AI
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01/22/2025
SK Hynix Records Profits: The Memory Maker Behind Every AI GPU
SK Hynix achieved record profits in 2024, with a net income of $1.3 billion in Q4 and $4.5 billion for the year, largely due…
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Semiconductors
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.
AI
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10/24/2024
Snapdragon 8 Gen 4: Qualcomm’s Full-Stack AI Platform Play
The Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 is not a mobile chip refresh. Qualcomm brings custom Oryon CPU architecture to phones for the first time, a…
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AI
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06/25/2024
AI Reasoning Gets a Real Boost, And What It Means for Developers
MIT's breakthrough in AI reasoning capabilities, Intel's 18A process node for AI workloads, and generative AI transforming drug discovery, three developments that signal a…
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AI
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06/23/2024
Qualcomm’s On-Device AI Bet Just Jumped From Your Phone to Your Laptop
Two weeks after Apple Intelligence and six days after the first Copilot+ laptops, Qualcomm's on-device AI bet spans phone and PC at once. The…
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AI
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06/13/2024
GPT-4 Turbo, MI300X, and Xeon 6: Three Layers of the AI Hardware Stack
GPT-4 Turbo ships measurably better reasoning. AMD MI300X brings 5.3 TB/s of memory bandwidth. Intel Xeon 6 argues the CPU still matters. Together they…
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CHIPS & AI
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06/04/2024
Intel 3: The First Node Built to Be Sold
Intel 3 marks a pivotal point in Intel's strategy, serving as its first foundry node designed for external customers. As the company aims to…
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AI
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05/27/2024
Your AI Revolution Is Waiting in a GPU Queue
Agentic AI, quantum computing, and biotech drug discovery are all racing for the same finite pool of data center silicon. The bottleneck is not…
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AI
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05/20/2024
SMIC 5nm: Pushing DUV Past Reason
SMIC 5nm means leading-edge logic on DUV at punishing cost, driven by China's need to build Huawei's Ascend AI chips after the US banned…
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AI
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04/25/2024
Gemini 1.5 Pro and the Million-Token Enterprise Play
Google Cloud's Gemini 1.5 Pro and Intel's new AI chips intensify cloud AI competition. Discover the latest in enterprise AI...
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CHIPS & AI
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12/14/2023
Intel 4: EUV Arrives a Decade Late
Intel 4 is the company's first EUV node, in Meteor Lake, finally adopting the lithography Intel refused at 10nm and that the foundries shipped…
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CHIPS & AI
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09/05/2023
SMIC 7nm: The Mate 60 Shock
SMIC 7nm shipped in the Huawei Mate 60 Pro's Kirin 9000S, a DUV-built chip that proved export controls could not cap China at 14nm.…
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5G
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07/28/2023
MediaTek’s Flagship Assault: The Dimensity 9000 to 9300 Era (2022 to 2023)
For years, the honest answer to whether you should care about a MediaTek flagship was no, because there wasn’t one worth the word. The…
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AI
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01/27/2023
DeepMind’s Math Reasoning and Intel Ponte Vecchio: The AI Stack Splits in Two
Explore how Google DeepMind's MathVerse and Intel's Ponte Vecchio represent two distinct paths in AI development—software reasoning and hardware optimization.
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AI
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12/29/2022
TSMC’s 3nm Node: FinFET’s Last Stand as AI Demand Arrives
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…
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CONSUMER TECH & HARDWARE
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07/04/2022
Xiaomi Took Leica From Huawei and Bolted a Full One-Inch Sensor to a Phone
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…
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