Canon plans to barrel its way onto ASML’s turf
Undercutting the Dutch
Canon plans to price its new chipmaking gear at a fraction of the cost of ASML Holding NV's best lithography machines.
Intel starts high-volume EUV Intel 4 production in Ireland
Big win for Europe
A moment ago, Intel´s CEO Pat Gelsinger announced the start of high-volume manufacturing on the Intel 4 process technology at Fab 34 in Leixlip, Ireland.
Huawei learns how extreme ultraviolet lithography works
China no longer depends on Dutch or US tech
Huawei is now able to create chips using extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV) which means that it finally has a foot in the door of serious chip development.
New flagship graphics cards about to get faster Samsung GDDR6 memory
Speeds up to 24Gbps
The South Korean giant has announced its newer flagship GPUs are about to get 16Gb GDDR6 memory which can manage up to 24Gbps with the wind behind it.
ASML "High-NA" version of EUV prototype ready
A new $400 million machine will become flagship
ASML which makes the other chip-making gear that chipmakers depend on is rolling out a new prototype machine which it hopes will be its new flagship.
Late 2019, early 2020 high-end mobile chips will be 7nm
Huawei, Qualcomm, Apple
TSMC has announced that it is doing a test production of 5nm EUV chips, but real production starts in 2020. A long-term investigation leads us to believe that most chips launching in the latter part of this year or early next year will, unlike the UK, remain on 7nm.
Samsung develops EUV-based 5nm process nodes
Chips are 25 percent smaller and 20 percent more power efficient
Samsung has announced that it has completed development of a 5nm semiconductor process using its extreme ultraviolet (EUV) technology.
TSMC’s EUV-based process netting big customers
Mobile World Congress will show the depth of its success
The Mobile World Congress is expected to show how well TSMC’s EUV-based process is doing at attracting customers.
Samsung is building 7nm Snapdragon 5G chipset
ULV for the first ever 7nm chip
Cristiano Amon told us not so long ago that Samsung and Qualcomm are now big friends and allies, and confirmed that Samsung will be working with Qualcomm on current and future phones. Now, both companies have announced that Snapdragon 5G chipset will be using Samsung’s 7nm LPP EUV process.
Qualcomm 7nm made by TSMC
The one after Snapdragon 845
Korean based Etnews has mentioned that Qualcomm 7nm manufacturing has been a big win for TSMC while two other US and China customers chose Samsung’s 7nm. TSMC traditionially have dibs on Nvidia and MediaTek too.