Qualcomm has announced its Snapdragon 7 Gen 4 (SM7750-AB) chipset as a direct successor to the Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 from 2023. Snapdragon 7 Gen 4 features an updated Kryo CPU with a 1+4+3 configuration. There’s a prime core clocked… Read more ›
MediaTek has announced the Dimensity 9400e, a new chipset in the company’s flagship Dimensity family. The 9400e sits below the 9400 and the 9400+ models, and is essentially a rebranded 9300+ from 2024 with minor changes. The Dimensity 9400e has… Read more ›
Samsung Foundry is allegedly coordinating detailed plans with Qualcomm to produce a 2nm mobile application processor (AP). The product under discussion is Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite 2 Gen2. While TSMC plans to manufacture it on its 3nm process starting in… Read more ›
Following the recent U.S. export restrictions on Nvidia H20, Huawei appears poised to fill the gap in China’s AI chip market. The company is allegedly to begin mass shipments of its Ascend 910C as early as May 2025. Huawei’s 910C… Read more ›
Google has outlined 3 benefits that quantum computing will unlock in the coming decades. The first benefit that Google says quantum computers are expected to deliver is drug discovery, leading to better health outcomes. With the technology, researchers will be… Read more ›
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) allegedly could face a penalty of USD1B or more to settle a U.S. export control investigation over a chip it made that ended up inside a Huawei AI processor. The U.S. Department of Commerce has… Read more ›
TSMC has invested billions into its facilities in the United States, including its active Arizona chip foundry and a second facility due in 2028. TSMC is preparing to start operations at its second Arizona plant by 2028, which will be… Read more ›
Loop Capital analyst Ananda Baruah has said that Apple is in the process of placing orders for about USD1B in Nvidia GB300 NVL72 systems. That equates to about 250 servers at USD3.7M-4M each. Apple is working with server builders Dell… Read more ›
Samsung is reportedly reviewing a plan to transfer the Exynos chip unit from the LSI division to the mobile experience (MX) division. This is the unit responsible for Samsung Galaxy phones, tablets, watches, and more. However, there is “significant internal… Read more ›
TF Securities analyst Ming-chi Kuo reports that Apple is working on a “refreshed C1” for 2026, which support mmWave. The current C1 supports sub-6GHz 5G only. It consists of a 4nm or 5nm baseband, 7nm low-frequency transceivers, 7nm also for… Read more ›
Intel may allegedly split its chip business, with Intel and TSMC participating and operating it together. While the United States provides subsidies for the Chip Act, TSMC will help strengthen Intel’s 2nm and 3nm advanced processes. Tristan Gerra, an analyst… Read more ›
Arm Holdings reportedly plans to launch its own chip in 2025 after securing Meta Platforms as one of its first customers, in a major shift to the chip tech provider’s model of licensing its blueprints to other companies. Rene Haas,… Read more ›
The DeepSeek R1 LLM (large-language model) was trained on Nvidia H100 but uses an Huawei Ascend 910C chip for inference, which is the action of using the trained model to generate responses. However, the Ascend 910C’s relatively lower performance limits… Read more ›
Samsung Electronics has announced a significant reduction in its foundry division’s facility investment for 2025, cutting the budget by more than half compared to the previous year. Samsung Foundry has set its facility investment budget at around KRW5T for 2025,… Read more ›
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has begun producing advanced 4nm chips for U.S. customers in Arizona, according to Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo. In Nov 2024, Commerce finalized a USD6.6B grant to TSMC’s U.S. unit for semiconductor production in Phoenix, Arizona.… Read more ›
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is stepping up its efforts to expand its CoWoS (Chip on Wafer on Substrate) advanced packaging capacity with plans to double its monthly capacity to 75,000 wafers by 2025. This ambitious objective comes amid heightened… Read more ›