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Last updated: June 28th, 2022 at 13:39 UTC+02:00 Samsung’s journey to 3nm chipset manufacturing continues, and the company will reportedly start producing 3nm GAA-based chipsets this week. However, the yield will be lower than initially expected, and the company’s first 3nm chipset to enter production won’t be destined for smartphones. Instead, Samsung will use its 3nm GAA foundry process for PanSemi. The latter is a Chinese IC firm specializing in chips designed for Bitcoin mining. (via The Elec) And contrary to…

A gold miner found a mummified baby woolly mammoth in the Trʼondëk Hwëchʼin Traditional Territory in Yukon, Canada. According to a press release from the local government, the female baby mammoth has been named Nun cho ga by the First Nation Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in elders, which translates to "big baby animal" in the Hän language.   Nun cho ga is the most complete mummified mammoth discovered in North America.Nun cho ga died and was frozen in permafrost during the ice age, over 30,000 years old, said the press release. She …

Piedmont Lithium’s first steps toward securing lithium supplies will be in Quebec or Ghana, not the United States, as an intensifying North Carolina regulatory review delays the miner’s goal of anchoring America’s electric vehicle battery renaissance, Reuters reported. The delay has forced Piedmont to expand its strategy beyond its proposed North Carolina mine – a project it has touted as the best way to help secure…

ADELAIDE, Australia—The world’s largest mining company abandoned the sale of its last thermal coal mine, and said it would aim to close the Australian pit in 2030. Despite record-high coal prices, BHP Group Ltd. said it failed to find a buyer for the Mt Arthur mine, which is one of Australia’s biggest coal operations but is technically complex and will have a large cleanup bill when it closes. The decision was welcomed by some activists, who have been urging big miners to…