Semiconductors – Pagina 15

1 Gennaio 1970Tecnologia

US gov’t warned Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Tim Cook, and Lisa Su that China could invade Taiwan by 2027 — Apple CEO reportedly said he sleeps ‘with one eye open’

A new investigative report from The New York Times reveals that, in July 2023, senior US intelligence officials privately briefed some of […]

1 Gennaio 1970Tecnologia

Inside Google’s TPU V8 strategy, delivering two chips for two crucial tasks at incredible scale — network scales up to 1 million TPUs per cluster, an advantage over Nvidia AI accelerators

Google announced its eighth-generation Tensor Processing Units at Cloud Next on April 22, shipping two distinct chip designs for the first time […]

1 Gennaio 1970Tecnologia

UK company shoots a 1000-degree furnace into space to study off-world chip manufacturing — semiconductors made in space could be ‘up to 4,000 times purer’ than Earthly equivalents

A team from Cardiff, Wales, is experimenting with the feasibility of building semiconductors in space, and its most recent success is another […]

1 Gennaio 1970Tecnologia

China to increase leading-edge chip output by 5x in two years, report claims — aims to lift 7nm and 5nm production to 100,000 wafers per month, targeting half a million monthly by 2030

China’s leading chipmakers are working hard to increase the output of chips made using leading-edge process technologies by five times in two […]

1 Gennaio 1970Tecnologia

Apple reportedly strikes deal for Intel to make some of its chips — two tech giants reached a preliminary agreement for Intel to make processors for Cupertino

Sources close to both Apple and Intel have said that the two companies have reached a preliminary agreement for Intel to manufacture […]

1 Gennaio 1970Tecnologia

Intel patent reveals new XBM memory architecture that ditches HBM’s costly silicon interposer — backend-transistor DRAM stack uses UCIe links and built-in repair to ease AI’s memory bottleneck

An Intel patent application published on July 2, 2026, surfaced by Underfox, has revealed the company’s plans for a new high-bandwidth memory […]

1 Gennaio 1970Tecnologia

U.S. allows TSMC to import chipmaking equipment to its China fabs — Samsung, SK hynix likewise receive go signal from Commerce Department

The U.S. Department of Commerce has issued a permit to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) to import U.S.-made chip-making equipment into China […]

1 Gennaio 1970Tecnologia

Intel Foundry boss leaves for Qualcomm — Naga Chandrasekaran takes charge of the unit

In an unexpected turn of events, Kevin O’Buckley, the head of Intel Foundry, decided to jump ship for Qualcomm after just two […]

1 Gennaio 1970Tecnologia

Elon Musk wants to build a dirty 2nm chipmaking fab that you can smoke and eat cheeseburgers in — bets that Tesla will turn the concept of cleanrooms upside down

Elon Musk this week said that the chipmaking industry builds cleanrooms in the wrong way. The head of Tesla and SpaceX promised […]

1 Gennaio 1970Tecnologia

China’s top chip execs claim ASML alternative ‘small, fragmented, and weak’ — Chinese industry titans call for national effort to invest in advanced chipmaking tools

China’s most senior semiconductor executives issued a public call this week for a consolidated national effort to build a domestic alternative to […]