Hardware Industry Qualcomm, Google, and Microsoft aren't happy about Nvidia buying Arm Tech giants are worried about Nvidia gatekeeping Arm's tech By Adrian Potoroaca, February 16, 2021, 2:21 PM 47 comments
Mobile Hardware Leaked benchmarks show Samsung's unreleased SoC with Radeon graphics trounce Apple's A14 Bionic AMD's RDNA magic could be coming to your next smartphone By Adrian Potoroaca, January 30, 2021, 7:09 AM 27 comments
Hardware Industry Foundries look to GAAFET for new process nodes beyond 3 nm Moore's Law is almost dead By Adrian Potoroaca, January 26, 2021, 4:24 PM
Hardware Industry Qualcomm acquires chip startup Nuvia for $1.4 billion The silicon giant aims for compute dominance By Adrian Potoroaca, January 13, 2021, 2:27 PM
Hardware Industry TSMC is ending discounts and increasing wafer prices High demand after PC components and consoles will continue in 2021 By Adrian Potoroaca, December 17, 2020, 6:39 AM 15 comments
Industry Hardware Several EU countries join forces to bolster the region's semiconductor industry The new initiative hinges on $175 billion in funding By Adrian Potoroaca, December 9, 2020, 3:23 PM
Hardware Industry TSMC's board approves $3.5 billion investment towards a new factory in Arizona 5 nm made in the US... from 2024 By Adrian Potoroaca, November 12, 2020, 3:27 PM 35 comments
Apple Industry iPhone 12 may not meet holiday demand due to power chip shortfall Silicon suppliers are prioritizing Apple over competitors, sources say By Cal Jeffrey, November 5, 2020, 1:09 PM
Electronics Science Researchers develop silicon-hybrid anode for high-performance Li-ion batteries A combination of carbon nanotubes and mesoporous silicon made from the ash of barley husks By Cal Jeffrey, April 22, 2020, 1:06 PM
Science Electronics Researchers at Eindhoven have finally developed photonic silicon Chip-to-chip data transfer rates could increase 1,000 fold By Cal Jeffrey, April 13, 2020, 12:37 PM
Electronics Science A New Orleans startup wants to scale up silicon nanoparticle production for better lithium-ion batteries Using repurposed silicon from solar panels By Adrian Potoroaca, December 18, 2019, 6:09 AM
Hardware Industry Intel details future of chip design at Hot Chips 2018 SoC-like chiplets to dominate market By Paul Taylor, August 21, 2018, 8:47 PM 8 comments
News Around the Web Weekend tech reading: Driverless minibus in Dubai, building a PC for VR, 1 in 2 users click anything By Matthew DeCarlo, September 4, 2016, 12:00 PM
Hardware AMD has reportedly hired Samsung, GlobalFoundries to co-produce its next chips By Shawn Knight, December 22, 2015, 5:45 PM
Electronics Mobile Samsung researchers almost double the life of smartphone batteries By Dieter Holger, June 29, 2015, 9:30 AM 15 comments
Industry Electronics Researchers build one-atom-thick silicene transistor By Shawn Knight, February 5, 2015, 5:00 PM
Electronics Dissolvable silicon circuit boards, chips could dramatically reduce e-waste By Shawn Knight, October 10, 2014, 3:45 PM 9 comments
Hardware Intel's 14nm Skylake platform demoed, mass production scheduled for mid-2015 By Shawn Knight, September 9, 2014, 5:45 PM 8 comments
Electronics Science Cadmium arsenide behaves just as a 3D version of graphene would By Shawn Knight, June 4, 2014, 10:30 AM
News Around the Web Weekend tech reading: Chips after Moore's law, tech companies nearing death, CES highlights By Matthew DeCarlo, January 12, 2014, 10:36 AM
Industry World's first carbon nanotube computer emerges after years of work By Shawn Knight, September 26, 2013, 11:15 AM 13 comments
Industry Could negative resistance make graphene transistors feasible? By Shawn Knight, August 21, 2013, 5:30 PM
Hardware Industry New e-skin pairs flexible electronics with touchscreen technology By David Tom, July 22, 2013, 12:30 PM
Gaming AMD: We will have no problem supplying silicon for PS4, Xbox One By Shawn Knight, June 27, 2013, 2:00 PM 17 comments
Apple Mobile Intel CEO passed on the opportunity to power the original iPhone By Shawn Knight, May 17, 2013, 2:00 PM 9 comments