Samsung builds AI megafactory with 50,000 Nvidia GPUs
A "new age" of AI-driven manufacturing
Samsung has decided to throw everything it has at artificial intelligence, joining forces with Nvidia to build an AI megafactory packed with more than 50,000 of the graphics firm’s GPUs.
LPDDR5X price explosion as DRAM market tightens
Smartphone makers face rising costs as wafer supply shifts to AI chips
Prices for LPDDR5X, the low-power DRAM used in premium phones, are about to skyrocket.
Samsung gears up for 2nm and HBM4 mass production
Korean giant profits surge
Samsung is charging ahead into 2026 with plans to begin mass production of next-generation memory and chip technologies, including its long-awaited 2nm Gate-All-Around (GAA) process.
Samsung’s Exynos 2600 to outpace Qualcomm’s next flagship chip
2nm Exynos could give the Galaxy S26 a head start
Samsung’s next top-tier mobile processor, the Exynos 2600, is tipped to be built on the company’s own 2nm fabrication process, putting it ahead of Qualcomm’s upcoming Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, which is being produced on TSMC’s 3nm node.
TSMC not sweating Samsung chip push
Pegatron's Tong Zixian reckons Samsung and Intel are playing catch-up
Samsung might be bagging more US business, but Pegatron chairman Tong Zixian says Taiwan’s chip champ TSMC has nothing to worry about yet.
Samsung Exynos chips to get AI-powered satellite modems
NPU in the baseband could beam up with SpaceX satellites.
Samsung looks set to inject more AI into its upcoming Exynos chipsets, with reports claiming the company will embed a neural processing unit directly into the 5G modem.
Samsung’s 2nm Exynos 2600 still has yield issues
Industry doubts over Samsung’s ‘premature’ flagship chip
Samsung may have started mass production of its Exynos 2600 for the upcoming Galaxy S26 series, but the Korean giant’s 2nm GAA (gate-all-around) process still appears to be wobbling.
Job’s Mob hits speed bumps with its pricey foldable iPad
We have run out of innovation
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple’s grand plan to reinvent the iPad with an enormous foldable display is creaking under its own ambition.
TSMC 2nm price hike might push Qualcomm and Mediatek to Samsung
Intel off the table for now
Chipmaking behemoth TSMC has decided that its next shiny thing, the 2-nanometre wafer, will cost about 50 per cent more than the current 3-nanometre kit, and its biggest customers are not amused.
Nanya says DDR4 shortage is helping it rake it in
Memory factory finds profit in what others abandoned
The general manager of Nanya Technology, Li Peiying, reckons there’s still life in the old DDR4 market, especially now that the big players have moved on and left a gap wide enough to drive a lorry through.