Industry Hardware Commerce secretary warns of deep recession if the US loses access to Taiwan-made chips A potential scenario if China ever invades Taiwan By Rob Thubron , July 21, 2022, 9:35 AM 37 comments
Industry TSMC increases revenue forecast in sign that demand is better than feared Some welcome good news from the tech industry By Rob Thubron , July 14, 2022, 6:55 AM
Hardware Industry Chip shortage may be coming to an end, TSMC is still king Slowing demand sees wave of chip order cancellations By Adrian Potoroaca , July 8, 2022, 12:50 PM 22 comments
Hardware Industry Nvidia might want to cut 5nm TSMC orders for RTX 4000 series as demand cools Apple and AMD are also scaling back wafer orders as economy stutters By Rob Thubron , July 1, 2022, 7:37 AM 24 comments
Hardware TSMC to cease building capacity for nodes older than 28nm Company says it's time to leave 40nm and 65nm By Daniel Sims , June 30, 2022, 7:29 AM
Hardware Industry TSMC announces a handful of 3nm process nodes, N2 coming in 2025 Five N3 nodes in three years By Tudor Cibean , June 17, 2022, 11:02 AM
Industry TSMC plays down economic concerns, predicts 30% sales increase this year "...inflation has no direct impact on the semiconductor industry" By Rob Thubron , June 8, 2022, 7:03 AM
Industry Hardware Economist says China must seize TSMC if the US tightens sanctions Could overreliance on Taiwan's chip industry prove costly? By Rob Thubron , June 7, 2022, 7:35 AM 65 comments
Industry Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger visited Samsung to discuss potential collaboration Wide-reaching potential By Shawn Knight , May 31, 2022, 1:32 PM
Hardware Apple Apple's upcoming A16 chipset might stick to the 5nm TSMC process node A new MacBook Air might keep using the current M1 chip, too By Tudor Cibean , May 30, 2022, 2:44 PM
Industry Hardware Taiwan controls almost half of the global foundry capacity, other governments racing to build more fabs locally Better late than never By Tudor Cibean , April 26, 2022, 8:42 AM 27 comments
Hardware Industry TSMC says 2nm chips will enter production in 2025 Meanwhile, 3nm will enter production this year By Isaiah Mayersen , April 17, 2022, 2:24 PM 28 comments
Industry Electronics TSMC says consumer demand for smartphones, PCs and TVs is slowing Rising production costs could be passed along to consumers By Shawn Knight , March 31, 2022, 2:53 PM 14 comments
Hardware Apple Apple has a game changer in its M1 UltraFusion Chip Interconnect Apple is setting a new benchmark in chip design By Sayak Biswas , March 12, 2022, 11:33 AM 41 comments
Hardware Industry TSMC had a record month in February and is on track for a record year The world's largest chip foundry is on a roll By Adrian Potoroaca , March 11, 2022, 11:52 AM
Hardware Industry Unplanned power outage at Taiwanese plant interrupts semiconductor production across the region 2022 just keeps adding fuel to the fire By Jimmy Pezzone , March 5, 2022, 6:45 AM 12 comments
Industry Hardware Arm, Intel, TSMC, AMD, Google and more industry leaders form the Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express (UCIe) standard Envisioning a future where you could use components with different designs from various fabs and create an SoC out of it By Joao Silva , March 2, 2022, 1:29 PM 8 comments
Hardware Industry TSMC R&D executive believes the chip shortage will last until 2024 We can't fast forward to the end of this crisis By Adrian Potoroaca , March 2, 2022, 9:41 AM 13 comments
Hardware Industry Nvidia reportedly spent $10 billion for a chunk of TSMC's 5nm manufacturing capacity Here's to hoping the RTX 4000 series won't be a paper launch By Adrian Potoroaca , February 21, 2022, 2:30 PM 35 comments
Hardware Industry TSMC's expansion to Arizona reportedly three months behind schedule Growing pains for the world's largest contract chipmaker By Adrian Potoroaca , February 15, 2022, 2:55 PM
Hardware Industry TSMC price hike expected to impact CPUs and graphics cards this year Not what we wanted to hear right now By Rob Thubron , January 19, 2022, 5:19 AM 15 comments
Industry TSMC reports record profits, will spend $44 billion on upgrading capacity in 2022 No crisis for TSMC By Rob Thubron , January 13, 2022, 7:51 AM
Industry Hardware TSMC founder: Pat Gelsinger doesn't have enough time to take Intel to the top Intel's CEO age limitation could thwart its ambitions (or not) By Rob Thubron , December 9, 2021, 5:15 AM 27 comments
Hardware Industry Next AMD Chromebook CPUs may use Samsung 4nm node Other companies expected to favor TSMC in the near term By Daniel Sims , December 8, 2021, 4:27 PM
Hardware Industry Nvidia might use TSMC's 5nm process node for upcoming GeForce RTX 4000 GPUs The new GPUs could be unveiled in the second half of 2022 By Adrian Potoroaca , November 30, 2021, 3:53 PM 23 comments