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LEGO has been in video games decades, but its latest strategic movement suggests that it is now more seriously than ever

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LEGO has been present in dozens of video games, but most have been developed by third parties. That could change soon. His CEO, Niels Christiansen, has revealed in an interview with Financial Times that the company is betting again on a team of internal developmentan interesting movement in its strategy. The idea seems clear: having more control over your products. To understand the importance of this step, it is enough to review the history of Lego and how its relationship with the digital world has evolved. Founded in Denmark in 1932Lego began to manufacture plastic bricks in 1949. Over time, he expanded his catalog and consolidated himself as one of the most influential toy brands in the world, although without paying attention to the digital world. However, at the beginning of the 1990s, when computer science began to collect more strength than ever, a group of enthusiasts led by the artist Dent-de-lion du Midi (also known as dandi) thought it was the moment that LEGO would make the leap from the physical world to the films and, eventually, that of video games. Lego in the world of video games To convince the company was not an easy task. Dandi and his team worked for more than a year in the creation of a digital library that recreated Lego bricks in a virtual environment, an idea that was revolutionary at that time. But when they finally presented the project, The answer was a blunt not. Despite the rejection, the team did not give up. Instead of leaving the initiative, they decided to bring their proposal directly to Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen, CEO of the company and grandson of the founder. The bet went well. Kristiansen was impressed enough to assign a budget for an in -depth study on the digitalization of Lego products. That study would end up paying fruits. With an initial investment of 11.5 million dollars (about 27 million adjusted to inflation), the “was born”Darwin Project“, an initiative that gave rise to four divisions, one of them dedicated to video games. From here, ‘Lego Island’ in 1997, the first video game for the company’s PC was helped. However, the initial enthusiasm did not take long to be eclipsed by the financial reality of the company. In the early 2000s, in full economic crisis, Lego decided to sell its division of video games as part of a strategy of a strategy Restructuring to avoid bankruptcy, thus delegating the development of their titles in external studies. Today, the situation is radically different. LEGO has not only avoided bankrupt Billing of 10,100 million dollars in 202413% more than the previous year. With its business more solid than ever, the company has decided to recover control over its digital strategy. “We can cover experiences for children of all ages, digital or physical,” says Christiansen. For that purpose, an internal game development division “It is something we are building” The bet is firm. LEGO has invested hundreds of millions of dollars to triple its template of software engineers since 2022 and in reinforcing its digital infrastructure. What remains to be seen is whether this new approach will mean a distancing from external studies with which he has worked for years. Give up developments like ‘Lego Star Wars‘ either ‘Indian Lego Jones‘, which have been key in their success in the video game industry, would be a risky play. Meanwhile, ‘LEGO Fortnite‘He has shown that the brand still has a huge pull, with 87 million players to his credit. The big question is: will this movement mark the beginning of a new era for LEGO video games, or will it simply be another piece in its global strategy? Time will say if the Danish company is willing to Build your own brick road to brick Or if, as until now, he continues to trust his external partners to shape his digital universe. Images | LEGO In Xataka | How ‘Fortnite’ is creating his particular “fortniteverso” thanks to Lego, with whom he is reformulating his foundations In Xataka | There is a fever for video games designed “for couples” because they get something unexpected: reinvent the ways of playing

Operate with Bitcoin in banks like the BBVA is great except for one thing: the ball will always be on your roof

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The BBVA has just become the first large traditional bank in Allow your customers to operate with cryptocurrencies. I announced this week after receiving the so -called Mica license (Markets in Crypto Assets), the European regulation that It was approved in April 2023. This is apparently good news for the entity, customers and the world of cryptodivisas, but be careful. Buy Bitcoins as if they were actions. BBVA customers can now access the sale of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin or eth (Ethereum) directly from the same app that they already use to operate with their money and financial products. Everything is unified under the same interface, and the bank ensures custody of cryptographic keys to avoid any type of problem in that regard. But there are other potential problems. And very important. In Xataka Cryptocurrencies: What are they, how others work and also in addition to Bitcoin You stew it, you eat it. The BBVA makes clear In its official statement that “the bank will not carry out any advice work and can only be accessed to the service at the initiative of the client.” That is: customers may not receive advice on whether it is a good time to buy or sell or what budget to dedicate to it, for example. Throwing balls out. It is the client who will have all the responsibility on these operations, and here the bank simply throws balls out. The CEO of CaixaBank, Gonzalo Cortázar, also pointed the same as saying that “the Bitcoin It has volatility That we all know and other cryptocurrencies, too. It is difficult to advise on the fundamentals of Bitcoin. I would not know how to do it and our teams, at this time, either. “The entity at the moment does not offer the option to operate with cryptocurrencies, but does not rule out doing it in the future if their customers demand it. Mifid is not mica. As they point out In five daysthere is a board of the European Union called Mifid II which tries to protect investors in risk assets. To achieve this, use a simple and direct method: each client who wants to invest must fill in a questionnaire identifying their knowledge, their previous experience and its objectives with the investment. That allows from that data the entity can advise on these risk assets. Mica does not have that requirement for cryptocurrencies. But there will be notices. Even so, experts cited in five days highlight that theoretically many banks are working on including some type of knowledge evaluation. Thus, theoretically customers will see notices that will allow them Identify the risks of operating with cryptodivisas. BBVA has not confirmed whether they will adopt these processes. Mica 2 in view. Gloria Hernández Aller, co -founder partner of FinalEg360, commented in that news how the United Kingdom the regulator requires this type of entities that they do make a convenience test to customers before being able to invest in cryptoactive. In fact, it points to that if a Mica 2 appears, “include a convenience test even for the sale of crypts.” {“videoid”: “x801VDM”, “Autoplay”: fals, “title”: “bitcoin, blockchain and cryptocurrencies everything you wanted to know and never asked”, “tag”: “cryptocurrencies”, “duration”: “2797”} Caution, Bitcoin Buyer Friend in Banks. From Xataka, our recommendation is to take special precautions when investing in the cryptodivsis market: the volatility of these digital assets remains enormous, and the risk is clearly higher than with investments in traditional markets. Hopefully entities such as BBVA clearly warn of these risks in these processes. In revolut or bit2me you have to pass a small test. These two entities have long allowed cryptocurrency to operate, but as they point out in five days, both force the user for processes that help these users understand the risks. In Revolut the user must select among various options and answer some questions. According to the answers, some users can see access to more complex products restricted. In bit2me Customers must undergo an suitability test before they can start operating. Image | BBVA In Xataka | Cryptocurrencies were supposed to “become” independent “from the power of states. The US has just killed him (Function () {Window._js_modules = Window._js_modules || {}; var headelement = document.getelegsbytagname (‘head’) (0); if (_js_modules.instagram) {var instagramscript = Document.Createlement (‘script’); }}) (); – The news Operate with Bitcoin in banks like the BBVA is great except for one thing: the ball will always be on your roof It was originally posted in Xataka by Javier Pastor .

iOS 19 promises to be a total look change. It is actually something much more important for Apple

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Apple prepares to execute the greatest redesign of its operating systems in a decade. As Mark Gurman filtered in Bloomberg, iOS 19 will involve a radical transformation of the iPhone interfacewith Changes in icons, menus, windows and system controls. A risky bet for a manufacturer whose income slowed down after boom pandemic and whose star product – the iPhone – has finally accumulated the feeling of Touch in income even with some fall. The interesting thing about this redesign is What tells us about Apple’s strategy. The cook company usually marks trend in interface designs, but now it is seen in a paradoxical situation: seeks inspiration in its less sold product, the Vision Pro. His mixed reality helmet does not seem unify the experience Among all Apple devices. It is a fine irony: the product that has the least users is the one to mark how we will interact with our devices the more than one billion iPhone users. This movement speaks of another important change in Apple’s product philosophy. For years it has maintained a clear distinction among its platforms, resisting the temptation to merge iOS and macOS as competitors have tried (Microsoft, Google). GIF: Apple. Now, without abandoning that functional separationApple seeks a visual coherence that makes the transition between devices more fluid. It is no accident that it occurs in a very marked context: Difficulty increasing income in the last two yearswhich translates into the need to stimulate the renewal of devices and consolidate its ecosystem The redesign also indicates a possible vulnerability in the current Apple position: the iPhone interface, once revolutionary, He has become familiar to the point of invisibility. Innovating in hardware is increasingly complicated when the product is mature – at the smartphone now happens to what at the time happened to the computer – so The perception of novelty must be created through software. If you cannot revolutionize physical experience, visually change it. It is a technological, but also psychological game: to make the known feel new. But without alienating a base of heterogeneous and massive users accustomed to certain interaction patterns. It is not the same to make changes in the Mac OS X of 2007 (for a niche of users, the majority enthusiasts) than in the IOS of 2025 (for people of all ages, technical levels and cultural contexts, from children to the elderly). The question is not whether Apple will technically implement these changes – it has talent and resources to do so and will do it – but If they will achieve the delicate balance between innovation and familiarity that defines the best product evolutions. As he taught us iOS 7 It makes twelve years, reinvent what works always entails risks. But maybe that is precisely the point: Apple needs to risk again. In Xataka | The decline of the “Apple culture”. Blind devotion has evolved towards critical enthusiasm Outstanding image | Apple

We had many doubts about the relationship that Neanderthals and Sapiens had. The remains of a child are solving them

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Today is a fact recognized by the scientific community, which sapiens(Homo sapiens) and Neanderthals (H. Neanderthalensis) They lived in some contexts. Fruit of that coexistence, the procreation between both human species and, the result of that procreation, a Neandertal genetic legacy that still lasts, to a greater or less measure, in our genes. Fruit also of that hybridization were the remains of the one we know today as the Lapedo child. New dating. Now, a new study He has managed to stop These bone remains found almost 30 years ago in the Lapedo Valley, in the center-west of Portugal. According to this new dating, the child to whom these bones belonged would have lived about 28,000 years ago, millennia after the extinction of their Neanderthal ancestors. A key finding. The remains of the Lapedo child was found by chance in 1998 in the homonymous valley, near the Portuguese city of Leiria. At the time, the infant bone remains assumed an important test in favor of the hybridization hypothesis between Neanderthals and Sapiens. The bones showed their own features. Of the Neanderthals would have inherited attributes such as complexion. At the time when some experts DNA began to study Of the bone remains left behind by the Neanderthals, these remains showed us otherwise the results of the hybridization between our species and its evolutionary “cousins”. Studies that would also help confirm this hybridization. New information 27 years later. The new study estimates that the Lapedo child would have lived between 27,780 and 28,550 years ago. The dating had been elusive so far since the remains were surrounded by organic matter belonging to different periods. The team managed to save this obstacle focusing on an amino acid present in the collagen of human bones. “Being able to successfully date the child, we feel like a small piece of their history, which is a great privilege,” explained to Phys.org Bethan Linscott, co -author of the study. The details of the study have been published In an article In the magazine Science Advances. Rites … The child’s bones are only part of the history of the society in which he was born. And, as Linscott explains, these remains were found in a grave, they had not been left behind but had received some kind of funeral rite. The bone remains were found along with animal bones. Next to the child were discovered remains belonging to a deer, and about the child, remains belonging to a rabbit. A piece of coal that seemed to be part of a funeral rite was also discovered. The study of the different elements showed a somewhat different story. While rabbit’s remains were contemporary of the infant’s remains, both the deer bones and the piece of bastard would be prior to the era in which this lived. … and superstitions? Another important detail that reveals the Lopedo site is that this was abandoned for at least two millennia after the burial of the young man. This allows us to speculate with the reason for this migration and about its possible connection with the tomb found in this environment. In Xataka | 8,000 years ago a group of farmers crossed the Aegean Sea. Its trail can still be seen in the DNA in Media Europe Image | Jakub Hałun

His actions are biting from the beginning of the year and every day they will be worse

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When we write these lines, a Tesla action costs $ 222. The figure is already lower than that registered on November 5, 2024, the day on which the United States elections were held. And it is very close to matching the $ 213 that cost an action at the end of October, the lowest figure in the last six months. What has happened? 15%. That is what has been left on the last day in the bag before writing this article. Is the last fall and the confirmation that the company approaches the border of 200 euros in a collapse that does not seem to find soil. With the 222 dollars with which it was closed yesterday it is confirmed that the company has zamped all the growth registered since Donald Trump was confirmed as New President of the United States in the last elections of November 5, 2024. 40 dollars. It is the value per action that Tesla has lost during the last weekend. On Friday, having a small part of the company cost 262 dollars, a figure that was already another 22 dollars lower than that registered that same Monday, March 3 when the cost of it was estimated at $ 284. The Tesla fall on Monday, March 10 was, yes, in tune with the rest of the New York Stock Exchange companies. Alphabet, goal, Apple, Nvidia, Microsoft … The main companies lost money but in no case registered the fall of Tesla on a day when, yes, there was The biggest drop in the bag since 2022. Elon Musk, a value. The performance of the last weeks affects the idea that Tesla’s actions comply with what some define as Cult stock: Actions that base their performance on future promises instead of their current results. It is the explanation to understand how the company has been supported by investors despite giving losses for years and years. That Blind cult to the figure of Elon Musk and its continuous promises on products of all kinds that They have come late (and Not too well) They tried the actions for their proximity to Donald Trump when it was learned that the latter was done with the seat in the oval office. Disproportionate growth. “When the actions They overvalue so much upa fall of the same size is expected. “With these words, Gina Bolvin explained, president of Bolvin Wealth Management Groupto CNN Why the performance of Tesla’s actions in recent weeks is being so bad. Readjustment. On December 17, just a month and a half After the United States electionsTesla shares reached its maximum peak with a value of $ 476. Today they are worth less than half of that price. The collapse has been sustained but except for specific rebounds, has fallen with a crash until touching the barrier of 200 dollars/action. With Musk’s closeness to the White House, it was taken for granted Tesla gained strength. The company’s owner has supported the withdrawal of subsidies to the purchase of electric cars and that, in the short term, should favor a company in clear competitive advantage within the US market. Advances in autonomous driving were also expected and His future Robotaxi. The raw numbers. However, the perspectives of the actions have encountered a wall: reality. Last year was the first in which Tesla failed to overcome sales to the previous year, despite try to avoid it by all possible means. And the first two months have left loud falls in all markets, From China to the United States, going through Europe. We talk about 54% falls in Germany (the largest electric car market in Europe) and 63% in France. In Spain, where stop selling cars has an impact on more pronounced percentage sales falls, 75.50% were left in January. And the problem is not just stop selling vehicles. Its biggest problem is that other companies demonstrate with sales that are not so far from Tesla. Beyond a matter of low sales due to a bad reputation, which Tesla has gone from a market share between electric 29% in Europe to 6% current It is a very bad news for the company. Turn around. Tesla seems to need two shoves. The first, of course, turn your sales numbers. Their numbers should begin to improve little by little. The Tesla Model and its best selling car, has to arrive in Europe with its update and should be a commercial impact that we will still take to see in numbers, since the registrations of the same will begin in March. Update. After months rumoredit is very likely that a good number of buyers have waited for the image soda to take it. It started selling a high price But it is now available in all its versions. It remains to what extent Tesla can trust those postponed sales. Of course, time will also say if Tesla continues to deflate in China. In a country where the electric car is being renewed at a devilish pace, it will be necessary to see if the update of the Tesla Model and is not far behind a country that has seen how in recent days the Xiaomi Su7 ultra swept reservations and Byd already throws drones from their cars. And the Robotaxi. We must also remain very attentive to the future of the autonomous driving of Tesla. The robotaxi is the Great Promise of the Companywhich should allow her to open a business line that will lead her to another financial dimension. The great promise is that it is working and generating performance in 2027. However, the toughest competitors They have burned billions of dollars For years and their results are being very poor. The short time space to put a robotaxi in the market and the performance that until now have had the functions of autonomous driving of Tesla do not incite to be optimistic with which, at least, the announced plans are fulfilled. Photo | Tesla and Google In Xataka | Elon Musk … Read more

China is improving both its wind turbines that Germany only finds an explanation: spies

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Espionage is an art that requires adequate ingenuity, strategy and tools. But if we talked about using wind turbines to obtain information, it would seem science fiction. However, reality exceeds fiction, China has been accused of spying on Germany. Short. A group of German experts has detailed In a report that Chinese manufacturers could be using sensors in wind turbines to collect unauthorized data in Germany. In detail. The report, commissioned by the German Ministry of Defense, suggests that Chinese companies They could use sensors of turbines to extract confidential data or turn off the turbines remotely. In addition, they have recommended suspending wind projects that have a Chinese signature, the first being the Waterkant Marine Park. And what does China say? China’s Chamber of Commerce (CCCEU) has described the report as “technically unlikely and lacking a factual basis.” From the Chinese agency they have assured that companies are complying with European regulations. In addition, they have argued that concerns about security, related to data collection or remote control, are a pretext to block Chinese companies in the European market, which could affect loyal competition and international commercial relations. But can the turbines be used to spy? According to the CCCEU and Chinese experts, wind turbines They are not equipped to spy. The sensors are designed to optimize performance, monitor failures and protect wildlife. In addition, the remote control and management systems of wind farms, such as Waterkant, are managed by German and European companies. From the Chinese part they reinforce the idea that these allegations are unfounded and part of an attempt to protect the local market. But in defense. Marine wind projects have been suspended for military security concerns such as It happened in Sweden. The reason is because a wind farm can affect the arrest and monitoring of missiles due to the dimensions of a wind turbine. However, other countries are using them in their favor as the case of Poland, which has installed radar and sound systems among wind turbines. In addition, a similar strategy is addressing Windeurope together with NATO and the European Defense Agency (EDA) with the creation of a new project: Symbiosis. In it they seek to deploy marine renewable energies in the maritime defense space and create synergies to address them. Other accusations of espionage to China. It is not the first time that the Asian giant is accused in the German country, less than a year ago, three suspects They were arrested for stealing military technology. He was also accused of Early Europe With its secret space plane. It should be added, all the material you are designing to improve your espionage skills as Use Starlink signals to detect spy and drones airplanes, or A camera that identifies faces 100 kilometers. Finally, the Asian country It is developing A espionage agency, the Guoanbu, to become the first world power by 2049. The approach is based on economic and technological intelligence, along with cyberspage capabilities. Forecasts. Right now the US tariff replication has left a vacuum In global trade, which China is taking advantage of exporting its exports. For that reason, China wants to continue investing and working with the European Union. Despite this friction, bilateral shops They have reached The 5,591 billion yuan (771 billion dollars) in 2024, reflecting an interannual increase of 1.6 percent. Image | Pixabay Xataka | Finland has a problem with renewables. You will solve it by building a storage megabattery

Openai has just signed a contract of 11.9 billion dollars, according to Reuters. It’s a poisoned dart for Microsoft

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The idyll between OpenAI with Microsoft It seems to be a thing of the past. Both companies have been preparing their respective future strategies for months, and it seems clear that in both cases the objective is the same: cut that relationship and independent of each other. Openai ends up announcing something key to achieve it. He has thrown new girlfriend, could be said. Who is Coreweave. Coreweave is a startup in which Nvidia has 6% participation. The company has a compound infrastructure (at the end of 2024) by 32 data centers with about 250,000 graphics cards of NVIDIA. Now he added more, including the new GPUS with Blackwell architecture, and thanks to that he can offer training and inference services for AI models. They started with crypts. The company is an example of the conversion, because when it was founded in 2017, Coreweave (then called Atlantic Crypto) was dedicated to Ethereum mining with GPUS. After the value fall in cryptocurrencies in 2018 they ended up changing their name and focus a year later. OpenAI signs an agreement with Coreweave. According to Reuters These two companies have reached an agreement worth 11.9 billion that will last five years. OpenAI will receive $ 350 million from Coreweave shares, and while Coreweave earns a spectacular customer for his future. And above all, in the face of his future public offer of actions. An impulse for your OPA. Coreweave is about to go overand intends to lift at least 4,000 million dollars. In 2024 they had revenues of 1.9 billion dollars, almost eight times more than in 2023, when 228.9 million dollars entered. Which is also double. The problem that Coreweave had is that they depended almost on a single client, Microsoft, which was responsible for 62% of that income. It also has as clients Cohere, goal and mystral, but with less prominence. Openai alliance is especially important to encourage investors to trust their future and in success of that IPO. Microsoft and OpenAi go to yours. In the announcement of the Stargate project it was clear that Microsoft would cease to be the only opening infrastructure provider of OpenAI. Meanwhile, Microsoft works In its own reasoning models to compete with those of OpenAI or Deepseek R1, for example, that effort is added to the development of the models Like Phi 4. A Plan B for Azure or AWS. OpenAI seems determined to avoid as much as possible to large cloud infrastructure suppliers such as Microsoft with Azure or Amazon with AWS. His alliance with Coreweaver is especially significant, especially since it implies another evidence that the alliance with Microsoft seems definitely condemned. Image | Techcrunch | Coreweave In Xataka | Manus is the new sensation of China after Deepseek. Is generating as many expectations as doubts

Spanish men are developing a peculiar obsession with swamps

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There is nothing written about tastes. Nor about obsessions. There are people aware of the LaLiga classificationfans of cars who do not escape any presentation, in love with literature or cinema to the removal of any novelty … and people, increasingly And that is also seen more clearly In networksthat shares a peculiar fascination: follow the evolution of the swamps. They are the ‘reservoir boys’. How are the reservoirs? The question may seem bland, especially in winter, with a good part of the country passed through water and without any specific reason to be aware of the Spanish reservoir network or some special swamp. However, more and more people (men above all) seem to ask that question every week. How are the reservoirs? Do they go up? Do they go down? His obsession is measured in a very precise unit: cubic hectometers. Click on the image to go to Tweet. Click on the image to go to the message. Click on the image to go to Tweet. “Spain in vilo”. A quick search arrives in X either Bluesky To confirm the interest aroused by reservoirs. In fact it is so clear that something else is found: who jokes on the subject Or comment, no longer the data of the swamps themselves, but the obsession around the data of the swamps, pulling humor. “Going to look at reservoirs.net is the greatest male urgency there are,” He wrote yesterday A user in X. and is not the only one. “Spain in vilo before the imminent update this Tuesday”, Add another. In Bluesky They can also be read A good handful of messages About swamps, including those who use The sneer. A name: reservoirs.net. All obsession has its axis. And that of the reservoirs has its own name: Reservoirs.neta website with updated information on embalmed water nationwide, weekly and annual variation and a data rosary by hydrographic basin. All well seasoned with graphics (infinity of graphics) and an arsenal of figures capable of delighting people who when the window appears on the days of Borrasca does not see rain but HM3 and double axis graphics. Click on the image to go to Tweet. Click on the image to go to Tweet. Click on the image to go to Tweet. Click on the image to go to Tweet. Click on the image to go to Tweet. Are there more sources? Of course. The Ministry for Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge (MITECO) has its Hydrological Bulletinthere is also information about Confederations Hydrographic and Other websites that are responsible for collecting data from swamps. However, a search in X or Bluesky arrives to confirm that when obsession with the reservoirs, the looks are usually directed to Emblasses.net. To find data … and (too) to pull irony. “You do not know the desire that I have to take out the updated data of reservoirs of the week @reservoirs.net. It is being my drug,” He published yesterday In bluesky Fran Lamadrid. He profile of the web on the old Twitter is around 43,500 followers and there are those who, pulling more sneer, speaks of “data porn”. Click on the image to go to Tweet. Click on the image to go to Tweet. Click on the image to go to Tweet. Where does that interest come from? The million dollar question. The reservoirs are not the first obsession that flies free on the old Twitter. Before they have already been such disparate issues as The Roman Empire either The menu of the University dining room of Almería, between a long, very long etcetera. Obviously it is not the only obsession that is extending on the social network. Another topic supported by data that also gives rise to a good number of messages is demography and, specifically, birth. That there are so many people pending the reservoirs, however, with some issues that have been under the media focus in recent months. The main one, drought. The Rain scarcity has led several regions of Spain to look With concern Your swamps and water reserves. Another is the tragic Dana that hit Valencia and focused the focus, among other points, on The Foraata Reservoir. Images | Jacinta Lluch Valero (Flickr) and Miteco In Xataka | Batmancito: the disturbing baby “Reborn” to which his parents are becoming a viral phenomenon giving him life with ia

It is manufacturing AI chips for Huawei despite the sanctions, according to the United States

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TSMC’s headaches have not finished. The US government definitely included Huawei in its blacklist in 2020, and one of the immediate consequences of this decision was that this Taiwan chips manufacturer stopped producing semiconductors For this Chinese company. Two years later, in October 2022, the US administration decided to include All the Chinese semiconductor industry In his blacklist, which further cut the TSMC client portfolio. Anyway, for Huawei, it has all the meaning of the world to try to make TSMC manufacture some of the integrated circuits you design. This Chinese company is supported In this area by SMICwhich is the main producer of semiconductors in China, but its most advanced integration technologies are not up to TSMC avant -garde lithographs. And not having access to the most advanced lithographic nodes diminishes Huawei’s competitiveness. At the end of October 2024 the US Department of Commerce decided to investigate TSMC because he suspected that this gigantic Taiwanese company could have secretly reached agreements with Huawei to take care of the manufacture of its semiconductors for smartphones and applications of artificial intelligence (AI). At the current situation of tension between the US and China this accusation is very serious. Fortunately for TSMC everything was clarified a few months later. Another disturbing chapter in the relationship held TSMC and Huawei In December 2024 TSMC broke its commercial relationship With Powerair, a Singapore company that, apparently, was responsible for delivering the chip manufactured by TSMC that appeared on the card for the Ascend 910b. Interestingly, this was the second company presumably responsible for reaching Huawei integrated circuits produced by TSMC. In 2023 this last company stopped offering its manufacturing service to the Chinese Chips Design Company Sophgo to illegally mediate with Huawei. The CSIS accuses TSMC of having manufactured for Huawei no less than two million chips from AInd 910 Now is the CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies), an American organization that is dedicated to developing strategies that seek to guarantee the security of the US, which accuses TSMC in A freshly published report having made indirectly for Huawei for 2024 no less than Two million Ascend 910 chips. With these integrated circuits this Chinese company can produce a huge number of units of its ascend 910c solution, which is currently its hardware for the most advanced. The most interesting thing is that The CSIS holds that Huawei has once again resorted to “ghost” companies that act as intermediaries between her and TSMC. However, the author of the report does not exculpate the Taiwanese company: “TSMC manufactured large amounts of Ascend 910b of Huawei in the name of ghost companies and sent them to China, thus violating US export controls.” We will see how all this ends, but it does not paint well for a TSMC that has just embarked into an ambitious strategy of expansion of its production infrastructure within the country currently led by Donald Trump. Image | TSMC More information | Center for Strategic and International Studies In Xataka | TSMC does not contemplate the possibility of buying Intel factories. And their motives have a crushing logic

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