Huawei says folding chips in 3D routes around US sanctions. One month later IBM showed a validated 0.7nm nanostack, going further on better tools.…
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…
Samsung 5nm built the Snapdragon 888 and Exynos 2100, both running hot and throttling, just as TSMC's 5nm delivered Apple's cool, efficient M1.
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,…
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…
Intel 10nm arrived four years late after the 14nm purgatory, and in the delay TSMC passed Intel for good. The node where Intel lost…
Samsung 7nm EUV produced the Exynos 9825, the first commercial chip built with extreme ultraviolet lithography, as Samsung raced TSMC into the EUV era.
TSMC's 7nm node shipped the first 7nm chip in the A12, anchored AMD's comeback against Intel, and watched GlobalFoundries quit the leading edge, leaving…
TSMC's 10nm node shipped the Apple A11 in volume while Intel's 10nm stalled, the moment the leading edge you could actually buy moved to…
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