Canon tries to break ASML’s grip on chipmaking tools | A psychology expert shares 5 toxic phrases 'highly selfish, entitled' people always use—and how to deal with them | Why films have become so ridiculously long | What to Know About Netflix's 'Doona!'

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� � � � � � Canon tries to break ASML's grip on chipmaking tools - The Economist    Purveyors of chipmaking tools seldom attract attention. Yet many investors’ heads turned on October 13th, when Canon unveiled a new piece of kit. It is easy to see why. The Japanese company, which makes optical equipment, claims that its “nanoimprint” lithography machine can etch the very smallest transistors used in the most advanced microchips. Such feats have hitherto been the preserve of ASML, a Dutch manufacturer of lithographic tools. Canon hopes to eat further into ASML’s business by eventually cranking out two-nanometre chips. The possibility of breaking ASML’s stranglehold on the supply chain for cutting-edge chips is intriguing. The firm has long enjoyed the biggest monopoly in the concentrated semiconductor industry. The world’s three biggest chip manufacturers—Intel, Samsung and TSMC—depend entirely on its extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) technology to produce the cutting-edge microprocessors that go into smartphones and the powerful data-centre servers on which the computing cloud lives. ASML’s EUV rigs use high-powered lasers to etch electrical blueprints onto circular silicon discs. Canon’s alternative, by contrast, directly stamps chip designs on such wafers using a patterned mould. In theory, this allows it to make more detailed patterns. And because it involves fewer steps and avoids the need for expensive lasers and supersmooth mirrors, it could be much cheaper than EUV lithography. ASML’s share price dipped by more than 2% and Canon’s rose by nearly as much on the nanoimprint news. Continued here � � � � � � Don't like ads? Go ad-free with TradeBriefs Premium A psychology expert shares 5 toxic phrases 'highly selfish, entitled' people always use—and how to deal with them - CNBC    We are all innately selfish to some degree. The real challenge is achieving a balance of "healthy selfishness" that allows you to become self-focused, instead of self-involved. As a workplace psychology researcher, I've spent more than 30 years helping companies navigate overly selfish employees, particularly the ones whose behavior can be harmful to their teammates. Here are five toxic phrases highly selfish and entitled individuals always use — and how to deal with them: Continued here � � � � � � Why films have become so ridiculously long - The Economist    Want to know what is coming soon to a cinema near you? Probably not an hour-and-a-half-long movie, as in the old days. This year audiences have endured the longest instalments yet in the “Indiana Jones”, “John Wick” and “Mission: Impossible” franchises. “Oppenheimer”, Christopher Nolan’s three-hour blockbuster, required 11 miles (18km) of film stock for IMAX showings. On October 20th comes “Killers of the Flower Moon” (pictured), a grisly western from the director Martin Scorsese. At nearly three and a half hours, its length is nearly double that of the average film last year. Even movie buffs struggle to concentrate for that long. During the premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May, some viewers dozed off. Afterwards there was a mad dash (and long queue) for the toilets. When did watching a film become such a slog? The Economist analysed over 100,000 feature films released internationally since the 1930s, the start of Hollywood’s golden age, using data from IMDb, a movie database. The average length of productions has crept up by around 24%, from one hour and 21 minutes in the 1930s to one hour and 47 minutes in 2022 (see chart). Blockbusters are the worst offenders. For the ten most-popular titles (measured by how many reviewers rated the films on IMDb) average lengths stretched to around two and a half hours in 2022, nearly 50% higher than in the 1930s. Continued here � � � � � � What to Know About Netflix's 'Doona!' - TIME    Doona!, out Oct. 20 on Netflix, adapts the popular South Korean webtoon The Girl Downstairs for a K-drama about a former K-pop idol who may or may not fall for her regular-guy roommate. Starring the South Korean actor Bae Suzy (who in real life was part of a K-pop girl group) as the titular Doona, the series is helmed by Lee Jung-hyo—the director of 2019’s internationally acclaimed romance romp Crash Landing on You. Doona! is part of Netflix’s continued foray into webtoons—and one of at least four webtoon-based K-dramas coming to the platform in 2023. These web comics, primed to thrive on mobile platforms, have amassed tens of millions of readers in Korea since gaining popularity in the early 2000s and inspired many hit K-dramas, including last year’s zombie horror All of Us Are Dead and the 2018 rom-com What’s Wrong With Secretary Kim. Doona! follows Lee Doona, the linchpin of K-pop girl group Dream Sweet. At the peak of her career, Doona makes the surprising move to drop out from the industry and reside in a sharehouse in a college town, where she meets Lee Wonjun, a 20-year-old freshman living upstairs who barely knows who she is. Continued here

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