Really looks like high-end re-shoring of chip tech is happening, and happening soon. What if satellite telephony becomes a table-stakes smartphone feature? Get ready for the bitcoin halving. Does anyone have invites to Airchat? And get ready for 4TB, yes, TB, SD cards.

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Links:

• Samsung boosts Joe Biden’s chipmaking ambitions with Texas plant upgrade (Financial Times)
• Exclusive: Google Pixel 9 series to get emergency satellite connectivity, new modem (Android Authority)
• Bitcoin ‘Halving’ Will Deal a $10 Billion Blow to Crypto Miners (Bloomberg)
• ChatGPT essay cheats are a menace to us all (Financial Times)
• Naval Ravikant’s Airchat is a social app built around talk, not text (TechCrunch)
• 4TB SD cards are arriving in 2025 for your cameras and laptops (The Verge)

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