Hardware Industry TSMC R&D executive believes the chip shortage will last until 2024 We can't fast forward to the end of this crisis By Adrian Potoroaca, March 2, 2022, 9:41 AM 13 comments
Hardware Industry Intel unveils technology roadmap through 2024, Raptor Lake is coming later this year Investor meeting highlighted several upcoming generations of processor technology By Jimmy Pezzone, February 19, 2022, 11:14 AM 26 comments
Hardware Industry TSMC's expansion to Arizona reportedly three months behind schedule Growing pains for the world's largest contract chipmaker By Adrian Potoroaca, February 15, 2022, 2:55 PM
Hardware Industry EU outlines plan to boost European chip manufacturing Companies can soon tap into billions in funding and subsidies By Adrian Potoroaca, February 10, 2022, 11:05 AM
Hardware Industry Kioxia and Western Digital lose 6.5 exabytes of 3D NAND to contamination The companies' SSD prices could be affected By Rob Thubron, February 10, 2022, 5:18 AM 13 comments
Hardware Industry Unrelenting chip demand fuels GlobalWafers and Toshiba capacity expansions The semiconductor industry is getting ready to bake more chips By Adrian Potoroaca, February 7, 2022, 3:19 PM
Industry Intel to build $20 billion chip manufacturing facility in Columbus, Ohio "Our expectation is that this becomes the largest silicon manufacturing location on the planet" By Rob Thubron, January 21, 2022, 5:14 AM 12 comments
Hardware Industry TSMC price hike expected to impact CPUs and graphics cards this year Not what we wanted to hear right now By Rob Thubron, January 19, 2022, 5:19 AM 15 comments
Industry TSMC reports record profits, will spend $44 billion on upgrading capacity in 2022 No crisis for TSMC By Rob Thubron, January 13, 2022, 7:51 AM
Electronics Industry Adaptable transistors could reduce CPU transistor count by 85 percent Huge efficiency gains are possible By Shawn Knight, December 28, 2021, 2:30 PM 10 comments
Industry Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger reaffirms belief that the chip shortage will last until 2023 We're in this for the long haul By Rob Thubron, December 20, 2021, 7:11 AM 19 comments
Industry Hardware Intel is setting aside over $2 billion to give to its employees About $20,000 per employee By Isaiah Mayersen, December 18, 2021, 12:34 PM 50 comments
Hardware Apple Apple is assembling a new team to bring more wireless chips in-house Apple wants to lessen its dependence on outside component suppliers By Shawn Knight, December 17, 2021, 2:41 PM
Industry Intel set to spend $7 billion on new chip facility in Malaysia A long-term investment that will lessen reliance on Taiwan By Rob Thubron, December 14, 2021, 5:18 AM 10 comments
Hardware Industry Chipmakers are expected to spend $146 billion on capacity expansions this year Some of that capacity will be brought to the US By Adrian Potoroaca, November 29, 2021, 2:12 PM
Hardware Industry TSMC has received $4 billion from clients to reserve future manufacturing capacity And to create more manufacturing capacity By Isaiah Mayersen, November 20, 2021, 9:41 AM 17 comments
Hardware Industry The White House reportedly discouraged Intel from making more silicon wafers in China Government officials expressed concerns about potential security issues By Adrian Potoroaca, November 16, 2021, 1:21 PM 13 comments
Hardware Intel powers on its first 14th-gen Meteor Lake CPU prototype For the first time in years, they're running on schedule By Isaiah Mayersen, October 24, 2021, 10:45 AM 20 comments
Hardware Industry ASML's next-gen EUV machine will give Moore's Law a new lease of life The march of progress in semiconductors is far from over By Adrian Potoroaca, September 30, 2021, 8:52 AM 22 comments
Electronics Industry Chipmakers and electronics manufacturers can't find enough skilled workers Cherry on top of the chip and materials shortage cake By Adrian Potoroaca, September 23, 2021, 2:20 PM 33 comments
Apple Wearable Tech Apple has ironed out Watch Series 7 manufacturing issues Mass production will start next week By Adrian Potoroaca, September 10, 2021, 9:50 AM
Hardware Industry CPU and GPU prices set to increase amid TSMC wafer price hike Unrelenting demand is causing chipmakers to raise prices By Adrian Potoroaca, August 25, 2021, 2:47 PM 38 comments
Hardware Industry Intel Foundry Services wins Pentagon contract for US-made chips A boost to Intel's plan to compete with TSMC and Samsung By Daniel Sims, August 23, 2021, 7:11 PM 10 comments
Hardware Industry Companies shifting production away from China are facing major challenges in Vietnam Reshoring is hard, but moving away from China is even harder By Adrian Potoroaca, August 19, 2021, 5:26 PM 53 comments
Hardware Industry Intel lays out multi-chip architecture plans: 12th-gen Core, GPUs, next-gen datacenter SoC, and more Also Windows 11 optimizations via "Thread Director" By Bob O'Donnell, August 19, 2021, 8:00 AM 12 comments