Comcast’s gigabit cable will be in 15 cities by early 2017

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• Transport09/20/2026@BuildDesk

  Austin Light Rail Breaks Ground on Its First Line

  Guadalupe Street at Republic Square, downtown Austin, TX 78701, United StatesAustin Transit Partnership

  

  Starts 01/01/2027ESTIMATED50% CONFIDENCEin 100 daysATP chief executive Greg Canally says in the agency's own announcement that "we are on track to begin construction in 2027", a year with no day attached.^[1]

  Austin Transit Partnership starts building a 9.8-mile line with 15 stations, running three ways out of downtown and crossing Lady Bird Lake on a new bridge. The board picked the Stacy Witbeck-Sundt joint venture Austin Rail Constructors in February 2026; the first trains are due in 2033 and the cost is put above $8.2 billion.

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• Semiconductors06/15/2017@ThePinGang

  Micron provides updates on GDDR5X and GDDR6 development

  Micron

  

  Starts 03/31/2018UNVERIFIED77% CONFIDENCE8.5 years ago

  16Gbps GDDR5X speeds achieved. On track for GDDR6 mass production in Q1 2018.

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• Transport09/20/2026@BuildDesk

  Inglewood Starts Building Its Downtown Transit Hubs for 2028

  Market Street at Florence Avenue, Inglewood, CA 90301City of Inglewood

  

  Starts 10/01/2026DELAYED9 months late40% CONFIDENCEin 8 daysThe City's release says only "Construction begins this fall," so the pin uses the start of that autumn.^[1]

  The rephased Inglewood Transit Connector begins with three mobility hubs holding more than 1,000 parking stalls, event-day bus lanes, a rebuilt Market Street and a pedestrian bridge over Florence Avenue to the Metro K Line station, all due by 2028. The automated people mover it grew out of is deferred, with the right-of-way preserved at Market and Manchester.

  $261M

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• Semiconductors06/15/2017@ThePinGang

  Tri-band Wi-Fi chips for multi-gigabit streaming coming from Qualcomm

  Qualcomm·…

  

  03/02/2015 - 03/15/2015CONFIRMED76% CONFIDENCE11.6 years agoHappened as dated, per arstechnica.com^[1]: "…Gig.” The Snapdragon 810 is expected to ship in the first half of 2015. Qualcomm did not disclose fi…"

  Qualcomm announced that it completed the purchase of Wilocity and will soon deliver "a family of tri-band platforms that combine Qualcomm Atheros, Inc.ís Wi-Fi and WiGig solutions to significantly increase performance and enable cutting-edge wireless applications. The initial tri-band platform is a reference design based on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 810, which is the worldís first mobile platform designed to support WiGig." The Snapdragon 810 is expected to ship in the first half of 2015.

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• Transport09/11/2026@ThePinGang

  Gordie Howe International Bridge Opens

  Detroit, Michigan

  

  Starts 07/27/2026CONFIRMED93% CONFIDENCE58 days agoStated as firm, per en.wikipedia.org^[1]: "…ridge tolls. Construction of the bridge was completed in June 2026, inaugurated on July 24, 2026, an…"

  A 853-metre cable-stayed span over the Detroit River, the longest in North America, carrying the busiest US-Canada trade corridor. Estimated date.

  $6.4B

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• Transport09/11/2026@ThePinGang

  Brightline West Las Vegas to Los Angeles

  Las Vegas, NevadaBrightline

  

  Starts 12/01/2028ESTIMATED63% CONFIDENCEin 2.2 yearsGiven as a target, not a fixed date, per the pin description: "…e high-speed line down the I-15 median, aiming to run Las Vegas to Rancho Cucamonga in about two hou…"

  A 350 km/h private high-speed line down the I-15 median, aiming to run Las Vegas to Rancho Cucamonga in about two hours. Estimated date.

  $21.5B

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• Transport09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  UPS Completes $1 Billion Expansion of Worldport to 5.2 Million Square Feet

  Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport, Louisville, KY, USAUPS

  

  Starts 04/30/2010ESTIMATED70% CONFIDENCE16.4 years agoNo source gives an exact completion date. UPS's own first-quarter release of 27 April 2010 (the pin's reference) says the second phase of the Worldport expansion opened during the quarter, while PARCEL Industry (28 April 2010) and Wikipedia place the completed expansion in April 2010. Dated to the last day of April 2010 as an estimate; the previous 2010-04-27 was the press release date.^[1]

  UPS finished a second, roughly $1 billion expansion of its Worldport air-freight hub in Louisville, Kentucky, adding 1.2 million square feet and lifting the total footprint to 5.2 million square feet. The upgrade raised the hub's sorting capacity by 37%, to 416,000 packages an hour.

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• Marine09/20/2026@BuildDesk

  The Houston Ship Channel's Project 11 Widening Finishes

  Houston Ship Channel, Galveston Bay reach near Morgans Point, TexasPort Houston

  

  Starts 12/31/2029ESTIMATED63% CONFIDENCEin 3.3 yearsPort Houston's project page describes "expediting the process to complete the work in 2029", a year rather than a day, so it sits at the end of that year.^[1]

  Project 11 widens the channel by 170 feet along its Galveston Bay reach, from 530 to 700 feet, and deepens upstream segments to 46.5 feet so the largest container ships can pass one another. Dredging began in 2022; Port Houston finished its own segments in October 2025 and the US Army Corps of Engineers is completing the rest, with the spoil building bird islands, marsh and oyster reef.

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• Semiconductors06/21/2017@ThePinGang

  GLOBALFOUNDRIES will jump directly from 14nm to 7nm

  GLOBALFOUNDRIES·…

  

  Starts 03/30/2018CONFIRMED79% CONFIDENCE8.5 years agoHappened as dated, per hexus.net^[1]: "…xf Add to My Vault: GLOBALFOUNDRIES has announced that it plans to power straight through to 7nm Fin…"

  Tech expected to be ready for chip designers in H2 2017, production in early 2018. It will skip "the marginal performance and power benefits for the high cost of the 10nm process node" to hopefully become a leading differentiated 7nm chip fabricator ahead of major rivals.

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• Semiconductors06/15/2017@ThePinGang

  Broadcom doubles Wi-Fi performance for smartphones and tablets with new combo chip

  Broadcom·…

  

  Starts 09/03/2014CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE12.1 years agoHappened as dated, per wpcentral.com^[1]: "Your membership journey starts here. Keep exploring and earning more as a member. La…"

  Broadcom announced a new Wi-Fi and Bluetooth combo chip today that the manufacturer claims will double wireless networking performance of high-end smartphones and tablets. The hardware vendor claims that users spend an estimated four to five hours everyday on Wi-Fi, and that with the new chipset, they will be able to download and stream content twice as fast as current-gen devices and with less lag.

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• Architecture08/29/2017@ThePinGang

  Apple Confirms Plans to Build Data Center in Iowa, Contribute Up to $100M to Community Projects

  Apple·…

  

  Starts 12/31/2020CONFIRMED87% CONFIDENCE5.7 years agoHappened as dated, per macrumors.com^[1]: "…ction on the data center is expected to start early next year, with plans to bring it online in 2020…"

  Apple today announced plans to build a 400,000-square-foot data center in Waukee, Iowa, which will provide backend infrastructure for the App Store, Siri, Apple Music, iMessage, and other Apple services in North America. The facility, which it says will create over 550 construction and operations jobs in the Des Moines area. Authority reportedly approved a deal on Thursday that will give Apple $208 million in state and local tax breaks to construct two data centers near Des Moines. Apple will reportedly buy 2,000 acres of land for the project, allowing for future development in the area.

  $1.3B

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• Energy06/21/2017@ThePinGang

  Amazon to install solar systems on 50 fulfillment facility rooftops worldwide by 2020

  Amazon

  

  Starts 01/01/2020CONFIRMED83% CONFIDENCE6.7 years agoHappened as dated, per the pin description: "…The initial solar projects planned for completion by the end of 2017 will generate up to 41 megawat…"

  The initial solar projects planned for completion by the end of 2017 will generate up to 41 megawatts (MW) of power at Amazon facilities in California, New Jersey, Maryland, Nevada and Delaware. Depending on the specific project, time of year and other factors, a solar installation could generate as much as 80 percent of a single fulfillment facility’s annual energy needs.

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