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Nasdaq has made a one hundred million dollar investment in Payward, the parent company of crypto exchange Kraken, valuing the firm at twenty one billion dollars. That's up sharply from a thirteen point three billion valuation just five months ago, and the deal includes plans to bring tokenized, voting-enabled equities to crypto users — a sign that traditional finance and digital assets are converging faster than many expected.
On the hardware side, modders at the YouTube channel TecLab have built what they're calling the world's first RTX fifty ninety powered entirely by traditional eight-pin PCIe connectors. The card pulls up to nine hundred watts and hits three thousand four hundred megahertz, proving that older power delivery standards still have plenty of headroom — even for today's most demanding graphics hardware.
And in semiconductor news, ASML, TSMC, Samsung, and Intel are aligning around a transition to larger six by twelve inch photomasks for High-NA EUV lithography. The bigger stencils would let chipmakers print large designs in a single pass rather than stitching sections together, though the industry is cautioning the shift could still take years to fully realize.
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