Intel’s reception of a preliminary $8.5 billion award under the U.S. CHIPS and Science Act in March 2024 marked one of the most significant…
Samsung’s decision to build its most advanced U.S. semiconductor fab in Taylor, Texas, is one of the defining FDI stories of the 2020s. The…
TSMC’s Arizona Fab 1, officially known as the Phoenix fab complex, represents one of the most consequential foreign direct investments in U.S. history. The…
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 7nm shipped in the Huawei Mate 60 Pro's Kirin 9000S, a DUV-built chip that proved export controls could not cap China at 14nm.…
MediaTek's Dimensity series, particularly the 9000 and 9300, revolutionized its flagship offerings by introducing advanced features like ray tracing and powerful AI capabilities, outpacing…
TSMC's 3nm node is FinFET's last stand: hard, expensive, and splitting into N3B and N3E, just as AI accelerators arrive to fight phones for…
Samsung 3nm beat TSMC to gate-all-around with its MBCFET transistor, but poor yields and thin customers meant the world's first GAA node barely mattered.
Samsung 4nm built the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, which ran so hot Qualcomm moved the refresh to TSMC, where the same chip ran cooler.…
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…
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.
Xiaomi shipped 46.5 million phones in a quarter, growing 45% year over year, becoming the third-largest smartphone maker due to US sanctions on Huawei.…
The PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X share similar hardware, utilizing AMD components and SSDs for enhanced performance. However, they diverge in strategy: Sony…
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,…
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