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.
CATL Qilin vs BYD Blade compared across chemistry, cooling, energy density, safety, and market share in this 2026 technical breakdown.
Jetson Thor owns the humanoid robot; Qualcomm Dragonwing is fighting for the high-volume middle. The 2026 edge robotics compute split, broken down.
Mistral AI sells intelligence through models and APIs, Cerebras sells raw compute through wafer-scale silicon. A no-nonsense breakdown of two very different AI revenue…
Qualcomm's Dragonwing IQ10 packs an 18-core Oryon CPU, up to 700 TOPS, a safety island, and dense sensor I/O. A voice-driven architecture deep dive,…
The USB Power Delivery (PD) 3.1 introduced a significant advancement by increasing power capacity from 100W to 240W through new voltage levels. This change…
The post details the rapid advancement of AI from 2023 to 2026, highlighting significant investments, partnerships, and innovations in infrastructure, robotics, and consumer devices,…
In 2026, storage prices are rising due to DRAM and NAND shortages, pushing some companies toward failure. Most brands are assemblers rather than manufacturers,…
Renesas, Microchip and Ceva are pushing AI inference onto microcontrollers at milliwatt budgets. Inside the TinyML architecture war for the volume edge.
All LoRa chips are produced by Semtech, which acquired Cycleo's technology and established the LoRaWAN protocol. This ecosystem, primarily driven by utilities and smart…
The evolution of edge AI processing from the Myriad 2's 100 gigaflops to the Dragonwing Q-8750's 77 TOPS illustrates a shift towards powerful, local…
The AI revolution began in 2015 with foundational developments like TensorFlow and the transformer model. By 2022, ChatGPT brought widespread attention to AI, leading…
SMIC EUV does not exist and under current rules never will, and that single absence is the wall that decides whether China's foundry can…
Intel 14A uses High-NA EUV and may not be built at all unless outside foundry customers commit, the node where Intel Foundry either becomes…
How Qualcomm's Foundries.io, Edge Impulse, Arduino and Augentix buys add up to a full-stack edge AI platform, and where the strategy could break.
Intel 18A brings RibbonFET and PowerVia backside power to Panther Lake, a genuine leadership feature, just as the CEO who bet everything on it…