Five years ago, creating a 7nm-class chip without EUV was deemed irrational. SMIC achieved it, but claims about its N+3 node density remain unverified.…
JASM's Kumamoto fab reported a $29 million net profit in Q1 2026, rebounding from prior losses. This news, announced amidst production halts due to…
China's yuan-denominated integrated circuit exports surged 88.7% in early 2025, driven by global AI demand, though currency depreciation and outsourced assembly inflate figures. Despite…
China's first homegrown immersion DUV lithography tool order includes five machines this year and twenty next year. This development signals a shift in the…
Huawei recently unveiled its new laptop processors, Kirin X90 Plus and XE90, at a HarmonyOS event in China. The chips refine existing designs but…
As of July 2026, Samsung and SK hynix reconsider hybrid bonding for HBM4 due to JEDEC's potential increase in stack height limits. This change…
ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT), founded in 2016, rapidly increased its DRAM wafer production, targeting around 240,000 monthly by 2025. With strong political backing and…
Huawei's LogicFolding uses 1.5µm hybrid bonding to hit 238M transistors/mm² on 7nm DUV — redefining what packaging can do without EUV.
ASML from the Netherlands is the sole producer of advanced lithography machines essential for semiconductor manufacturing. xLight, led by Pat Gelsinger, aims to provide…
The article discusses the challenges faced by Chinese CPU companies due to reliance on foreign technology and sanctions. It outlines five key players navigating…
TSMC is raising prices across every node, even mature 7nm. Why this semiconductor cost reset is structural, what's driving it, and who bleeds most.
The ASML lithography monopoly is the most complete chokepoint in tech. High-NA in fabs, Hyper-NA ahead, China capped, one company holding it all up.…
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…
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…
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…