DEEP TECH
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01/01/2021
France Develops National Quantum Strategy
France strengthens its quantum technology efforts through national strategy elements and increased public investment around 2021–2022.
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Deep Tech
APPLE
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11/12/2020
TSMC’s 5nm Node: Full EUV, the M1, and Apple Leaving Intel
TSMC's 5nm node put EUV across a full process for the first time and built the Apple M1, ending Intel's hold on the Mac,…
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5G
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05/19/2020
MediaTek’s Helio Years: Flagship Flop to Gaming Pivot (2015 to 2019)
By early 2016, HTC, Xiaomi, and Lenovo had all quietly walked away from the same chip. MediaTek’s Helio X20 was supposed to be the…
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5G
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04/08/2020
Rakuten Mobile Built the Network Everyone Called Impossible
An e-commerce company just switched on a national mobile network, fully virtualized Open RAN on commodity servers, in the middle of a pandemic. The…
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CHIPS & AI
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11/15/2019
SMIC 14nm: China Climbs the FinFET Cliff
SMIC 14nm was China's first homegrown FinFET, architected by Liang Mong Song and built for Huawei, proving SMIC could do leading-edge engineering at last.
4 MIN
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CHIPS & AI
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09/15/2019
Intel 10nm: The Node That Lost the Lead
Intel 10nm arrived four years late after the 14nm purgatory, and in the delay TSMC passed Intel for good. The node where Intel lost…
3 MIN
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CHIPS & AI
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08/07/2019
Samsung 7nm EUV: Betting Early on Extreme Ultraviolet
Samsung 7nm EUV produced the Exynos 9825, the first commercial chip built with extreme ultraviolet lithography, as Samsung raced TSMC into the EUV era.
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5G
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02/25/2019
O-RAN’s Open Fronthaul Spec Answers the Hard Question
A year ago I said a press release with five logos does not lay fiber. The first Open Fronthaul specification just landed at Barcelona,…
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CHIPS & AI
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09/18/2018
TSMC’s 7nm Node: The A12, AMD’s Bet, and a Field of Two
TSMC's 7nm node shipped the first 7nm chip in the A12, anchored AMD's comeback against Intel, and watched GlobalFoundries quit the leading edge, leaving…
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5G
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02/27/2018
O-RAN Alliance: The Two Open-Network Camps Just Merged
AT&T and China Mobile just co-founded the same alliance. The xRAN Forum and the C-RAN Alliance are merging into the O-RAN Alliance, and the…
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5G
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07/14/2016
MediaTek’s Turnkey Empire: Feature Phones, Shanzhai, and the Acquisition Machine (2006 to 2015)
Give a workshop in Shenzhen, one of MediaTek’s complete phone kits, the chip already sitting on a reference board with the firmware and test…
5 MIN
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5G
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06/15/2016
xRAN: The Bet That the Base Station Becomes Software
A Stanford professor and two tier-one operators just launched a forum to turn the radio access network into open software running on ordinary servers.…
3 MIN
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CHIPS & AI
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10/15/2015
SMIC 28nm: The Hard Wall Before the Leading Edge
SMIC 28nm reached volume in 2015, four years late after a long yield struggle, just as the leading edge moved to FinFET and left…
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DEEP TECH
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01/01/2015
Early Quantum Startups Emerge in France
Quantum startups begin appearing in France in the mid-to-late 2010s as research translates into early commercial efforts in computing and communication.
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AI
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01/01/2015
AI Research and Momentum Build Through the 2010s
France strengthens its AI position through sustained research output, startup activity, and corporate programs that align in the mid-2010s.
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