Intel adds AI and mass-market twists to 18A node
Chipzilla’s CEO Lip-Bu Tan leans into realism
Troubled Chipzilla is stretching its long-promised 18A process into two new variants aimed at feeding the AI beast and mainstream punters.
TSMC chickens out of high-NA EUV for A14
Bets on old-school lithography to dodge soaring costs
TSMC, once the trendy pioneer of bleeding-edge chipmaking, is now pulling a handbrake turn on high-NA EUV adoption.
TSMC 2nm process defect rates lower than expected
New GAA chip tech impresses
TSMC claims its upcoming N2 manufacturing node is ahead of schedule on defect reduction, even though it is the company’s first attempt at gate-all-around (GAA) nanosheet transistor technology.
Nvidia rushes B300 AI chip production forward
New GPU plugs gaps left by banned H20 chips
Nvidia is pushing production of its new B300 AI chip forward to May, using Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing’s latest 5nm (N4P) process and CoWoS-L advanced packaging technology.
Huawei plots Nvidia AI replacement with Ascend chip
China’s tech champion aims to fill gaps left by US sanctions
Huawei is preparing to test its latest AI chip, the Ascend 910D, hoping it can challenge higher-end products from Nvidia as US restrictions batter the Chinese semiconductor industry.
TSMC unveils 9.5-reticle CoWoS packaging
Chip packaging just got absurdly massive
TSMC is pimping up its CoWoS (Chip-on-Wafer-on-Substrate) tech so that can cram an obscene amount of silicon into a single unit.
TSMC flashes 1.4nm tech
Big speed gains but no SPR for now
TSMC has rolled out its new A14 node, marking its first foray into the 1.4 nm-class manufacturing tech, and it’s already boasting serious gains in performance, power efficiency, and logic density.
Intel's Nova Lake CPUs to tap Taiwan’s 2nm
18A in awkward limbo
Troubled Chipzilla is set to source the compute tiles for its next-gen Nova Lake desktop CPUS from TSMC’s shiny new 2nm process, confirming what’s been murmured for months: its 18a node is not the chosen one yet.
TSMC can’t police where its chips end up
Export rules can’t keep China out of the AI loop
Taiwan’s semiconductor overlord, TSMC, has admitted there’s no foolproof way to keep its advanced chips out of China’s hands, despite tightening US export controls and a looming tariff storm.
TSMC smashes Q1 targets
Smartphone slump no match for AI’s server appetite
TSMC has kicked off 2025 by smashing revenue targets, thanks to ravenous demand for AI silicon—even as mobile chip orders fell flat.