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Apple to stick with 5nm at TSMC for A16 Bionic chip
Published in Mobiles


A16 Bionic might bring only minor improvements

According to a fresh rumor, it appears that the new A16 Bionic chip from Apple will have to stick to the same 5nm manufacturing process, bringing just minor improvements.

Nvidia spends $10 billion to secure 5nm supply
Published in PC Hardware
Tuesday, 22 February 2022 12:39

Nvidia spends $10 billion to secure 5nm supply


TSMC cashes in

The graphics card maker named after a Roman vengeance daemon, Nvidia is spending $10 billion to make sure that TSMC makes its 5nm node design chipsets.

Apple unveils the M1 Pro and M1 Max SoCs
Published in Mobiles
Tuesday, 19 October 2021 13:25

Apple unveils the M1 Pro and M1 Max SoCs


Big chips for big performance

During its announced Apple Mac keynote, the company has announced a new line of MacBook Pro devices, as well as two new SoCs that will power those devices, the M1 Pro and the M1 Max.

Do nanometers matter?
Published in PC Hardware
Thursday, 25 June 2020 11:00

Do nanometers matter?


Analysis:
Interesting marketing that works

I have been around to vividly remember 350 nm and the first Pentium and AMD K5/K6 processors, and since that time, I have tracked the microprocessors and GPU market. It went swiftly from 350 to 250nm and later to 180, 130, 90, 65, 45, 32nm, and 14nm. It took some ten significant geometry shrinking and power reductions to get to 10nm and even to get to 7nm. Apple, in collaboration with TSMC, is just months away from announcing 5nm chips, but the real question is, do nanometers matter?

Apple announces its silicon
Published in Mobiles
Wednesday, 24 June 2020 11:21

Apple announces its silicon


Analysis:
Takes two years to transition

Apple has finally announced the beginning of a two-year transition towards its own silicon. The first systems based on Apple silicon will be shipping later this year.

This year's Zen 3 is not 5nm
Published in PC Hardware
Friday, 05 June 2020 10:24

This year's Zen 3 is not 5nm


Zen 4 to go to the next node

Digitimes, VideoCardz, and RetiredEngineer (twitter) started an intriguing rumor that Ryzen 4000 might end up at 5nm+. Asking around at a reliable place, we have to disappoint some of you as this won't be the case. The Ryzen 4000 series based on Zen 3 core is still at 7nm.

ARM Cortex A78 to power 2021 phones
Published in PC Hardware
Tuesday, 26 May 2020 14:59

ARM Cortex A78 to power 2021 phones


20 percent faster 5nm optimized

The next generation of phones mostly expected in early 2021, will come powered by Cortex A78 new core. The new Cortex A78 will improve performance by up to 20 percent in the same power envelope.

TSCM to build 5nm Fab in Arizona
Published in News
Monday, 18 May 2020 09:33

TSCM to build 5nm Fab in Arizona


Conditio sine qua non

After weeks of speculation, TSMC has officially confirmed that Taiwan based TSMC announced its intention to build and operate an advanced semiconductor fab in Arizona, United States.

Nvidia GA100 is a high-performance AI
Published in Graphics
Friday, 08 May 2020 10:36

Nvidia GA100 is a high-performance AI


TSMC 7nm, next-gen Hopper 5nm

There have been rumors for quite some time about the Nvidia Ampere and the manufacturing nod. Nvidia’s first AI-based solution comes from TSMC, while some GPUs will be manufactured by Samsung too.

The Apple 2021 notebook chip is A14X iPad based
Published in Mobiles


Modified

Bloomberg has rekindled news that Apple has been working on its own chip, and many covered the news claiming that 2021 iPads will get an iPhone chip. Well, they won't as it would not be that powerful to put a 2W TDP chip in a notebook, and instead, the modified version of A14X iPad chip will find its place to the Macbooks of the future. We got a few details confirmed.