Qualcomm's acquisition of Atheros for $3.1 billion expands its control over smartphone components, combining cellular and short-range radios. With the upcoming custom Krait CPU…
SMIC 45nm was the company's most current node yet, reached two years behind the leaders, the year after SMIC turned its first profit since…
China Mobile's research institute wants to empty every cell tower, pull the baseband back into one central pool, and turn the radio network into…
Intel 32nm arrived on schedule with second-generation high-k metal gate and Intel's first immersion lithography, extending a two-year lead while the company quietly ceded…
SMIC 65nm arrived in November 2009, the week TSMC won its trade-secret case, took a stake of up to 10 percent, and founder Richard…
TSMC's 40nm node turned immersion lithography into a yield crisis in 2009, choked AMD and Nvidia GPU supply, drew Morris Chang back as CEO,…
Intel 45nm shipped the first high-k metal gate transistor in volume, hafnium dielectric and metal gates built gate-last on dry 193nm litho, solving gate…
Paris Region clusters Cap Digital and Systematic turn policy into structured collaboration that accelerates digital and deep tech innovation.
SMIC 90nm put the Shanghai foundry two nodes behind the leaders and closing, climbing alone on imported tools and hired talent while the settled…
France sustains world-class quantum research through CNRS, universities, and INRIA during the 2006–2015 period, building deep technical capability.
France launches competitiveness clusters in the mid-2000s that organize collaboration between research, industry, and government around digital and deep tech.