Daily Tech News 30 June 2026

• South Korea is planning to invest $520 billion to expand chip production at Samsung and SK Hynix. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Well, sort of. Only about $20 billion of that is direct South Korean public spending, with the remainder coming from regional governments and private investment.
  
  The government will also help fast-track approvals to bring construction plans forward by as much as twelve years.
  
  
  
• Meanwhile the Big Three - Micron, Samsung, and SK Hynix - have been hit with a private antitrust lawsuit by litigants in California. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  The suit seems to be focused on decreased production of DDR4 and DDR3, which is legal, but alleges they colluded to do so, which may not be.

• IMEC has laid out its roadmap towards a 0.3nm process in 2038. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  The article notes that this is marketing nonsense - well, the part you can read doesn't, but it's there in the details that you can't read - with actual feature sizes in the 10-20nm range. Since a single silicon atom has a diameter of 0.2nm, you can rest assured they're not building circuits that size.
  
  The 0.3nm instead refers to the effective density thanks to increased use of 3D production to stack transistors vertically.
  
  
  
• The Steam Cube hasn't even started shipping and the first clones are here. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Meta PC's Steamroller is a micro ATX system with a Ryzen 9600X and a Radeon 7600 - both a little faster than the components in the Steam Machine - 16GB of DDR5 RAM, 8GB of VRAM, and a 1TB SSD, for $1299.
  
  It ships with SteamOS, so no Windows tax.
  
  
  
• Everything new is old again: Nvidia's RTX 3060 has returned from the dead. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  It was a pretty decent card, and its 12GB of VRAM gives it a boost over current 8GB models like the 5060 and the base model 5060 Ti
  
  
  
• It can also run PhysX games, which Nvidia half-killed on the 5000 series. But now so can AMD graphics cards. (WCCFTech)
  
  Thanks to open-source library ZLUDA.
  
  
  
• The war against woke could end US science as we know it. (The Verge) (archive site)
  
  Promise?

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