Just as costs for some components have started to come down, TSMC and Samsung, the two largest contract chip manufacturers in the world, are reportedly planning to increase prices of production, which may affect Nvidia, AMD, Apple, and others that rely on...
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) told its clients to expect a price increase of between 5% and 9% in 2023, according to Taiwanese industry sources speaking to DigiTimes. The alleged increase will apply to both TSMC's advanced and mature ...
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) told its clients to expect a price increase of between 5% and 9% in 2023, according to Taiwanese industry sources speaking to DigiTimes. The alleged increase will apply to both TSMC's advanced and mature ...
Qualcomm, the global innovator in wireless technology, introduced Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 at the end of last year. It turned out to be the company's best performing mobile platform to date. Up until now, almost all major smartphone companies have launched...
Japan and the United States have agreed to close cooperation to advance 2nm semiconductor process development and mass production. A report published by the Nikkei financial newspaper says that Japan's Koichi Hagiuda, Minister of Economy, Trade, and ...
Intel is considering manufacturing its 14th Gen Core "Meteor Lake" CPUs at least partly using TSMC's 5nm process to mirror Apple's M1 series of chips, DigiTimes reports.Announced last year, Intel's Meteor Lake chips will be its fi...
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. recently confirmed that Apple used its InFO_LI packaging method to build its M1 Ultra processor and enable its UltraFusion chip-to-chip interconnect. Apple is one of the first companies to use InFO_LI technology.When...
Source: Rich Edmonds / Windows CentralWhat you need to knowTSMC's founder and former CEO Morris Chang believes that efforts to manufacture semiconductors in the United States will be a "very expensive exercise in futility."Chang pointed to ...
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. is set to start high volume production of chips using itsN2 (2 nm-class) process technologyin late 2025 and deliver the first batch of these chips in early 2026. According to two media reports and sources with...
Audio player loading The founder of Taiwanese chip foundry TSMC has described attempts to ramp up manufacturing capacity in the United States as an exercise in futility.Speaking at an event hosted by the Brookings Institution, Morris Chang said he be...
As sales of chips are expected to total 427.7 billion units this year, semiconductors manufacturers are aggressively expanding production capacity and buying new equipment. Demand for lithography tools is so strong that ASML, the world's largest make...
Taiwan's Liberty Times revealed today that TSMC has considerably relaxed requirements for Taiwanese residents interested in pursuing a career in the company's stateside operations. In a headline, it jokes that those with just a high school diplo...
TSMC has, for the first time in what seems like forever, achieved higher revenues from consumer and professional chips in the HPC (High Performance Computing) market segment compared to those destined for smartphones. That's probably due in part to t...
Audio player loading Major chip producer TSMC seems to be on target to start production of its 3nm chips later this year, which is good news for Apples next-generation processors.A new DigiTimes Asia report states that the company is set to manufactu...
Intel is currently executing its plans for the successful development of five nodes across four years in an aggressive roadmap leading into measurement in Angstrom is sometimes referred to as "Intel Accelerated."Scotten Jones, president and owne...
When Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company first confirmed the development of its N2 (2 nm-class) fabrication process in 2020, it did not disclose many details about the node or say when it intends it was set to enter production. This week, the...
Virtually all modern electronic devices use chips. Simplistic devices like kettles use maybe one or two integrated circuits (ICs), complex devices like PCs or cars use hundreds or thousands. As the world adopts new devices, sales of ICs expectedly se...
Image: AMDAMD gave us only a sneak peek of the Radeon RX 6500 XT and RX 6400 when the chipmaker revealed the desktop graphics cards at CES earlier this year, but now that they are officially available—for what will likely be an extremely short time...
Image: NvidiaGraphics cards are practically impossible to purchase these days due to the ongoing chip shortage, but that’s not stopping Nvidia. The company reportedly plans to announce its GeForce RTX 40-series GPUs sometime next year.AdvertisementW...
In our rapidly changing world demand for various chips is high. So high that foundries can increase their quotes without fearing to lose customers. But TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.) stands apart from its rivals. TSMC has more capacity...