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Panasonic Will No Longer Make Its Own TVs

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Par : BeauHD
23 février 2026 à 22:40
Panasonic is handing over the manufacturing, marketing, and sales of its TVs to Shenzhen-based Skyworth, effectively exiting in-house TV production. Ars Technica reports: Skyworth is a Shenzhen-headquartered TV brand. The company claims to be "a top three global provider of the Android TV platform." In July, research firm Omdia reported that Skyworth was one of the top-five TV brands by sales revenue in Q1 2025; however, Skyworth hasn't been able to maintain that position regularly. Panasonic made its announcement at a "launch event," FlatpanelsHD reported today. During the event, a Panasonic representative reportedly said: "Under the agreement the new partner will lead sales, marketing, and logistics across the region, while Panasonic provide expertise and quality assurance to uphold its renowned audiovisual standards with full joint development on top-end OLED models." Panasonic also said that it will provide support "for all Panasonic TVs sold up to March 2026 and all those available from April." Skyworth-made Panasonic TVs will be sold in the US and Europe. In the latter geography, the companies are aiming for double-digit market share. [...] The news means there's virtually no TV production happening in Japan anymore, as other Japanese companies, like Sharp, Toshiba, Hitachi, and Pioneer, have already exited TV production. Earlier this year, Sony announced that it was ceding control of its TV hardware business to TCL.

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GNU Octave 11.1.0 released

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Par : corbet
23 février 2026 à 22:28
Version 11.1.0 of the GNU Octave scientific programming language has been released.

This major release contains many new and improved functions. Among other things, it brings better support for classdef objects and arrays, broadcasting for special matrix types (like sparse, diagonal, or permutation matrices), updates for Matlab compatibility (notably support for the nanflag, vecdim and other parameters for many basic math and statistics functions), and performance improvements in many functions.

See the release notes for details.

Bridge returned error 0! (20507)

✇Bluesky - Tristan K. (@tristankamin.bsky.social)
Par : RSS-Bridge
23 février 2026 à 22:07

See https://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/libcurl-errors.html for description of the curl error code.

Details

Type: HttpException
Code: 0
Message: cURL error Operation timed out after 5002 milliseconds with 0 bytes received: 28 (https://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/libcurl-errors.html) for https://public.api.bsky.app/xrpc/app.bsky.feed.getAuthorFeed?actor=did%3Aplc%3Atoudj53egawswz2ypw3zyn2u&filter=posts_and_author_threads&limit=30
File: lib/http.php
Line: 185

Trace

#0 index.php(73): RssBridge->main()
#1 lib/RssBridge.php(39): RssBridge->{closure:RssBridge::main():37}()
#2 lib/RssBridge.php(37): BasicAuthMiddleware->__invoke()
#3 middlewares/BasicAuthMiddleware.php(13): RssBridge->{closure:RssBridge::main():37}()
#4 lib/RssBridge.php(37): CacheMiddleware->__invoke()
#5 middlewares/CacheMiddleware.php(44): RssBridge->{closure:RssBridge::main():37}()
#6 lib/RssBridge.php(37): ExceptionMiddleware->__invoke()
#7 middlewares/ExceptionMiddleware.php(17): RssBridge->{closure:RssBridge::main():37}()
#8 lib/RssBridge.php(37): SecurityMiddleware->__invoke()
#9 middlewares/SecurityMiddleware.php(19): RssBridge->{closure:RssBridge::main():37}()
#10 lib/RssBridge.php(37): MaintenanceMiddleware->__invoke()
#11 middlewares/MaintenanceMiddleware.php(10): RssBridge->{closure:RssBridge::main():37}()
#12 lib/RssBridge.php(37): TokenAuthenticationMiddleware->__invoke()
#13 middlewares/TokenAuthenticationMiddleware.php(10): RssBridge->{closure:RssBridge::main():33}()
#14 lib/RssBridge.php(34): DisplayAction->__invoke()
#15 actions/DisplayAction.php(54): DisplayAction->createResponse()
#16 actions/DisplayAction.php(89): BlueskyBridge->collectData()
#17 bridges/BlueskyBridge.php(164): BlueskyBridge->getAuthorFeed()
#18 bridges/BlueskyBridge.php(633): getContents()
#19 lib/contents.php(104): CurlHttpClient->request()
#20 lib/http.php(185)

Context

Query: action=display&bridge=BlueskyBridge&data_source=getAuthorFeed&user_id=tristankamin.bsky.social&feed_filter=posts_and_author_threads&include_reposts=on&format=Atom
Version: 2025-08-05 (git.master.e213d95)
OS: Linux
PHP: 8.4.16

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ASML Unveils EUV Light Source Advance That Could Yield 50% More Chips By 2030

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Par : BeauHD
23 février 2026 à 21:57
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Researchers at ASML Holding say they have found a way to boost the power of the light source in a key chip making machine to turn out up to 50% more chips by decade's end, to help retain the Dutch company's edge over emerging U.S. and Chinese rivals. ASML is the world's only maker of commercial extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV) machines, a critical tool for chipmakers such as TSMC, Intel and others in producing advanced computing chips. "It's not a parlor trick or something like this, where we demonstrate for a very short time that it can work," Michael Purvis, ASML's lead technologist for its EUV source light, said in an interview. "It's a system that can produce 1,000 watts under all the same requirements that you could see at a customer," he added, speaking at the company's California facilities near San Diego. [...] With the technological advance revealed on Monday, which is being reported here for the first time, ASML aims to outdistance any would-be rivals by improving the most technologically challenging aspect of the machines. This is the quest to generate EUV light with the right power and properties to turn out chips at high volume. The company's researchers have found a way to boost the power of the EUV light source to 1,000 watts from 600 watts now. The chief advantage is that greater power translates into the ability to make more chips every hour, helping to lower the cost of each. Chips are printed similar to a photograph, where the EUV light is shone on a silicon wafer coated with special chemicals called a photoresist. With a more powerful EUV light source, chip factories need shorter exposure times. "We'd like to make sure that our customers can keep on using EUV at a much lower cost," Teun van Gogh, executive vice president for the NXE line of EUV machines at ASML, told Reuters. Van Gogh said customers should be able to process about 330 silicon wafers an hour on each machine by the end of the decade, up from 220 now. Depending on the size of a chip, each wafer can hold anywhere from scores to thousands of the devices. ASML got the power boost by doubling down on an approach that already places its machines among the most complex inventions of humans. To produce light with a wavelength of 13.5 nanometers, ASML's machine shoots a stream of molten droplets of tin through a chamber, where a massive carbon dioxide laser heats them into plasma. This is a superheated state of matter in which the tin droplets become hotter than the sun and emit EUV light, to be collected by precision optic equipment supplied by Germany's Carl Zeiss AG and fed into the machine to print chips. The key advancements in Monday's disclosure involved doubling the number of tin drops to about 100,000 every second, and shaping them into plasma using two smaller laser bursts, as opposed to today's machines that use a single shaping burst. [...] ASML believes the techniques it used to hit 1,000 watts will unlock continued advances in the future, Purvis said, adding, "We see a reasonably clear path toward 1,500 watts, and no fundamental reason why we couldn't get to 2,000 watts."

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