TSMC’s 20nm Node: The Last Planar Process and the Apple A8
TSMC's 20nm node won the Apple A8 but proved planar scaling had stalled: double patterning made it costly with no power win, and 16nm…
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TSMC's 20nm node won the Apple A8 but proved planar scaling had stalled: double patterning made it costly with no power win, and 16nm…
Google Cardboard and Samsung's Gear VR turn the phone into a VR headset, putting virtual reality in millions of pockets and hinting at the…
Intel 14nm arrived late in Broadwell, the first schedule slip in a decade. The node was still the best in the world, but the…
The EUV light source is the hardest problem ASML has ever owned. Inside the tin-plasma source, the power climb, and why EUV keeps slipping…
Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon 810 and 808 this week, and the most revealing thing in the spec sheet is what is missing. There is…
Facebook buys Oculus for $2 billion and Sony reveals Project Morpheus, and VR goes from Kickstarter darling to the most fought-over idea in tech…
CES 2014 belongs to the wrist, with fitness bands and the first real smartwatches everywhere, while 4K grows up and Android moves into the…
Eighteen point seven million phones this year, the fifth-biggest brand in China, and the company just poached the vice president of product management for…
The Sony Xperia Z Ultra, powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 800, outperformed competitors with impressive benchmarks. This chip's advancements offer substantial performance, including 4K video…
Samsung 28nm built the 64-bit Apple A7 and its Cyclone core, the chip that blindsided Qualcomm and the whole industry, just as Apple prepared…
The Oculus Rift DK1 ships and Google Glass hits Explorers, splitting the face-worn future into two camps: immersive VR and lightweight AR.
Qualcomm takes Microsoft's old CES keynote slot with the wild Born Mobile show, and the Snapdragon 800 underneath turns Qualcomm into a real brand.
The ASML Customer Co-Investment Program has Intel, TSMC, and Samsung buying equity to fund EUV, while ASML buys Cymer to own the light source.…
The Snapdragon S4, launched in February, integrates a custom dual-core Krait CPU and LTE modem on a single chip, enhancing efficiency. Qualcomm's innovative design…
Palmer Luckey's Oculus Rift Kickstarter revives virtual reality on cheap phone screens and low-latency tracking, and for the first time in 20 years I…