…China's ability to buy EUV hardware is instrumental to any effort towards semiconductor manufacturing independence. EUV replaces DUV (Deep Ultraviolet Lithography) and is less efficient and more difficult to use by…
…The Tegra X1 chip inside the Switch is built on TSMC's 20nm planar process node, not its newer FinFET 16nm node. Even if Nintendo skips TSMC's 16nm altogether, we'll…
…Chipworks is only counting the cores as part of the GPU, whereas the full Pitcairn die contains memory controllers, audio processing blocks, video encode/decode hardware, the PCIe 3.0 bus interface…
…Desktop discrete GPUs are a good example of hardware typically manufactured on "G" silicon. LP silicon is designed to minimize leakage current and runs at a lower speed. Chips built on LP…
…Now that ARM will be a US company, access to ARM hardware and IP is a chip the US government could potentially wield at the negotiating table. Conversely, any move by a…
There's good news for AMD in the Steam Hardware Survey numbers, and they appear to reflect increased uptake of the company's gaming CPUs. We say "appear" because it's never…
…The press pays a great deal of attention to TSMC and GlobalFoundries's production at their leading nodes, but that's only a small component of their business. TSMC's figures for…
…can't just double its asking price because its hardware is in demand. It isn't necessarily getting more fab space at TSMC (for NV) or GlobalFoundries (for AMD) because 14nm fab…
…to wait and see how OEMs price the cards and whether they ship hardware with higher clock speeds. TSMC's 14nm process is presumably mature enough now that we might see slightly…
…It's possible that Apple could reveal an A7 SoC in March, based on some kind of 28nm process ( perhaps in association with TSMC ), but unlikely. The iPad Mini 2 is probably…