CPU overclockers hit a ceiling, and it happened about 17 years ago
The golden age of overclocking has long passed
Samsung on cloud nine after 933% Q1 profit jump, thanks to AI wave
The generative AI craze brought about a surge in memory chip prices, benefiting Samsung
Resellers are enabling China to access Nvidia AI chips via Dell and Supermicro servers, despite US restrictions
China keeps finding ways to get its hands on Nvidia AI chips
Intel's Foundry financials and what it needs to turn things around
We got pretty close guessing Intel Foundry's numbers
Russia's primary chipmaker is struggling with a defect rate of about 50 percent
Sanctions have crippled Baikal's production and packaging capabilities
OpenAI wants to develop its own AI processors, looks to UAE for funds
The firm has been in talks with a number of investors seeking as much as $7 trillion
Samsung wants to bring chips with glass substrate to the market, and fast
Next-generation substrate technology would provide significant improvements
Apple's Car was powered by a custom chip that was equivalent to four M2 Ultras
The Apple Car project was canceled after a decade of development
Jensen Huang: Even if competitors' AI products were free, Nvidia's chips would still be better value
Jensen "Humble" Huang
A hot potato: Nvidia has become the dominant force in the AI hardware industry, and CEO Jensen Huang knows it. The leather jacket-loving boss is so confident in the ability of his products, he says that even if the competitors' chips were free, they would still be a worse option than Nvidia's expensive alternatives.
Samsung and Arm are collaborating on next-gen Cortex-X CPU cores
The partnership will see the two companies work together to optimize Cortex-X cores for gate-all-around transistors
How Arm results set the world on fire
The company's valuation is pushing into "Priced for Perfection" territory
Samsung reports its lowest yearly profit in the last 15 years
But the company is optimistic about 2024
South Korean company smuggled $11.6 million worth of US-made chips into China
The operation ran for three years
World's biggest extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV) supplier grew 30 percent in 2023
Company forecasts 2024 to be a transition year before returning to full growth in 2025
Researchers develop world's first functioning graphene semiconductor
Breakthrough could eventually lead to terahertz processors
AMD stock reaches almost unprecedented value thanks to AI chip demand
AMD's business is going strong, and shareholders could be even happier in 2024
Nvidia surges while Samsung slides: Gartner highlights 2023 semiconductor movers and shakers
The memory segment was hit hard in 2023
Opinion: Is anyone going to make money in AI inference?
The market for AI edge inference may not monetize well for the semiconductor vendors
TSMC working towards a future with trillion-transistor chips, 1nm-class manufacturing
It says its monolithic designs could reach 200 billion transistors by 2030
A 2nm-capable wafer fab will come with a $28 billion tag, up to 50% more costly than 3nm
The costs of producing 2nm chips
Qualcomm claims Snapdragon X Elite Arm SoC is faster than Apple's M3
The yet-to-materialize SoC is beating the competition by a wide margin
Arm and RISC-V: Can there only be one?
Most see these two as a winner-take-all, zero-sum contest
Nvidia contemplates Intel as potential manufacturing partner for GPU and AI chips
The company would love to add a third major manufacturing partner
Researchers say future Intel, AMD and Arm chips at risk from SLAM attack
Chip makers believe that their current systems are adept enough to protect users
Apple shows off state-of-the-art lab where its homegrown silicon is designed and developed
Apple silicon is widely credited for the success of iPhone and Macs in recent years