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.
The Kirin 9050 Pro is the first chip built on Huawei's LogicFolding: two active silicon layers bonded face to face by 50 million vertical…
Bull has secured a €387.8 million contract to build LUMI-AI, a EuroHPC supercomputer set for 2027. Notably, it uses AMD chips to diversify from…
Nvidia is putting $3.5 billion into MediaTek convertible bonds, and the real story isn't the investment, it's MediaTek building its next hyperscaler chips on…
OpenAI's Jalapeño chip has shown promising benchmark results, outperforming Nvidia's Blackwell system in power efficiency and response speed. Despite concerns over the independence of…
Adreno Neural Fusion adds AI matrix units to Qualcomm's GPU a year after Apple and level with Arm, but the 18MB of HPM is…
Starting September 1, the Switch 2 price increase takes the console from $449.99 to $499.99, and Nintendo is the last of the big three…
SK Hynix has initiated construction on a $4 billion factory in Indiana, intended for advanced memory chip packaging and AI semiconductor research. However, actual…
Z.ai confirmed it built Ox Alpha, now rebranded GLM-5.3-Flash, and claims the model runs entirely on 100,000 domestically made chips. The company won't say…
The MATCH Act would strip ASML of its remaining DUV sales to China and bar it from servicing machines already installed there. It's riding…
GrapheneOS plans to support the Pixel 11 series despite speculation that Google's Tensor G6 lacks hardware memory tagging (MTE), which raised security concerns. The…
Nvidia's AI server prices are set to increase by over 15 percent due to surging memory costs from suppliers like Samsung and SK Hynix.…
Apple introduced its M6 chip, a 2-nanometer component, in the new $899 Mac mini, marking a surprising launch sequence. The chip features a 12-core…
Seven. That’s how many generations of Google’s Tensor Processing Unit Amir Salek shipped before he left in 2022, and it matters more than his…
Samsung's upcoming Exynos 2700 reportedly outperforms Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 in several benchmarks, notably in multi-core CPU performance. This enhancement is attributed…
Xiaomi launched three chips at once: the Xring O3 with a ten-core all-big-core CPU and no efficiency cores, an O100 AI accelerator using hybrid…
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