CHIPS & AI
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09/05/2014
Intel 14nm: The First Crack in the Metronome
Intel 14nm arrived late in Broadwell, the first schedule slip in a decade. The node was still the best in the world, but the…
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Deep Tech
APPLE
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04/09/2014
Qualcomm Dropped Its Own CPU to Answer Apple, and I Am Nervous About the Heat
Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon 810 and 808 this week, and the most revealing thing in the spec sheet is what is missing. There is…
4 MIN
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CHIPS & AI
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05/31/2012
Samsung 32nm: The Apple A5 and a Gate-First Gamble
Samsung's 32nm gate-first HKMG process die-shrank the Apple A5 in 2012 and powered Samsung's own Galaxy S III, deepening the foundry bond even as…
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CHIPS & AI
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10/17/2011
TSMC’s 28nm Node, Gate-Last HKMG, and the FinFET Clock
TSMC's 28nm node brought gate-last high-k metal gate just as every mobile chip designer arrived at once, triggering a capacity crunch, while Intel's Tri-Gate…
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CHIPS & AI
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07/12/2011
Qualcomm Just Spent $3.1 Billion on Wi-Fi and Promised to Build Its Own CPU
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…
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CHIPS & AI
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06/20/2011
SMIC 45nm: The Mature-Node Foundry Finds Its Floor
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…
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5G
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04/15/2010
C-RAN: China Mobile’s Radical Plan to Centralize the Network
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…
3 MIN
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CES
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01/07/2010
Intel 32nm: The Metronome at Full Speed
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…
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CHIPS & AI
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11/12/2009
SMIC 65nm and the Price of Catching Up
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…
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CHIPS & AI
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10/19/2009
TSMC’s 40nm Node: When Immersion Lithography Became a Yield Crisis
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,…
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CHIPS & AI
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11/12/2007
Intel 45nm: The High-k Metal Gate Breakthrough
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…
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DEEP TECH
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07/15/2006
Cap Digital and Systematic: France’s Clusters, One Year In
Paris Region clusters Cap Digital and Systematic turn policy into structured collaboration that accelerates digital and deep tech innovation.
3 MIN
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CHIPS & AI
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06/20/2006
SMIC 90nm: Climbing on Borrowed Knowledge
SMIC 90nm put the Shanghai foundry two nodes behind the leaders and closing, climbing alone on imported tools and hired talent while the settled…
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DEEP TECH
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02/13/2006
France Maintains Strong Quantum Research Foundations
France sustains world-class quantum research through CNRS, universities, and INRIA during the 2006–2015 period, building deep technical capability.
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DEEP TECH
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01/18/2006
Competitiveness Clusters Lay the Groundwork for French Tech
France launches competitiveness clusters in the mid-2000s that organize collaboration between research, industry, and government around digital and deep tech.
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