TSMC 2nm orders pile up as AI boom fuels demand
Chipmaker has 15 customers, most chasing high-performance computing
TSMC’s 2nm process is pulling in orders at a cracking pace, with senior management at wafer inspection outfit KLA letting slip that 15 customers have already signed up. Ten of them are gunning for high-performance computing, showing just how much the AI craze is fattening demand for Intel and Samsung's rival.
Former Intel board members call for Chipzilla to go private
US government and big tech should carve up struggling giant
Troubled Chipzilla should be taken private, stripped apart, and rebuilt into a proper foundry and design house, according to four long-serving former directors writing in Fortune.
Intel needs a chainsaw, not a plaster
Nvidia’s cash will not fix Intel’s mess without a split
Troubled Chipzilla scored a temporary win when Nvidia lobbed it a $5 billion bone, but if Intel thinks that is enough to crawl back into relevance, it is dreaming, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Nothing else matters
London start-up hauls in $200 million to take aim at Apple and Samsung
London outfit Nothing has pulled in $200 million (€186 million) in fresh funding to keep chipping away at the global smartphone duopoly of the Fruity Cargo Cult Apple and Samsung.
Qualcomm slaps ‘Gen 5’ badge on Snapdragon 8 Elite
Tries to make sense of naming mess
Qualcomm is about to wheel out its next flagship mobile platform at the Snapdragon Summit, and it has decided to call it Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5.
Qualcomm readies Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
Galaxy S26 gets overclocked monster at 4.74 GHz
Qualcomm is about to unleash its Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 which it claims will be the fastest mobile chip on the planet.
Trump’s stake deal was all about locking Intel into foundry
Real countries have fabs
Intel has been strong-armed into holding on to its bleeding foundry business after Donald Trump’s administration tied subsidies to an equity grab.
Qualcomm slaps satellite on new smartwatch chip
Snapdragon W5 Gen 2 adds safety tricks but not much grunt
Qualcomm has refreshed its smartwatch silicon after three years, but anyone hoping for a serious performance leap will have to keep waiting.
Qualcomm wants Wi-Fi 8 to work when everything goes wrong
No more dropped packets, roaming flops, and latency hell
Qualcomm is leading a new crusade to make Wi-Fi suck less in the real world.
TSMC wants more for less with 2nm node
Job's Mob and chums face 50 per cent higher costs for next-gen wafers
Taiwanese foundry giant TSMC is cranking up its 2nm node production, and by 2026 it plans to be pumping out 60,000 wafers a month from four fabs running at full tilt.