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GlobalFoundries Allocates $ 1.4 Billion to Expand Production
This year, GlobalFoundries, a semiconductor contract manufacturer, is investing $ 1.4 billion to expand production. This was announced by a source citing a statement by the company’s executive director.
According to him, this amount will be evenly distributed between factories in the United States, Singapore and Germany. GlobalFoundries’ expansion is driven by the current shortage of microcircuits, which has arisen as a result of rapid growth in demand.
Investments will increase the volume of production at the rates from 12 to 90 nm. It is predicted that this year the volume of production will be increased by 13%, and in 2022 – by another 20%. About a third of the investment will come from customers looking to secure a stable source of supply.
If demand continues to grow, GlobalFoundries could build a new plant next to its existing plant in New York State. The agreement on the purchase of the respective land plot was concluded last year.
The American company, owned by Mubadala, the United Arab Emirates’ sovereign investment fund, may also postpone its initial public offering at the end of this year or the first half of next year. It was previously planned to be held in late 2022 or early 2023.
GlobalFoundries is one of the three largest manufacturers of semiconductor products, and if we consider exclusively contract manufacturing, then it is second only to TSMC.
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20,000 mAh for $22. New Xiaomi external battery introduced

Xiaomi has released a new power bank that offers impressive capacity at a modest price.
The novelty costs only $ 22, but it has a capacity of 20,000 mAh. There are also three USB ports for charging other devices. True, two of them are USB-A, and only one is USB-C, capable of delivering 22.5 watts of power.
To charge the battery itself, you can use both USB-C and micro-USB present here. Separately, it is worth highlighting the presence of a low-current charging function, which is suitable when connecting smart watches, headsets and other similar devices.
Components
Some motherboards will turn the Core i9-13900K into a power consumption monster. The power limit will increase to 350W

Intel can make the Core i9-13900K even more attractive with a new auto-overclocking mode.
The source reports that some motherboards based on 700-series chipsets will allow you to activate an increased power limit. In this case, we are talking about a value of 350 watts. For comparison, Alder Lake has a maximum of 241 watts.
The values of PL1 and PL2 for the new CPUs will hardly change and will amount to 125 and 253 W, respectively. But there will also be an opportunity to remove the limit, thanks to which the Core i9-13900K will be able to consume up to 350 watts. In this case, of course, the motherboard will need a powerful power supply subsystem, and the processor will need a productive CO.
CPU performance in this mode can increase by 15%, although this will depend on the tasks. Whether the Core i9-13900KS, which was previously assigned a frequency of up to 6 GHz, will be released under such conditions is now unclear.
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In 10 years, there will be about 70,000 satellites in Earth orbit.

About 70,000 spacecraft could be in Earth orbit by 2032. Sergey Boev, chief designer of the missile attack warning system, general director of Vympel IAC, spoke about this within the framework of the Army-2022 forum.
“The population density of space objects is increasing, which creates a significant threat of collisions. Now the United States, the EU countries, China and India are announcing the creation of their own megagroups of hundreds and even thousands of devices. According to our forecasts, within 10 years, the constellation of satellites in low Earth orbit can increase to 70,000 operating spacecraft“, – he said.
Boev noted that such a number of functioning satellites will be accompanied by an abundance of space debris, which will greatly complicate the situation.
“All this needs to be controlled. It is necessary to improve the capabilities of the domestic space control system, increase the domestic space constellation, create small-sized spacecraft and space control tools, and need the ability to exchange information with other systems“, – said Sergey Boev.
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