In the past year, Europe has taken significant steps towards Open RAN, highlighted by a joint declaration from major operators like Telefónica and Vodafone.…
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…
The O-RAN Alliance, founded in 2018 by AT&T and China Mobile, has shifted discussions from cost and vendor independence to sovereignty concerns. As governments…
China Mobile will join forces with HP, Intel and MediaTek to collaborate on 5G-enabled PCs for the next-generation of connected modern PC experiences. Since…
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…
On January 14 the US Department of Defense added Xiaomi to its list of “Communist Chinese Military Companies,” and within a day it became…
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,…
Dear Xiaomi colleagues, August 16 marks the 9th and 10th birthdays for Xiaomi’s first smartphone and the first generation of MIUI operating system respectively.…
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.
TSMC's N7+ brought 7nm EUV into volume for the first time, ironically inside a Huawei chip, proving extreme ultraviolet in production ahead of full…
AT&T and China Mobile just co-founded the same alliance. The xRAN Forum and the C-RAN Alliance are merging into the O-RAN Alliance, and the…
Xiaomi shipped 9.2 million phones in India in a single quarter and just passed Samsung to become the country’s number-one smartphone brand. Samsung. In…
Xiaomi just put a 6.4-inch phone on stage that is almost entirely screen. The display covers 91.3% of the front, the highest screen-to-body ratio…
Give a workshop in Shenzhen, one of MediaTek’s complete phone kits, the chip already sitting on a reference board with the firmware and test…
SMIC 28nm reached volume in 2015, four years late after a long yield struggle, just as the leading edge moved to FinFET and left…
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