Semiconductor industry: chip design, fabs, TSMC, Intel, NVIDIA, and global supply chain.
Between 2019 and 2021, MediaTek transformed from a budget chip supplier to the largest smartphone chip vendor by volume with its Dimensity 5G line.…
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 France 2030 investment plan channels significant public resources into strategic technologies including semiconductors, AI, and energy transition.
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…
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,…
Samsung 8nm built Nvidia's RTX 30 Ampere GPUs, a marquee win taken not on the leading edge but on price and capacity while TSMC…
By early 2016, HTC, Xiaomi, and Lenovo had all quietly walked away from the same chip. MediaTek’s Helio X20 was supposed to be the…
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…
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…