Industry Hardware TSMC unveils A16 manufacturing process for 1.6nm chips in challenge to Intel's claims Intel previous said it would overtake TSMC in making the world's fastest chips By Rob Thubron, April 25, 2024, 6:56 AM
Hardware Industry Chips manufactured in the US and Germany will cost more, TSMC says TSMC aims to maintain margins with overseas chip production By Alfonso Maruccia, April 22, 2024, 12:51 PM 9 comments
Apple Mobile Apple iPhone 17 Pro could be the first phone with TSMC's 2nm chip The iPhone 17 series is expected to arrive in 2025 By Kishalaya Kundu, April 12, 2024, 8:43 AM 8 comments
Hardware Industry Intel's Foundry financials and what it needs to turn things around We got pretty close guessing Intel Foundry's numbers By Jonathan Goldberg, April 10, 2024, 6:15 AM
Industry TSMC to receive $11.6 billion from US under CHIPS Act, will build third Arizona plant Creating tens of thousands of more jobs By Rob Thubron, April 8, 2024, 10:47 AM 9 comments
Industry Hardware Massive 7.4-magnitude earthquake strikes Taiwan, threatens tech supply chain Recent events have exposed the fragility of the tech supply chain By Shawn Knight, April 3, 2024, 10:46 AM
Hardware Industry Intel plans to spend $100 billion on US chip manufacturing plants Chipzilla's ambitions go way beyond the US CHIPS Act By Alfonso Maruccia, March 21, 2024, 1:46 PM
Hardware Industry TSMC founder foresees the need for up to 10 new fabs for AI chip manufacturing The AI boom will spur unprecedented demand, says Morris Chang By Alfonso Maruccia, February 29, 2024, 9:45 AM
Hardware Industry Intel details iGPU specs and process nodes for Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake CPUs Both are slated to debut later this year By Kishalaya Kundu, February 23, 2024, 12:14 PM
Hardware Industry Nvidia faces potential shortage of next-gen Blackwell GPUs amid high demand As it is, the company has to take pains to make sure it is allocating its current lineup of AI chips fairly By Erika Morphy, February 23, 2024, 7:37 AM 10 comments
Hardware Industry TSMC earns $69.3 billion in 2023 becoming world's largest semiconductor company by revenue TSMC outperforms Samsung and Intel for the first time ever By Zo Ahmed, February 6, 2024, 2:58 PM
Industry Hardware Nvidia turning to Intel Foundry Services to expand GPU and AI chip capacity Intel's packaging solution is different than TSMC's, and the technology will require a new validation process By Alfonso Maruccia, February 1, 2024, 1:56 PM 8 comments
Industry SK Hynix looks to Indiana for advanced chip packaging plant SK Hynix could help boost US chip independence By Shawn Knight, February 1, 2024, 12:30 PM
Hardware Apple Apple is first in line for TSMC's 2nm chip supply First 2nm chips could debut in the iPhone 17 Pro in 2025 By Shawn Knight, January 25, 2024, 1:47 PM
Industry Hardware TSMC prepares for 1nm production as price hikes drive most semiconductor industry growth Plans indicate rising Asia-Pacific tensions don't scare the company By Daniel Sims, January 25, 2024, 7:38 AM
Explainer: What is Chip Binning? 34 FEATURE By Nick Evanson, January 18, 2024, 11:50 AM TechSpot Hardware #TBT You just bought a new CPU and it seems to run cool, so you try a bit of overclocking. The GHz climbs higher. Did you hit the silicon jackpot? You've got yourself a binned chip. But what's that exactly?
Hardware Industry TSMC working towards a future with trillion-transistor chips, 1nm-class manufacturing It says its monolithic designs could reach 200 billion transistors by 2030 By Erika Morphy, December 30, 2023, 12:06 PM 9 comments
Industry Hardware Intel CEO claims 18A node will at least match TSMC's N2 performance and beat it to market TSMC thinks N3P will outperform 18A, but Intel will introduce gate-all-around first By Daniel Sims, December 22, 2023, 5:29 PM 11 comments
Hardware Industry TSMC's 2nm process node could debut with the iPhone 17 Pro in 2025 The A17 Pro in the iPhone 15 Pro is built using TSMC's 3nm process node By Kishalaya Kundu, December 13, 2023, 9:23 AM
Industry Hardware The chip foundry industry is in great shape, and TSMC keeps leading the way Intel is in the top 10 for the first time By Alfonso Maruccia, December 7, 2023, 1:29 PM
Industry Electronics A new Arizona fab will provide chip packaging services for Apple chips Arizona-based company Amkor is joining Cupertino for "made in US" microchips By Alfonso Maruccia, December 1, 2023, 1:48 PM
Hardware AI TSMC chairman: Nvidia will become the world's largest semiconductor company by year's end The AI hype train is driving the GPU company to new heights By Alfonso Maruccia, November 27, 2023, 2:38 PM
Industry German subsidies for new chip manufacturing plants could be in jeopardy Billions of euros could vanish because of a court decision By Alfonso Maruccia, November 24, 2023, 1:55 PM 13 comments
Hardware Gaming Nvidia RTX 5000 graphics cards to offer DisplayPort 2.1 and PCIe 5.0 support, built on TSMC 3nm node Let's hope Nvidia improves its pricing policy By Rob Thubron, November 19, 2023, 8:34 AM 43 comments
Hardware Mobile Socionext is working with TSMC on a 2nm Arm chiplet for data centers A power-optimized Arm CPU for HPC and hyperscale applications By Alfonso Maruccia, October 26, 2023, 1:49 PM