Intel 7 renamed the 10nm node, Alder Lake brought Intel back, and Gelsinger's IDM 2.0 turned the company that disdained foundry work into a…
The O-RAN Alliance, founded in 2018 by AT&T and China Mobile, has shifted discussions from cost and vendor independence to sovereignty concerns. As governments…
SMIC N+1 is a 7nm-class node built without EUV, after the 2020 Entity List cut SMIC off from the one machine the industry uses…
France sees growing activity in deep tech and climate-related technologies as policy support and investor interest align with technical capabilities.
France strengthens its quantum technology efforts through national strategy elements and increased public investment around 2021–2022.
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,…
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…
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…
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.
Intel 10nm arrived four years late after the 14nm purgatory, and in the delay TSMC passed Intel for good. The node where Intel lost…
Samsung 7nm EUV produced the Exynos 9825, the first commercial chip built with extreme ultraviolet lithography, as Samsung raced TSMC into the EUV era.
A year ago I said a press release with five logos does not lay fiber. The first Open Fronthaul specification just landed at Barcelona,…
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…
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…
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…
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