is particularly interesting. Intel’s Nb patent describes a conductive diffusion barrier intended to reduce the barrier’s contribution to resistance relative to conventional Ta-based barriers, particularly at via bottoms where all current crosses the barrier. The patent pairs Nb in coarser levels with the option of lower-cost PVD processing. [15], [16] The upper metal layers support thicker barriers formed through physical vapor deposition (PVD) despite its worse coverage and uniformity. Meanwhile, the lower metal layers require thinner barriers deposited through conformal atomic layer deposition (ALD). Co/Ru adds another material interface and requires controlled deposition and Cu fill. Changing liners and barriers by metal layer allows Intel to optimize interconnect resistance, process complexity, and reliability. [15, 16] RibbonFET, Intel’s name for its gate-all-around FETs (GAAFETs), replaces the FinFET’s vertical fins with four stacked horizontal silicon nanosheets, allowing the gate to surround the channel on every side. The path to GAAFET begins with the planar transistor. A planar MOSFET places the gate above the channel between its source and drain. Pairing an NMOS with a PMOS transistor creates a CMOS inverter, in which the NMOS pulls the output low for a high input, and the PMOS pulls it high for a low input. The gate must retain electrostatic control of the channel to ensure clean switching. As gate lengths shrank, the drain began to compete with the gate for that control, increasing off-state leakage. Electrostatic control was restored through an architectural evolution that raised the channel into a vertical fin and wrapping the gate around three sides. Called “FinFET”, this new architecture packed more effective channel width into a smaller footprint. Further scaling made it harder to maintain both drive current and leakage within smaller cells, and reintroduced the same problems planar MOSFETs faced. Nanosheet GAAFETs close the fourth side by replacing the vertical fin with a stack of horizontal nanosheets, each surrounded by the gate. The tighter electrostatic control suppresses leakage at shorter gate lengths while stacking adds effective channel width within the cell footprint. In a FinFET process, channel width changes in discrete steps as designers must add or remove whole fins. Nanosheet width can instead be adjusted continuously within the process’s design rules. Wider sheets increase drive current, while narrower sheets reduce capacitance at the cost of drive current. Intel 18A uses stacks of four nanosheets each and varies their widths across logic and SRAM. At the process level, adding more sheets to each stack increases effective channel width and drive current, but complicates fabrication. RibbonFET vs MBCFET Samsung began GAAFET production in 2022 with SF3E, following with SF3 and now SF2. Its ‘MBCFET’ provides a useful structural comparison with Intel’s first RibbonFET implementation. [17] STEEL is digging deeper into SF2, used in the Exynos 2600, and TSMC’s GAAFET N2, used in Apple’s A20 Pro, in upcoming newsletter articles. We’re throwing some teasers on X. Let’s compare Samsung SF2’s MBCFET with Intel 18A’s RibbonFET. Subscribe Even to the untrained eye, Intel’s extra nanosheet is obvious. Intel stacks four ribbons to Samsung’s three. Samsung’s sheets are much wider in these fields, so both sheet count and width matter to the available channel perimeter. Sheet width also changes which silicon surfaces carry current. On conventional (001) silicon, wide nanosheets emphasize the broad top and bottom surfaces, favoring electron transport; the larger sidewall contribution in a narrow sheet favors hole transport. Thinner sheets improve gate control but increase confinement and scattering. This makes width and thickness part of the NMOS/PMOS balance, alongside strain and threshold voltage. [18], [19] GAAFET designs like 18A use different work-function-metal (WFM) stacks for NMOS and PMOS. Around each ribbon, a thin SiOx interfacial layer separates the silicon channel from the HfOx high-k dielectric, with La providing dipole tuning and the WFM wrapping the dielectric. NMOS uses a TiAl-based stack, while PMOS uses TiN WFM. W fills the remaining gate trench, providing a lower-resistivity path where the work-function layers are no longer needed. In this field, the PMOS stacks leave room for W between ribbons, while the NMOS stacks occupy more of those gaps. A silicon-based dielectric marks the P/N boundary, allowing the PMOS and NMOS gates, sharing the same gate trench, to be processed sequentially. Fast logic paths, retention circuits, and SRAM need a family of threshold options. Changing threshold without substantially changing device dimensions, capacitance or fabrication complexity is valuable. FinFET processes typically use different work-function-metal stacks. In a four-ribbon GAA stack, the narrow sheet-to-sheet gap limits how much WFM can fit around each channel. La in the gate dielectric creates interfacial dipoles at the SiOx/HfOx boundary, shifting effective work function and tuning threshold voltage. This gives Intel another control alongside its NMOS and PMOS WFM stacks. Low-threshold devices improve critical-path drive; higher thresholds reduce leakage elsewhere. Dipole tuning is especially useful in GAA because it changes threshold without consuming the narrow intersheet gap with thicker WFM. Precise control of La incorporation, diffusion and interface quality has long been a challenge, limiting viability in high volume production but is now seen from every leading-edge foundry. Intel’s patent describes depositing a dipole-forming oxide above HfOx and annealing it toward the interfacial oxide before completing the work-function and fill metals. This separates threshold tuning from the space available for metal. Newer research addresses the thermal cost: imec’s 2026 dipole-middle research inserts the shifter between two HfOx depositions, shortening the diffusion path while protecting SiOx during patterning. [20], [21]Matched-cut EDS, Intel 18A (left) vs. Samsung SF2 (right). Intel retains raised source/drain epi beneath its contacts, while Samsung recesses W deep into the epi to form a V-shaped Ti-lined interface. The deeper contact increases metal-to-semiconductor area and shortens the current path from the lower sheets, reducing contact and spreading resistance. It also removes epi volume and brings the contact etch closer to the channel ends. Retaining more epi preserves the material available for strain transfer, especially from SiGe into PMOS. These geometries balance contact access against stress engineering and etch margin. [22], [23] Samsung stacks three sheets to Intel’s four ribbons, and both processes use sheet width to tune drive strength. In our Samsung cross-sections, widths range roughly from 19 to 30 nm in the NPU rows and 37 to 50 nm in the CU cell. The Samsung nanosheets taper, with the widest sheet at the bottom and the narrowest at the top. Both processes use HfOx gate dielectric and Ti-based work-function stacks, with Al in the NMOS stack. In the Samsung devices shown here, the dielectric and WFM occupy the intersheet gaps, leaving W above the top sheet. Intel’s PMOS stack leaves more room between ribbons, and W fills those gaps while the thicker NMOS stack leaves W mainly in the upper trench. Gate-stack EDS maps. The W between Intel’s PMOS ribbons provides a conductive path close to the lower gates. Where WFM fills the entire gap, the gate still surrounds the channel, but voltage reaches it through the more resistive work-function films. Thinner WFM and dipole tuning preserve room for low-resistivity fill; Mo and Ru are alternative fill metals being developed for further scaling. [24] A masked, sequential WFM flow explains the different gate heights and inter-nanosheet fill. The proposed sequence below shows how separate NMOS and PMOS work-function steps produce that geometry. Enabled by the BSPDN process, Intel replaces the dense-logic silicon subfin with dielectric, removing the parasitic conduction path below the ribbons and reducing substrate-related capacitance. A retained silicon body as in classical, non-SOI, planar and FinFET designs needs junction and punchthrough-stop engineering to suppress leakage. Dielectric isolation makes that leakage less sensitive to the subfin doping profile but adds removal and fill steps. It also weakens the direct thermal path through silicon, making the contacts, metal stacks and package more important for heat extraction. [24], [26] Fluorine is concentrated around selected Intel device structures in the maps. WF6 is a standard precursor for W nucleation and fill, while barrier films protect adjacent dielectrics from fluorine attack. Low-fluorine W processes reduce the residual-F burden. Chloride-based precursors avoid introducing F during W deposition, but require control of chlorine attack, nucleation and fill quality. The integration target is a continuous, low-resistance W path with a thin protective liner and minimal chemical damage to the surrounding stack. [20], [27], [28] The SemiAnalysis STEEL teardown lab breaks down advanced datacenter and AI hardware. To learn more about our pipeline or to commission a teardown, contact sales@semianalysis.com. WE’RE HIRING: Architecture, floorplan, packaging, manufacturing, and labs experts. Opportunities from system to transistor and everywhere in between. Check out our Careers page. We measured cell height, gate pitch, metal geometry, and ribbon dimensions at the XTEM sites shown below. The tables group these dimensions by site and device polarity. Our “sheet cuts” cross the silicon channel and show the ribbons end-on. “gate cuts” run along the channel through successive gates. The 18A logic cell dimensions point to a five-track logic library while the N3E and Intel 3 cell dimensions evidence a seven-track logic library. The DDR-PHY uses wider M0 wires and much larger spacing than core logic. That trades routing density for lower wire resistance and weaker coupling between neighboring nets. The geometry suits the current delivery and coupling requirements of analog, clock, and I/O circuitry. PowerVia lets 18A combine a compact cell height with wider M0 geometry by moving the main power rails off the signal-routing tracks. That relaxes local wire scaling while preserving a small cell footprint. Cell height and gate pitch set the geometric density; pin access and routability determine how much of it a real block can use. [29] The biggest takeaway from our gate-pitch measurements is that Intel 18A compute logic and TSMC N3E GPU logic have similar density in the Bohr representative-cell model. The 18A example is 18.6% denser than the Intel 3 GPU example. Gate pitches are nearly identical across the three sites, so cell height drives most of the difference. The Bohr model combines a four-transistor NAND2 spanning three gate pitches and a 32-transistor scan flip-flop (SFF) spanning nineteen pitches, weighting their densities 60:40. The sensitivity column shows how independently changing cell height and gate pitch by ±1 nm changes the result. This compares representative cell geometries; whole-die density also depends on cell mix and placement. The 18A P-core gives M0 substantially more metal cross section than the N3E vector engine. Treating each profile as a trapezoid gives 2.63 times the area per line and 1.84 times the area after normalization by routing pitch. The larger section reduces the geometric contribution to line resistance and lowers current density for a given current. Taller and wider wires also add capacitance, so circuit delay depends on the balance of resistance and capacitance. The DDR-PHY has less metal area per routing width than the 18A core fields, while remaining above N3E. [30] Area = height × (top CD + bottom CD) / 2, including liners. Area/pitch normalizes by routing width. Taper is the symmetric sidewall angle from vertical, with the largest angle belonging to the DDR-PHY. Compute tile The measurements show how ribbon dimensions and gate-stack geometry vary across the compute tile and between NMOS and PMOS to balance channel drive, gate load and the space needed for the dielectric/WFM stack across logic, SRAM and the DDR-PHY. Width mainly changes available channel perimeter; thickness also changes electrostatic control and carrier confinement. Gate-stack thickness then determines the space left for low-resistivity fill P-core and LP E-core logic Both the P-core and LP E-core use multiple nanosheet widths. Widths are measured on high-magnification XTEMs while wider-field images demonstrate additional width choices within the LP E-core. Multiple widths are expected even within an LP E-core. Timing-critical paths, buffers and cells with different fanout need different drive strengths. The lower-magnification fields show this width diversity beyond the sites quantified in the table. L2 and L3 SRAM GAA gives SRAM designers another way to balance the pull-up (PU), pass-gate (PG), and pull-down (PD) transistors. FinFET bitcells set device strength through fin count while GAA adds nanosheet width as a sizing knob. In a 6T SRAM cell, a strong pull-down relative to the pass-gate limits read disturbance, while a strong pass-gate relative to the pull-up improves writability. During a write, the pass-gate and write driver pull the node storing “1” below the inverter trip point. During a read, the pull-down holds the node storing “0” low. Bias, threshold voltage, mismatch and assist circuitry set the remaining margin. FinFET high-current cells commonly use a PU:PG:PD fin-count pattern of 1:2:2, a device-sizing ratio rather than a current ratio. Ribbon width lets Intel balance SRAM strengths without adding whole fins. The L2 cell uses its narrowest ribbons for PU and widest for PD, improving writability and read stability respectively. Intel’s disclosed HCC operates without assist; its denser HDC uses negative-bitline write assist. Pulling the selected bitline briefly below ground increases pass-gate overdrive so it can overpower the pull-up at lower supply voltage. That buys density and low voltage writability at the cost of boosting circuitry, switching energy, and additional voltage stress that must be controlled. [31], [32] Four rectangular ribbons give the perimeter = 8 × (width + thickness), before corner rounding. PG/PU is 1.49 and PD/PG is 1.16. The L3 structures closely resemble L2 in layout and cell height. Fewer L3 nanosheet widths are tabulated because fewer high-magnification images were available. DDR PHY The DDR-PHY trades density for controlled analog behavior and reliable off-chip signaling. It contains drivers, receivers, delay circuits, and calibration logic that set drive strength, sampling time, and voltage margin. Repeated four-sheet devices with similar widths fit the use of regular transistor units for matching and programmable drive. Its wider local wiring provides room for current delivery and separation of sensitive signals, while consuming more area than a dense core-logic grid. The layout serves the memory channel’s electrical requirements as well as digital logic density. [33] The SemiAnalysis STEEL teardown lab breaks down advanced datacenter and AI hardware. To learn more about our pipeline or to commission a teardown, contact sales@semianalysis.com. WE’RE HIRING: Architecture, floorplan, packaging, manufacturing, and labs experts. Opportunities from system to transistor and everywhere in between. Check out our Careers page. Intel 3 GPU devices Vector engine logic Intel 3’s XVE logic uses two-fin PMOS and NMOS devices with power rails in M0. Its cell height and M0 pitch give a seven-track geometry, two tracks more than the 18A logic. One-fin groups also appear among the two-fin devices. Intel 3 L2 SRAM The Intel 3 L2 SRAM uses the familiar HCC sizing pattern: one PU fin, two PG fins, and two PD fins. N3E GPU devices Vector engine logic The N3E XVE field contains repeated two-fin devices with seven-track cell geometry. N3E remains a FinFET process, giving Panther Lake a direct FinFET-to-RibbonFET comparison. N3E L2 SRAM The N3E L2 SRAM uses the same PU:PG:PD fin-count pattern of 1:2:2. Panther Lake-U follows Lunar Lake’s floorplan quite closely. Both pair 4 P-cores with 4 LP E-cores and NPU, media and display engines in similar locations. Lunar Lake also uses Xe2, the direct predecessor to Panther Lake’s Xe3 GPU. This makes Lunar Lake the most direct basis for our comparisons. Arrow Lake differs in core count and uses the older Xe-LPG GPU architecture, so we only use it where it offers a more direct component-level comparison. Compute tile Panther Lake compute-tile floorplans remain sparse even months after launch. Intel 18A’s backside metal and dielectric stack must be removed without damaging the underlying structures before a clean transistor-level floorplan can be imaged. Most published die shots hide or heavily process the background, but we are quite proud of the die shot we achieved and are excited to show the work we have done. We measured the areas of the key components on the compute tile and compared them with their Lunar Lake predecessors on TSMC N3B. These help us to capture changes in block area and compare the two chips across process nodes and designs. Our total tile areas exclude the scribe-line area. The compute-plus-GPU subtotal below uses the PTL-U compute tile and GT1 GPU; it excludes the I/O tile and passive base. Individual block areas use the boundaries marked on the floorplans The compute-plus-GPU row is recomputed from the displayed PTL-U and GT1 areas. Component rows use their stated per-region counts and are not an additive partition of the whole tile. The P-core area remains almost unchanged between Lunar Lake and Panther Lake, despite L2 capacity increasing from 2.5 MiB to 3 MiB. Arrow Lake uses the same Lion Cove core as Lunar Lake but also has a 3 MiB L2. Cougar Cove fits 20% more L2 into the same P-core area. The larger private cache keeps more of each core’s working set close to its execution units, reducing access to shared L3 and DRAM. Extra capacity adds storage leakage and lookup energy, so designers balance it against avoided lower-level accesses. The shared P-core L3 cache also shrank by 14.8%. [2] Cougar Cove combines a similar footprint with Intel’s reported power-efficiency improvements. RibbonFET’s tighter channel control reduces leakage, while PowerVia reduces supply droop and allows tighter voltage guardbands. [1] Darkmont’s four-core LP E-core cluster is 5.0% smaller than Skymont’s on Lunar Lake, with most of the reduction in its L2 regions. The 1 MiB region shrank by 8.4% and the 1.5 MiB region by 14.9%. The tag arrays also use one fewer visible row. Tags identify which memory addresses the data array holds, so rearranging them changes the cache’s layout and wiring without requiring less data capacity. [2] The LP E-cores share one L2. This pools capacity and avoids duplicating all the cache machinery, but the four cores contend for its banks and bandwidth. Their separate cluster also keeps light work away from the performance cluster and its L3, allowing that larger domain to sleep. [1], [2] Cache area includes more than the storage cells. Tags identify each line, decoders select rows, sense amplifiers read the small bitline signal, and wires connect to the banks. Splitting an array into smaller sections shortens wordlines and bitlines, improving access speed, but duplicates peripheral circuits. Panther Lake’s smaller cache regions therefore reflect the complete memory implementation, including how much of each region is devoted to storage. [34] Unlike Meteor Lake and Arrow Lake, Panther Lake has no separate SoC tile. The NPU, LP E-cores, memory controllers, PHYs, media and display engines now share the compute tile. This removes an active die and keeps CPU memory traffic on one die. The cost is moving PHY and I/O-related circuitry onto 18A: drivers, receivers and analog circuits must still meet external voltage, loading and signal-integrity requirements, so their area does not shrink like dense digital logic. [1], [2] The biggest shrink comes from the NPU, which occupies 36.9% less area. NPU 5 consolidates the same total INT8 MAC count into half as many neural compute engines. Each of the three NCEs has a larger MAC array to make the complete NCE envelope 22.6% larger than an NPU 4 engine. Consolidation also halves the number of scratchpads and SHAVE DSPs, from 12 to 6. The MAC array handles matrix multiplication and convolution, while SHAVE executes vector and custom operations that fit the array poorly. [1], [2], [35] The paired floorplans identify each NCE envelope and its scratchpad, MAC, and SHAVE regions. Each measured MAC polygon is counted once per NCE in the area accounting below. The scratchpads store weights, activations, and intermediate results near the MAC arrays, allowing repeated use without fetching them again from DRAM. Halving their number delivers the largest measured area saving but leaves less local storage for the same total MAC count. Layers that no longer fit locally require smaller working tiles or more transfers of intermediate data. The benefit depends on keeping the enlarged arrays busy while managing that tighter storage budget. [36] NPU 5 also adds native FP8. Using half the operand width of FP16 reduces storage and transfer demand, helping workloads fit the smaller local memory budget. Lower precision and format-dependent range make scaling and model validation part of deployment. Hardware activation functions further reduce work that would otherwise occupy the programmable DSPs. [1], [2] Microsoft requires an NPU to deliver at least 40 TOPS for Copilot+ PCs. Both Lunar Lake and Panther Lake meet this threshold, but Panther Lake uses significantly less silicon. GPU tiles Panther Lake is Intel’s first product with Xe3, its latest GPU architecture. It offers two different GPU tiles: a smaller GT1 tile with 4 Xe3 cores on Intel 3 and a larger GT2 tile with 12 Xe3 cores on TSMC N3E. Panther Lake allows us to compare the same GPU architecture across both Intel 3 and TSMC N3E. Wildcat Lake adds a third Xe3 implementation on Intel 18A. A future newsletter will detail Xe3 and its implementation differences across all three process nodes. GT2 scales Xe3 to a different physical layout, with render slices arranged vertically instead of GT1’s horizontal arrangement. Slice placement sets the distances to shared cache banks and the D2D interface. Those wires consume area and add delay, so scaling the number of Xe cores also requires a new balance of cache placement, routing and timing. [1] What’s immediately obvious is that the GT2 tile on TSMC N3E has much smaller Xe cores than GT1. These block areas include logic, caches, and routing. An Xe core on the GT1 tile is ~69% larger than one on Lunar Lake, and ~55% larger than one on GT2. Intel 3 therefore uses substantially more area per Xe core. The block-area gap exceeds the measured logic and SRAM density gaps, bringing routing, timing targets, cell mix, and floorplan allocation into the comparison. The measured vector/matrix engine region is almost unchanged between Lunar Lake and Panther Lake’s GT2 tile. Xe3 retains eight 512-bit vector engines and eight 2048-bit XMX engines per core. Its gains also come from feeding those engines more effectively: more resident threads hide stalls, and variable register allocation lets shaders trade registers per thread against the number of threads kept active. [1] The shared L1/SLM capacity increased by 33% from 192 KiB to 256 KiB, while its area increased only 5%, raising effective density by 27%. L1 retains reused cache lines, while software-managed SLM lets a thread group share data locally. Both reduce traffic to more distant memory. Allocating more SLM per group can also limit how many groups reside on a core at once. [1], [37] The GT1 tile carries 4 MiB of L2 against 16 MiB on the GT2 tile. GT1 divides its L2 cache into four 1 MiB banks, while GT2 uses eight 2 MiB banks. Each bank contains 128 macros, but each N3E macro stores 16 KiB, twice the Intel 3 macro’s 8 KiB capacity. The N3E macro is only 54% larger while holding twice as many bits, giving it 30% higher density: ~23.7 Mbit/mm² versus 18.3 Mbit/mm². Including bank-level circuitry, the gap widens to ~16.9 Mbit/mm² on GT2 versus ~10.4 Mbit/mm² on GT1. GT2 gains density with its macros storing more bits per unit area, and those macros occupy more of each cache bank. Larger macros spread decoder and sense-amplifier overhead across more storage, while a more compact bank layout reduces the share spent on control and routing. The compromise is longer wordlines and bitlines that carry more capacitance. [34] I/O tile Panther Lake uses two I/O tile variants, both fabricated on TSMC N6. The smaller one provides 4 PCIe 5.0 and 8 PCIe 4.0 lanes and serves lower-tier systems as well as those without a discrete GPU, while the larger one adds 8 PCIe 5.0 lanes, bringing the total to 20 lanes, for discrete-GPU connectivity. Panther Lake SKUs with the larger 10- or 12-Xe GPUs use the smaller I/O tile. [38] The smaller I/O tile adds a PCIe 4.0 block and a Thunderbolt block to Lunar Lake’s I/O layout, providing four additional PCIe 4.0 lanes and another Thunderbolt 4 port. Its repeated N6 blocks retain nearly identical areas and layouts. Reusing these proven PHYs and controllers avoids porting and requalifying external interfaces on 18A, where faster digital logic offers less benefit to circuits constrained by the off-chip link. [38] SemiAnalysis’s teardown lab (STEEL) dives deep into the world’s advanced datacenter and AI hardware. To learn more about our pipeline or to commission a teardown, contact sales@semianalysis.com. We’re hiring technical experts from system to transistor and everywhere in between. Check out our Careers page. Panther Lake offers scalability and modularity through its disaggregated packaging that partition compute, GPU, and I/O silicon into separate tiles allowing for a suite of tile configurations. This partitioning makes the package part of Intel’s node economics as it determines how much leading-edge wafer area each product consumes, which functions can remain on other processes, and how much configuration freedom Intel can offer from a shared set of tiles. Furthermore, fabricating the compute and GPU tiles separately confines the new 18A process to the compute tile and allows graphics and I/O to use other, more established, and more cost-effective processes. For Panther Lake, the GPU and I/O tiles are assembled alongside the compute tile on a passive silicon base using Foveros-S. Intel’s current technology brief lists a nominal 36 µm pitch for Foveros-S. Through-silicon vias (TSVs) in the base connect the fine wiring above to the larger package connections below. The functional tiles sit side by side on that passive base in a 2.5D configuration. [39] Our cross-section through the compute and GPU tiles shows the package’s wiring hierarchy. Microbumps connect each active tile to the passive silicon base; its fine redistribution layer (RDL) carries the short, dense tile-to-tile links. TSVs carry connections through the base to the package substrate, which fans them out to the much coarser motherboard solder joints. The base supplies interconnect, while computation remains in the active tiles above it. [39] At the compute-tile edge, the higher-magnification inset shows a local microbump spacing of approximately 25.24 µm and a feature width of 12.33 µm. These local spacings are finer than Intel’s nominal Foveros-S value. The X-ray fields further confirm tighter neighboring bumps, consistent across every die-to-die area found on each tile. Additional X-ray analysis is offered after the paywall. Putting the memory controller beside the CPU removes the D2D transfer that CPU memory requests required in Meteor Lake and Arrow Lake. This avoids the extra transmitter, receiver, and link traversal, saving interface energy and latency. Panther Lake’s separate GPU still crosses a D2D link to reach DRAM, so its larger local caches also help contain package traffic. [1], [40] Smaller dies are less likely to contain a random fatal defect, and screening them before assembly prevents one bad tile from consuming a complete package of good silicon. Reuse also spreads design and qualification work across more products. Against those gains, Intel pays for the passive base, D2D circuits, extra bonding and test steps, and losses during assembly. Cost per working product across the portfolio captures the combined effect of wafer yield, reuse, test, and assembly. [29] Wildcat Lake packaging Intel launched Core Series 3, formerly Wildcat Lake, on 16 April 2026 for value mobile and edge systems. Wildcat Lake keeps 18A but removes the passive base and combines more functions on one die to simplify the package. The two products therefore reveal two distinct ways to commercialize the same leading-edge process. [41] Wildcat Lake’s 18A die combines up to two Cougar Cove P-cores, four Darkmont LP E-cores, two Xe3 cores and a smaller NPU. A separate platform-controller die supplies I/O, connected through UCIe, Intel’s first processor implementation of the standard. Consolidating graphics remove a tile boundary and the passive base, reducing assembly complexity for a modest-bandwidth value product. It also ties CPU and graphics scaling to the same die, giving up Panther Lake’s ability to swap in a much larger GPU. [42], [43] In July 2021, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger set out an ambitious process roadmap aimed at regaining performance leadership by 2025, later described as five nodes in four years. Five years and one CEO later, Intel’s comeback story is not as unambiguously positive as Pat may have hoped. [44], [45] Intel once set the pace for process technology, bringing high-k metal gate technology and FinFETs into volume production years ahead of the rest of the industry. Its 22 nm FinFET process reached consumers with Ivy Bridge in 2012. [46] Intel’s integrated device manufacturing (IDM) model allowed its architects and process engineers to co-optimize products and processes. Starting with Sandy Bridge, Intel dominated x86, while AMD struggled with Bulldozer. That lead faltered at 14 nm and broke at 10 nm. Intel targeted a massive 2.7× density increase, but the node arrived years late and required several revisions before it could support Intel’s full lineup. This delay forced Intel to stretch 14 nm across six generations, while TSMC moved ahead in process technology and AMD recovered in x86. By 2019, Intel was still shipping 14 nm across most of its product stack, with its 10 nm client ramp focused on Ice Lake mobile processors. Meanwhile, TSMC was shipping N7 and N7+, and AMD’s Zen 2 compute chiplets used N7 to raise core counts and improve efficiency. Intel’s process failures were central to its decline, but unsound business decisions furthered their downward slide. Product delays compounded product mistakes, pushing client, server, and FPGA roadmaps off schedule. Several attempts to enter AI (Nervana and Gaudi) and networking (Tofino) also failed to establish lasting businesses. Intel’s recovery has focused on consumer CPUs and advanced packaging. Tiger Lake, Alder Lake, Lunar Lake and now Panther Lake have restored Intel’s consumer roadmap. On the process side, Intel 4 shipped with Meteor Lake, Intel 3 with Granite Rapids and Sierra Forest, and Intel 18A with Panther Lake. Intel has also made advanced packaging part of its foundry offering. However, Intel is still playing catch-up in servers. Several Xeon generations arrived years late and trailed contemporary AMD and Arm server CPUs in performance, efficiency, and core count. The process roadmap is back, but Intel does not hold the same process-technology leadership position it held prior to 10 nm. The introduction of gate-all-around nanosheets and backside power delivery are two of the biggest changes to transistor integration in a decade. Intel took on both changes at once: 18A paired its first RibbonFET with PowerVia in Panther Lake. Panther Lake is a substantial manufacturing milestone. Our cross-sections show how RibbonFET and PowerVia reshape local contacts and wiring, while the floorplans show where architectural consolidation and process choices save area. A sustained competitive lead depends on product performance, cost, yield, and the next implementation. The SemiAnalysis STEEL teardown lab breaks down advanced datacenter and AI hardware. To learn more about our pipeline or to commission a teardown, contact sales@semianalysis.com. WE’RE HIRING: Architecture, floorplan, packaging, manufacturing, and labs experts. Opportunities from system to transistor and everywhere in between. Check out our Careers page.. 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Trump Promised the Truth About UFOs. These Scientists Are Waiting.

The president named a science council to review the government’s data. What's taking so long?

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Bills vs. Chargers: Final injury reports for both teams

Here are the final injury reports for both the Bills and Chargers in Week 3.

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Inside the alleged plot to attack Trump’s birthday UFC fight

Prosecutors say the plan was coordinated between men in at least six states almost entirely online, and took shape in mere weeks ahead of the June 14 event at the White House.

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How a baby business survived China and Canada tariffs

Garett Senez's company Quark Baby is based in Canada and manufactured in China. The tariffs required him to switch up his supply chain to survive.

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Till vs. Romero Start Time, Full Fight Card Details!

Former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) standouts Darren Till and Yoel Romero will face off against one another later TODAY (Sat., Sept. 26, 2026) in the main event of BKFC 94 from inside Manchester Arena, Manchester, England live on DAZN. It’s a bout between two former UFC castoffs who are looking to remain relevant in what […]

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Bad news for France and all Real Madrid fans. Kylian Mbappé was injured in tonight’s Nations League match between Turkey and the French side. The French star, who had just put his side ahead in the...

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MotoGP Makes More Leadership Changes

Boardroom draws from F1, the NFL, UFC and the Premier League Liberty Media continues to reshape MotoGP’s front office, appointing new executives with backgrounds from a diverse range of sports and entertainment properties such as Formula 1, the NFL, the Premier League, and UFC. The series announced four senior appointments this week, coming after Carlos Ezpeleta stepped up to Deputy CEO in August, and Liberty’s own CEO Derek Chang was appointed President of the MotoGP Group earlier this month. [

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Former Sabres First-Round Pick Lands Another Opportunity

Alex Nylander flamed out after just 19 games with the Buffalo Sabres. He has since bounced around the NHL, failing to establish himself as a full-time player at hockey’s highest level. Still, that hasn’t stopped the Calgary Flames from adding Nylander to a one-year, two-way contract off of his PTO, which they made official on […] The post Former Sabres First-Round Pick Lands Another Opportunity appeared first on HEAVY.

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How to spot AI science slop

AI-generated science content is super prone to factual errors. Here's how to spot it… Lots of typos and grammatical errors used to signal that something wasn’t checked carefully. Now, it’s AI slop…

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October Business Collective with Bluffton Food Pantry

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Jon Gruden Questions Steelers’ Offensive Line Chaos Amid Struggles: ‘Why?’

Jon Gruden has seen plenty of offensive lines during his coaching career; however, the Pittsburgh Steelers’ current setup has left him genuinely puzzled. The former head coach watched the unit shuffle players between positions through the offseason and into the regular season, and now the results are becoming harder to ignore. The Steelers entered the […] The post Jon Gruden Questions Steelers’ Offensive Line Chaos Amid Struggles: ‘Why?’ appeared first on Gridiron Heroics.

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Proposed business park south of Durango could noticeably increase county’s share of manufacturing jobs

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Bill introduced to support newborn health screenings

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Congressman Nick Langworthy was joined by Hall of Fame Bills quarterback Jim Kelly on Thursday to announce the introduction of a bipartisan bill that would dedicate fed…

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Wisconsin business to layoff 40+ employees days before Christmas

Sunlite Plastics in Germantown will lay off 41 employees on Dec. 7 due to a drastic reduction in manufacturing orders.

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Game on for Science Stadium at Buffalo Museum of Science

The Buffalo Museum of Science has opened its $3 million Science Stadium interactive exhibit. Developed in partnership with the Buffalo Bills, Buffalo Sabres, and Buffalo Bandits, the permanent exhibit brings

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Taylor Swift's new 'Encore' songs, ranked from worst to best

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Taylor Swift's new 'Encore' songs, ranked from worst to best

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Cleveland Orchestra musicians strike as wage dispute festers

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Quick hitters: O-line health, safety depth and Dan Campbell’s first days in Detroit with Glenn

Allen Park — Detroit Lions coach Dan Campbell and quarterbacks coach Mark Brunell met with the media on Friday. Here are the noteworthy items from those conversations. Healthier up front, banged up in the back It’s good news, bad news on the injury front. First, the offensive line is going to be far closer to full strength with starters Blake Miller (knee) and Christian Mahogany (hip) on track to return to the lineup. That provides stability the offense lacked against Buffalo, particularly at right tackle, where backup Larry Borom allowed 11 quarterback pressures and committed a trio of penalties. Subscribe However, with that same unit, veteran Ben Bartch (foot) is likely to miss Sunday’s matchup with the Jets. The left guard competition that’s been ongoing since May has effectively been whichever option is healthy that week. In the back end, safety Thomas Harper (ankle) is also unlikely to be available on Sunday. That leaves the team precariously thin at the position following Avonte Maddox going on injured reserve this week. Christian Izien is expected to get the start alongside Chuck Clark. “Izzy's been working a lot back there and had a full week,” Campbell said. “And he's gotten a ton of work this week, a ton of reps, full-speed reps. ‘This is what you're going to do, this is the calls’ and just dousing him with full-speed reps and he's done a good job this week.” Safety depth is the bigger concern. The team is expected to count on some combination of Jalen Mills, who signed to the practice squad on Monday, Bishop Fitzgerald, the undrafted rookie poached off the Steelers’ practice squad on Tuesday, and rookie cornerback Keith Abney, who doesn’t have experience at safety. “I'll say this about Abney, man, for a rookie, he's a pretty dang smart, conscientious, aware football player that's got a ton of room to really take off,” Campbell said. “…He's young. He's another one, he just needs reps and reps. But, if we need it, that'll be a guy who may have to go in for us.” You can check here for the full injury report, with game designations, later this afternoon. Reflecting on the past Responding to comments made by Jets coach Aaron Glenn this week, Campbell reflected on his earliest days with the Lions, before the coaching staff had been fleshed out and it was just he and Glenn at the facility working through what they wanted things to look like. “It was just he and I in the lab,” Campbell said. The coach said the two would fill the whiteboard that remains in current coordinator Kelvin Sheppard’s office top to bottom with notes about philosophy, coaching style, team identity and the type of players they wanted to target. “He looks different than me,” Campbell said. “I'm taller, I'm whatever. He's quicker. All these different things, man, but we're really the same. I mean we're so much the same. And he's the defensive version, I'm the offensive version. He was my right hand man. …It was fun, man. Those were good days.” Campbell said it was one of the best and worst days of his life when the Jets hired Glenn to be their coach. “AG means the world to me,” Campbell said. “He's one of my dearest friends because I know what he's made of. “…It's because you know you're losing a little piece of you. That's what he meant to me and to us. So, that's hard.” Traits under center A couple of weeks back, Sheppard noted that Brunell had identified Saints quarterback Tyler Shough as the best prospect at the position ahead of the 2025 draft. On Friday, Brunell confirmed his evaluation and explained what he looks for when studying a young quarterback. Here’s the full answer: “Young quarterbacks, you have to look at everything, you know? I look at guys coming out of college just like I look at any free agents that we might be looking at, or guys that we might add to our roster. Do they take care of the ball? Are they on time? How is their decision-making? How are their feet? “It's tough because you look at a college player, you don't understand what they're trying to do offensively, what their reads are, but you can identify when a guy is accurate, obviously, and when the ball's getting there on time. If there are a lot of interceptions, it raises a red flag. And I think with a lot of the spread offenses of what you're seeing, when you see a young player and they're running some pro concepts and he's having to make protection calls, and he's getting the right play out of the run game, and when there's a lot on his plate and he's executing it very well, and he's managing all of that, that really jumps out at you. It’s really hard to find. “That's one thing we saw with Luke Altmeyer. He had a lot of experience. We call it, ‘Hey, he's playing quarterback.’ And what does that mean? It's not just completing passes. It's getting guys lined up, getting the right play, getting the protection call right, just fixing some problems, being able to progress (through reads). And there's still some young guys out there that can do that at a high level, which is good to see.” Regarding Altmyer, who competed for the team’s backup job through the offseason and currently resides on the practice squad, Brunell acknowledged physical development slows once the season starts, because there aren’t reps to go around. However, there’s still extensive mental development that’s ongoing. “The key for him is approach the game as if you're the starter, mentally,” Brunell said. “And that's really all you can do. Approach the game as if you're the starter and be good in the (class)room. You come in alongside Jared (Goff), and you come in alongside Josh (Dobbs) and (do) whatever they need. And if you get an opportunity to talk to Luke, he'll tell you he does have a lot of responsibilities besides just getting donuts for us on Saturday. “For him, it's mentally staying focused, and even though there's really no chance this Sunday of him playing, he has to approach it as if he's taking the first snap and playing the whole game. So what's our game plan? What are our checks? What are we anticipating? And then during the game, we keep him involved as far as looking at coverages and pressures. And so, really, for him, it's just a mental game. And for now, that's all we can do.” Reason for more zone The Lions have significantly increased their usage of zone coverage on defense this season. I asked Campbell if that was a reaction to their personnel or driven by the focus to generate more turnovers, given it can be easier to produce interceptions when you can keep eyes on the quarterback while playing zone. “I think it was a little bit of both,” Campbell said. “We just felt like this would suit us a little bit better up to this point, and then be disruptive and get takeaways, which worked well Week 1. We had two (opportunities) last week against Buffalo we weren’t able to get, but they’re there.” I followed up by asking how much the combination of heavy blitzing with the back end playing zone has contributed to some of the early-season coverage woes, since adding extra players to the pass rush means leaving the coverage short-staffed. “I mean, it’s challenging, and that’s why a lot of the things we’ve done in zone, for the most part, have been to reduce that stress level back there,” Campbell said. “But that also requires the front getting there. And if you don’t get there, we already kind of talked about that, but there (has to be) a trust there.” The alternative, Campbell explained is sending four and it taking longer for the rush to get home, which can create different problems for a defense. “You can bleed yards,” Campbell said about the strategy. “It gets a little longer and it’s dink-and-dunk and run after catch. …So, we do what we think is right by what we feel like our personnel (does well). But also the game plan, who you’re going in to play, the matchups, their offense. “We’re not stuck on one way.” Detroit Football Network is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Subscribe

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Non-Conference Preview: UAPB

Our friends from Arkansas Pine Bluff return after a brief hiatus from games at Mizzou Arena.

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Sep 25 • 1:00 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Apple Stock Gains as Macs Attack the Token Meter

Local inference replaces recurring cloud charges with hardware whose utilization determines the savings.

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Sep 25 • 12:59 PM EDT • Technology • finance.yahoo.com
Essentia Health-Fargo adds new electrophysiology procedural suite

Essentia Health-Fargo has added a new electrophysiology (EP) procedural suite, a $2 million project that repurposed a general operating room.

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ROUNDTABLE: Northwestern at No. 5 Indiana predictions

INU’s pulse of NUFB’s biggest test of the young season.

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Sep 25 • 12:34 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Deion Sanders addresses Colorado player behavior following first loss

Ringo Chiu/Shutterstock.com Deion Sanders addresses Colorado player behavior Deion Sanders addressed Colorado players after the Buffaloes lost 41–7 at Northwestern on September 19, 2026. The defeat ended Colorado’s 2–0 start and dropped the team to 2–1 ahead of Big 12 play. Sanders said he confronted players he saw laughing after the 34-point loss. His criticism…

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WCES targets India’s semiconductor market with specialty gas business

Indian renewable energy firm Waaree Clean Energy Solutions (WCES) will enter the domestic specialty gases market to target semiconductor manufacturing amid the Indian government’s $13.2bn Semiconductor Mission 2.0 programme.

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Alex DeBrincat’s Fight Earns Strong Response From Todd McLellan

Todd McLellan called Alex DeBrincat’s fight against Buffalo a sign of leadership as Detroit pushes for a tougher team identity.

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Sep 25 • 9:50 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Loneliness, Isolation Can Strip Away Years Of Healthy Life, Large Study Finds

By Dennis Thompson HealthDay ReporterFRIDAY, Sept. 25, 2026 (HealthDay News) — Loneliness and social isolation can cost a person up to six years of healthy life, a new study says. Physical and mental health suffer when people feel lonely and become isolated, even if they largely stick to healthy ...

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NFL gameday: Brock Purdy 'in prime' for San Francisco 49ers, Patrick Mahomes chases Tom Brady record and Dexter Lawrence leads Cincinnati Bengals Super Bowl charge

Watch the Los Angeles Chargers against the Buffalo Bills exclusively live on Sky Sports from 5.30pm on Sunday, before the Dallas Cowboys face the Baltimore Ravens in the first NFL game to be played at the Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from 9.25pm

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US core capital goods orders surge in August

New orders for key U.S.-manufactured capital goods increased more than expected in ​August and data for the prior month ‌was revised sharply higher, pointing to another quarter of robust growth in business spending on equipment ​amid an artificial intelligence infrastructure buildout.

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Brady unsatisfied with Bills' 2-0 start as Buffalo prepares to host Chargers

The Bills have hardly been perfect and their new-look defense has issues to sort after allowing 31 points and 24-plus first downs in each of its first two outings.

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Scott Jennings Actually Said 1 Trump Move 'Wasn't' Smart
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Men's Health Event offers free screenings and tests Saturday, Sept. 26

Do you need some screenings? Guys, do you need to get some stuff checked? Tomorrow the Wayne State University Field House is just the place.

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Hung parliament: who could form a coalition after the next general election?

A ‘mega poll’ from YouGov suggests parties could be scrambling to forge an alliance

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Girls flag football goes varsity in Kansas

Nearly 50 Kansas high schools are competing for the state's first girls flag football title this fall.

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Goss report: Tariffs, inflation put pressure on Iowa manufacturers

The Creighton University Mid-America Business Conditions Index, which measures economic activity across nine states, moved above growth neutral for the seventh consecutive month in August, pointing to solid economic growth in regional manufacturing. The Creighton Economic Forecasting Group conducts the survey of supply managers to produce leading economic indicators of the Mid-America economy. The Business…

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Arzana raises $4.3M to automate factory paperwork

Growing up around manufacturing in Okoboji, William Alexander wondered if there were ways to make administrative tasks more efficient to give manufacturers more time to focus on their specialties. After graduating from Stanford University, Alexander teamed up with classmate Marshall Kools to develop Arzana, which builds custom artificial intelligence models around client workflows and data,…

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America’s newest soccer star, plus a bad night for Green Bay

The Pulse Newsletter 📣 | This is The Athletic’s daily sports newsletter. Sign up here to receive The Pulse directly in your inbox. Good morning! Don’t get fined today. Coming up: 😮 A Falcons blowout win? ✅ The latest MLB playoff clinches 👋 Say hello to Cavan Sullivan Geoff Stellfox / Getty Images It’s a busy day, so this will be short. Important stuff from last night: The Falcons routed the Packers on the road, 35-14, in one of the more surprising results of the early NFL season. A lesson learned: Having a competent quarterback to go with Atlanta’s...

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Surprising Short-Notice Welterweight Bout Added to UFC 332

A surprising short-notice welterweight bout has been added to UFC 332, which takes place next Saturday night.As first reported by MMAMania.com, welterweight prospect Jacobe Smith will return to the Octagon to face UFC newcomer Bruce Whitehead in a surprising booking that has MMA fans scratching their heads.Heavy’s Marcel Dorff further confirmed that Smith vs. Whitehead […] The post Surprising Short-Notice Welterweight Bout Added to UFC 332 appeared first on HEAVY.

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Chris Weidman Explains How Josh Hokit Can Beat Ciryl Gane

UFC Hall of Famer Chris Weidman explained how Josh Hokit can defeat UFC heavyweight champion Ciryl Gane at UFC 334.With less than one year of UFC experience, Hokit will be fighting Gane for the undisputed UFC heavyweight title at UFC 334, which goes down on November 14 at Madison Square Garden in New York City, […] The post Chris Weidman Explains How Josh Hokit Can Beat Ciryl Gane appeared first on HEAVY.

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Gibraltar Business Capital Provides Credit Facility to Support RS2 Healthcare Partners’ Investment in KMM Group

Gibraltar Business Capital (GBC) closed an asset-based revolving credit facility for KMM Group, a vertically integrated precision contract manufacturer. The

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Red Wings Rubbing Opponents the Wrong Way

The Red Wings opened up their preseason home schedule with a bang, beating out the Buffalo Sabres 2-3 with an […]

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Alex DeBrincat Fights, Then Wins It in Overtime

Alex DeBrincat fought Trevor Kuntar, then won it in overtime as Detroit beat Buffalo 3-2. #RedWings

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Alex DeBrincat, Moritz Seider Get in Double Fight vs. Sabres

Alex DeBrincat and Moritz Seider dropped the gloves in a wild double fight during Detroit’s preseason game against Buffalo.

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Letter: Ethics of science cannot be separated from who funds it

From Vincent Straub, Interdisciplinary researcher, University of Oxford Nuffield Department of Population Health, Oxford, UK

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Florida Men’s Basketball Opens Practice with Unfinished Business

Gator Boys are back – almost. Men’s basketball officially kicks off its season in November, but the SEC regular-season champions started practice Monday. After a disappointing end in Florida’s pursuit of back-to-back national titles last season, coach Todd Golden and the team are coming into the season with a mindset to finish the job. “You […]

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Local business celebrates 30 years of bringing Mexican Western wear to north Georgia

Boots may be her business, but selling her culture is her passion.

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‘It’s been transformational’ | Ribbon cut for Science Stadium, celebrating partnership between Bills, Sabres, Bandits and Buffalo Museum of Science

Science Stadium, the new Buffalo Museum of Science (BMS) exhibit created in partnership with the Buffalo Bills, Buffalo Sabres, and Buffalo Bandits, was celebrated with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Thursday – in a very Buffalonian way.

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Buffalo Museum of Science unveils new STEAM activities for WNY sports fans

Buffalo Museum of Science unveils new STEAM activities for WNY sports fans

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Downtown Round Rock business rebrands as Alcove, opens expansion

The bar and restaurant formerly known as Sociedad rebranded to its original name of Alcove, owner Michelle Ly confirmed in September.

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Greensboro business owners react to deadly shooting on West Market Street, 2 taken out of business in handcuffs

GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) — Two people were put in handcuffs and taken out of a club in Greensboro on Thursday evening following a deadly shooting on Sunday. The identities of the people taken out in…

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Sep 24 • 6:05 PM EDT • Business • myfox8.com
Buffalo Museum of Science opens $3M Science Stadium exhibit with Bills, Sabres and Bandits

The Buffalo Museum of Science is opening a new $3 million exhibit that combines STEM education with the world of professional sports. The exhibit is in partnership with the Bills, Sabres and Bandits.

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Sep 24 • 5:51 PM EDT • Science • wkbw.com
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Don’t Be Fooled: GOP Scuffle Over NIH Grants Doesn’t Mean Science Has Prevailed

Trump has backed down for now in his new bid to control research grants, but his tune could change after the midterms.

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Sep 24 • 5:05 PM EDT • Science • truthout.org
‘It’s been transformational’ | Buffalo Museum of Science cuts ribbon on Science Stadium

New exhibit, a collaboration with Sabres, Bills, Bandits, celebrates Buffalo sports and explores career options in the field.

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Sep 24 • 4:23 PM EDT • Science • nhl.com
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Sabres defenseman Mattias Samuelsson is listed as week to week

Buffalo could be down another blue liner with Olen Zellweger placed in the concussion protocol

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Sep 24 • 3:52 PM EDT • Sports • spectrumlocalnews.com
Housing geared toward low-income families opens in Detroit

A group of developers and city officials on Thursday celebrated the opening of Preston Townhomes, a $14 million affordable housing project in the Islandview neighborhood.

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Sep 24 • 3:52 PM EDT • Business • crainsdetroit.com
Intense Media Pressure an Emerging Challenge in CHO Business

Growing culture media requirements are becoming a major logistical and storage challenge for biopharmaceutical manufacturers.

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Sep 24 • 3:47 PM EDT • Business • genengnews.com
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Interactive sports exhibit set to open at Buffalo Museum of Science

The new $3 million exhibit at the Buffalo Museum of Science includes a new sports simulator, an anchor desk that allows visitors to record their own highlight reel as a broadcaster, a sports medicine lab, and a mascot design studio.

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Sep 24 • 3:28 PM EDT • Science • btpm.org
Edinburg Woman Arrested in Connection with Fatal McAllen Overdose

The McAllen Police Department has Arrested Vanessa Denise Rico, 48 years old, of Edinburg, Texas, on two (2) counts of Manufacture or Delivery of a Controlled Substance following an investigation into the death of a 39-year old McAllen man.

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Sep 24 • 2:46 PM EDT • Business • texasborderbusiness.com
From Congress to County Commissioner: Kentucky State Council Urges Multilevel Political Power

A packed room of IAM delegates attended the fall session of the Kentucky State Council in Calvert City, Ky. Local political candidates, who are running for positions like local commissioner to U.S. Congress, courted coveted labor votes in the IAM. The keynote speaker was retired IAM International President Tom Buffenbarger who talked about the importance

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Sep 24 • 2:18 PM EDT • Politics • goiam.org
Google Photos Getting 5 Fun Feature Upgrades

Today, Google Photos announced that it is rolling out 5 upgrades to your experience, giving you power over photos with Gemini Spark, access to your digital closet, new Moods to style things with, new Remix templates, and an upgraded markup tool. Some of this new stuff you’ve heard of before, but this is Google acknowledging...

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Sep 24 • 1:00 PM EDT • Technology • droid-life.com
UFC Champion Justin Gaethje Provides Latest Health Update

UFC lightweight champion Justin Gaethje provided his latest health update as fans eagerly anticipate seeing him fight again.Gaethje’s last fight came in June when he defeated Ilia Topuria via fourth-round TKO due to corner stoppage to become the undisputed UFC lightweight champion of the world.However, he has not fought since then and isn’t even sure […] The post UFC Champion Justin Gaethje Provides Latest Health Update appeared first on HEAVY.

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Sep 24 • 11:10 AM EDT • Health • sports.yahoo.com
UFC Champion Justin Gaethje Provides Latest Health Update

UFC lightweight champion Justin Gaethje provided his latest health update as fans eagerly anticipate seeing him fight again.Gaethje’s last fight came in June when he defeated Ilia Topuria via fourth-round TKO due to corner stoppage to become the undisputed UFC lightweight champion of the world.However, he has not fought since then and isn’t even sure […] The post UFC Champion Justin Gaethje Provides Latest Health Update appeared first on HEAVY.

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Sep 24 • 11:10 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Meta's New AI Device Is This Tamagotchi-Like Muse Charm Keychain

Meta says the keychain will be ready to ship by the holiday season, like some kind of bizarre AI stocking stuffer.

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Sep 24 • 11:06 AM EDT • Technology • cnet.com