The industry everything else quietly runs on. I cover it from the fab up, process nodes and lithography and the foundry wars, plus the export controls now deciding who even gets to build what. This is the manufacturing and geopolitics side of silicon, kept deliberately apart from the chip-and-platform coverage.
MediaTek's Dimensity series, particularly the 9000 and 9300, revolutionized its flagship offerings by introducing advanced features like ray tracing and powerful AI capabilities, outpacing…
Explore how Google DeepMind's MathVerse and Intel's Ponte Vecchio represent two distinct paths in AI development—software reasoning and hardware optimization.
TSMC's 3nm node is FinFET's last stand: hard, expensive, and splitting into N3B and N3E, just as AI accelerators arrive to fight phones for…
The Xiaomi 12S Ultra features a groundbreaking one-inch Sony IMX989 sensor and a partnership with Leica, enhancing its camera capabilities. This approach aims to…
Samsung 3nm beat TSMC to gate-all-around with its MBCFET transistor, but poor yields and thin customers meant the world's first GAA node barely mattered.
Samsung 4nm built the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, which ran so hot Qualcomm moved the refresh to TSMC, where the same chip ran cooler.…
Between 2019 and 2021, MediaTek transformed from a budget chip supplier to the largest smartphone chip vendor by volume with its Dimensity 5G line.…
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…
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…
Samsung 5nm built the Snapdragon 888 and Exynos 2100, both running hot and throttling, just as TSMC's 5nm delivered Apple's cool, efficient M1.
The PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X share similar hardware, utilizing AMD components and SSDs for enhanced performance. However, they diverge in strategy: Sony…
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,…
Samsung 8nm built Nvidia's RTX 30 Ampere GPUs, a marquee win taken not on the leading edge but on price and capacity while TSMC…
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…
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.
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