SMIC in 2005: The Bet That the Door Would Stay Open
In 2005, SMIC, China’s semiconductor champion, faced a dramatic journey, building advanced fabs with foreign technology while accumulating losses. Despite early successes and optimism…
In 2005, SMIC, China’s semiconductor champion, faced a dramatic journey, building advanced fabs with foreign technology while accumulating losses. Despite early successes and optimism…
"Fix this code" triggered the Fable 5 export ban. Security researcher Katie Moussouris, the only external expert to read the Amazon report, says no…
Over 75 data center projects worth $130 billion were blocked in Q1 2026 alone, matching all of 2025 in three months. The bottleneck is…
Commodore is back in the phone business, and the actual story is the operating system. The Callback 8020 runs Sailfish OS, made in Helsinki…
SMIC EUV does not exist and under current rules never will, and that single absence is the wall that decides whether China's foundry can…
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 18A brings RibbonFET and PowerVia backside power to Panther Lake, a genuine leadership feature, just as the CEO who bet everything on it…
France's AI narrative predates ChatGPT, rooted in foundational research and state-supported initiatives since 2006. Recent advancements, exemplified by Mistral, establish France as a key…
Google just released Gemini 2.0, and the question nobody is asking is the right one. The model is 20% better at reasoning benchmarks than…
The comparison between Apple's iOS 18 with Apple Intelligence and Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite highlights a key architectural difference. Apple's system relies on cloud…
Meta released Llama 3.2 with vision and audio models, and everyone is missing the real story. This is not just a feature upgrade. This…
Meta's Llama 3.2 is a multimodal model that runs locally on mobile devices or in your own data center with no API dependency. The…
Jolla Russia is a closed chapter. The two-year separation from Open Mobile Platform finally completed in June 2024, costing Jolla its largest revenue source…
DuckDuckGo's new setting lets users turn off AI summaries. It is a positioning move that proves sometimes differentiation comes from subtraction.
SMIC 5nm means leading-edge logic on DUV at punishing cost, driven by China's need to build Huawei's Ascend AI chips after the US banned…