TSMC
TSMC 28nm chips are still profitable after 10 years
TSMC currently sells its 4 nm manufacturing process to chipmakers interested in cutting-edge processors for the flagship market. For instance, we have the MediaTek Dimensity …
TSMC controls 70% of global smartphone chip production
Counterpoint Technology Market Research has published the results of a study of the global market for the production of microchips for smartphone devices in the …
Apple Silicon A/M series chip supply chain faces further price hikes
According to Bloomberg, as supplier TSMC has to deal with additional costs, Apple chips may face further price increases. Japanese chemical company Showa Denko KK, which …
Samsung Already Started Production Of First 3nm Chips
Recently, TSMC announced when it is going to produce 3nm and 2nm chips. Immediately after that, Samsung, which is the closest rival of the Taiwanese …
TSMC to increase prices for its chips; smartphones will be more expensive in 2023
TSMC has determined that prices for most processes will increase by about 6 percent from January 2023. This increase will happen despite the recent concerns …
TSMC Kumamoto Factory gives Sony confidence amid chip shortage
Sony is one of the companies having certain trouble during the global shortage in the semiconductor industry. The company is having challenges trying to deliver …
TSMC plans to build more 3nm factories in Taiwan
TSMC is certainly collecting the spoils of another victorious year. The company is behind the most successful mobile chipsets in the market and has been …
TSMC: the first 3nm chips will come next year, 2nm chips by 2025
The Taiwanese Semiconductor Manufacturer Company (TSMC) is certainly in the lead of ARM-based chipset manufacturing. The company’s modern 4 nm process is now being used …
Russian Company Cancels Production Of Baikal-S Processors Because Of TSMC’s Refusal
Recently, we reported that Russia is actively working on its own chips. That’s not a secret that after its invasion of Ukraine, the US, many …
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1+ and Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 coming on May 20
The Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 Plus or Snapdragon 8 Gen1+, if you prefer, has been cycling through the rumor mill for months. Everything started when …
Samsung 3nm process may be put into production before TSMC
Samsung reveals in the latest briefing to investors that its 3nm process will start production in the next few weeks. If this comes to fruition, …
TSMC went to the United States to set up a factory because of subsidies
According to the Taiwan Economic Daily, TSMC founder, Zhang Zhongmou (Morris Chang), said in an interview recently that the United States is expensive, wasteful and …
TSMC chips won’t get cheaper
Analysts say that the global economic crisis has already begun. For many years, the economy of many countries grew due to debts and a stable …
TSMC announces launch dates for 3nm and 2nm chips
Chipmaker TSMC said it was ready to begin mass production of 3nm chips. It is planned to start mass production in the second half of …
Samsung & TSMC attributes heating issues to ARM design architecture
Over the past two years, Android flagship smartphones have been struggling with heating issues. The Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 had significant heating issues. Although the recent …
The end of Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 smartphones is near
The Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 represents an important step for Qualcomm. It marked the company’s entrance into the 4 nm territory, and also the debut …
US think tank suggests ‘poaching’ over 3,500 workers from TSMC & Samsung
A few days ago, the American think tank CSET estimated the chip manufacturing labor demand in the United States under the CHIPS Act, and whether …
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 exposed: to use a new foundry
A few days ago, popular tech blogger, @iceuniverse revealed that Qualcomm’s flagship processors in the second half of this year and next year will be manufactured …
How Russian Technologies Will Survive Without Chips?
Russia calls the war in Ukraine a “special operation”. Whatever it is called, many European countries headed by the US government announced comprehensive sanctions against …
Massive power outage in southern Taiwan could harm TSMC’s operations
An emergency shutdown of equipment at a coal-fired power plant in Kaohsiung in southern Taiwan, according to media reports, on Thursday led to power outages …