🇺🇸 🔥 — LA fire cluster in Pacific Palisades and surrounding neighborhoods now cover 23,654 acres and is 11% contained

🔗 Link

@CIG_Telegram

🇨🇳 🚗 🔋 — Chinese electric car manufacturer is poised to achieve the fastest growth of any car company in history, despite EU & US tariffs

BYD, China's premiere electric vehicle manufacturer has seen sales 12x since 2020 from 400K to 5.5M projected for 2025.

If achieved, 2025 targeted deliveries would make BYD bigger than Honda, Nissan, Peugeot, Renault, Ford and GM.

🔗 Link

@CIG_Telegram

🇱🇧🇺🇳 After the Lebanese Army (LA) announced that they are moving into additional towns in Southern Lebanon as the Israel Defense Forces withdraw, additional footage shows the work of the LA, in concert with Italian soldiers of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), to clear explosives and rubble. Additionally, a UNIFIL Italian B1 Centauro tank destroyer can be seen in the video.

🔗 Link

🇷🇺🛳 Russia's naval deployment in the Mediterranean on the morning of January 11

Russian vessels denied entering Tartus and Alexandr Shabalin suspected of weapons transfer at Oran, Algeria.

🔗 Link

TSMC's Arizona Fab 21 is already making 4nm chips — yield and quality reportedly on par with Taiwan fabs

TSMC has started producing chips at its Fab 21 near Phoenix, Arizona, using its 4nm-class process technology, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo told Reuters. This marks the first time such a cutting-edge production node has been manufactured in the United States. The confirmation from a high-ranking official comes months after the first unofficial information emerged that the fab was mass-producing chips for Apple.

"For the first time ever in our country's history, we are making leading-edge 4nm chips on American soil, American workers — on par in yield and quality with Taiwan," Raimondo told Reuters.

TSMC's Fab 21 in Arizona is manufacturing at least three processor models: the A16 Bionic system-on-chip used in Apple's iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus; the main processor of Apple's S9 system-in-package for smartwatches, which has two 64-bit cores and a quad-core neural engine; and an AMD Ryzen 9000-series CPU.

🔗 Link

📝 Mayte Chummia on X: "This marks the first time such a cutting-edge production node has been manufactured in the United States."

Los Angeles fires: Saltwater used to combat flames comes with immediate benefits but long-term risks

While saltwater can damage infrastructure, kill wildlife and have other consequences, sometimes it's a necessary trade-off, Papalia said.

"In this case, your city is burning to the ground, so using the saltwater is not that bad," he told Fox News Digital.

🔗 Link

🇺🇸 Animation of how the SoCal wildfire spread

@CIG_telegram

🌍 VIOLENT CLASHES IN AFRICA WORST SINCE 1946 - Off Leash

In a stunning report from The Wall Street Journal, violent clashes are raging across most countries on the African continent, creating the worst conflict and carnage since 1946.

📎 Erik Prince