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 Samsung is raising chip fabrication prices to finance new foundries It's hard to blame them By Isaiah Mayersen, July 31, 2021, 11:29 AM
Hardware Industry Intel's planned comeback: 10nm production now surpassing 14nm, 7nm remains a work in progress The company will reveal its process roadmap on July 26 By Adrian Potoroaca, July 24, 2021, 7:56 AM 39 comments
Hardware Industry Samsung's 3nm process might be coming next year, but not for everyone The case of the missing process node By Matthew Lee, July 11, 2021, 1:45 PM
Hardware Industry Global shortage of chips is getting worse, with no sign of supply catching up The supply chain might not recover until 2023 By Adrian Potoroaca, March 24, 2021, 7:47 AM 26 comments
Apple The Web Someone put Apple's M1 chip inside of an iMac It works surprisingly well despite a few drawbacks By David Matthews, March 3, 2021, 6:41 PM 9 comments
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
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Hardware AMD has reportedly hired Samsung, GlobalFoundries to co-produce its next chips By Shawn Knight, December 22, 2015, 5:45 PM 8 comments
Electronics Mobile Samsung researchers almost double the life of smartphone batteries By Dieter Holger, June 29, 2015, 9:30 AM 19 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