Chip articles

ASML says AI's effect on chipmaking will unfold over the next 10 to 15 years, not overnight

Crystal ball: ASML is the only company that makes the EUV lithography machines needed to produce the world's most advanced chips. Its CEO, Christophe Fouquet, says the AI boom will play out over 10 to 15 years and that we're only seeing the tip of the iceberg. Meeting that demand will depend on better optics, vertical chip designs and a sprawling supplier network that can't be scaled up quickly. That makes ASML's roadmap a useful gauge of how far AI hardware can go, and how fast.

One of the first Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 495 PCs costs $7,399 and comes with 192GB of unified memory

Google is launching AI chips into space to see if they survive up there

Qualcomm's new chips show how AI agents are tying together phones, laptops, and earbuds

Apple could return to the server market with M8 Ultra hardware and Nvidia networking

MediaTek goes all-in on flagships with its first 2nm smartphone chip

SK Hynix eyes Intel's Ohio fabs for US memory production

Samsung is working with OpenAI on next-generation chips while deploying ChatGPT at massive scale

Apple says new A20 Pro chip can sustain twice the performance of the iPhone 16 Pro, deliver 40% faster graphics

Xiaomi takes another shot at Qualcomm and MediaTek with its 3nm flagship Xring O3 chip

Intel confirms Crescent Island GPU will pack 32 Xe3P cores and up to 480GB of memory

IBM is building a dual-architecture mainframe chip that will run Arm and Z software on the same cores

Intel says Nova Lake, its next major CPU architecture, is coming to desktop PCs before servers

Samsung says Claude Code can cut chip design work from weeks to days, but it still makes serious mistakes

Apple's A20 Pro production is going smoothly, except DRAM supply is bottlenecking iPhone assembly

Ripple effect: In the run-up to the launch of the foldable iPhone Ultra, iPhone 18, and iPhone 18 Pro, Apple and its assemblers are working to secure enough mobile DRAM. Apple leans heavily on Micron for these chips and also buys from SK Hynix and Samsung. People involved say they still expect to meet initial demand, but they worry online wait times could stretch and store inventory could run out quickly if the shortage continues.

Google plans to produce up to 15 million AI chips by 2028, rivaling Nvidia's total accelerator volume

Samsung is locking in five-year chip deals as AI demand shows no signs of slowing

Samsung lands Broadcom AI chip deal worth more than $200 billion through 2030

Qualcomm's chip price hikes could make phones, wearables, and laptops even pricier

Intel's Starfire SoC combines 18A CPU, Intel 3 GPU, and NPU for space-grade computing

AMD's Zen 6 Epyc chip packs 256 cores, promises up to 1.7x faster AI

First look: AMD will give its first public look at Epyc Venice CPUs this month, showcasing the new Zen 6 architecture at the Advancing AI 2026 summit in San Francisco on July 22. The demonstration will highlight performance for AI workloads, with AMD claiming a major speed increase over current Epyc chips.

Apple is reportedly skipping M6 Pro, Max, and Ultra chips to fast-track AI-focused M7 Macs

Samsung is building a dedicated AI chip for PCs, and HP and Lenovo are already testing it

Intel's troubled 18A chip process is finally running smoothly

IBM unveils sub-1-nanometer chip architecture that stacks 100 billion transistors onto a fingernail-sized processor