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…
TSMC's 16nm FinFET delivered the first 3D transistor the 20nm shrink withheld, drew level with Intel on structure, and split the Apple A9 with…
Intel 14nm arrived late in Broadwell, the first schedule slip in a decade. The node was still the best in the world, but the…
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Intel 22nm shipped Tri-Gate in Ivy Bridge, the first FinFET in volume production, three years ahead of the foundries, with Intel promising 14nm next…
TSMC's 28nm node brought gate-last high-k metal gate just as every mobile chip designer arrived at once, triggering a capacity crunch, while Intel's Tri-Gate…
SMIC 45nm was the company's most current node yet, reached two years behind the leaders, the year after SMIC turned its first profit since…
Samsung 45nm silicon built the Apple A4, Apple's first in-house chip, on the same Intrinsity Hummingbird core Samsung put in the Galaxy S, even…
Intel 32nm arrived on schedule with second-generation high-k metal gate and Intel's first immersion lithography, extending a two-year lead while the company quietly ceded…
TSMC's 40nm node turned immersion lithography into a yield crisis in 2009, choked AMD and Nvidia GPU supply, drew Morris Chang back as CEO,…
Recent SSD reviews highlight a common issue: brief stutters during use due to poorly designed controller chips, not the flash memory itself. Intel's new…
Intel 45nm shipped the first high-k metal gate transistor in volume, hafnium dielectric and metal gates built gate-last on dry 193nm litho, solving gate…
AMD's Barcelona quad-core chip has launched, but disappointing clock speeds around two gigahertz fall short of expectations and Intel's offerings. While its architecture promises…
TSMC's 65nm is ramping into volume in 2006. The real story isn't density, it's leakage, the rising cost of every node, and the foundry-model…
SMIC 90nm put the Shanghai foundry two nodes behind the leaders and closing, climbing alone on imported tools and hired talent while the settled…
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