Samsung Electronics is facing its first worker strike in its 55-year history
Workers want more money, bonuses, and an extra day off
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AMD: Increasing compute efficiency by 30x is nice, but what about 100x?
CEO Lisa Su says the company is on course to dramatically improve data center compute efficiency
In the race for the most advanced chips, TSMC shows off cutting-edge roadmap
Next-gen nodes promise to accelerate the advantages of current TSMC's 3nm tech
South Korea looks beyond NAND, wants tech companies to increase their focus on processors
The big picture: South Korean tech giants like Samsung and SK Hynix have dominated memory manufacturing for decades. However, the country's president thinks the competition in the processor market, where Taiwan's TSMC looms large, has recently become significantly more critical. A new support package aims to increase Korea's competitiveness across the chip industry.
TSMC's EUV machines have a remote kill switch should China attempt a hostile takeover
China couldn't do much with TSMC even if it did execute a successful takeover
More than a quarter of advanced chip production to occur on US soil by 2032
The Chips Act will make America a major semiconductor player
Robert Dennard, inventor of DRAM and pioneer of semiconductor scaling, dies at 91
His impact on computing lives on
The Chips Act is rebuilding US semiconductor manufacturing, so far resulting in $327 billion in announced projects
About half of the $39 billion in Chips Act incentives has been spent
Chips manufactured in the US and Germany will cost more, TSMC says
TSMC aims to maintain margins with overseas chip production
Commerce Secretary Raimondo points to Huawei's chip as evidence of effective US sanctions
"We've out-innovated China"
Micron set to receive grants totaling over $6 billion for US chip production
An official announcement is expected next week
Samsung receives $6.4 billion in CHIPS grants, will boost production in Texas
Samsung will bring 2nm chip production to the US by 2026, ahead of TSMC
Intel's Foundry financials and what it needs to turn things around
We got pretty close guessing Intel Foundry's numbers
Intel says past mistakes contributed to its foundry business losing $7 billion last year
The figure is expected to be even higher in 2024
Russia's primary chipmaker is struggling with a defect rate of about 50 percent
Sanctions have crippled Baikal's production and packaging capabilities
Two mines in North Carolina are the world's only producer of the quartz necessary for semiconductor manufacturing
If they were to stop operating, it would mean a few years of catastrophic disruption, says Wharton professor Ethan Mollick
Intel plans to spend $100 billion on US chip manufacturing plants
Chipzilla's ambitions go way beyond the US CHIPS Act
Intel will receive up to $8.5 billion in funding, $11 billion in loans from the CHIPS Act
Intel has received the largest CHIPS Act award to date
Samsung wants to bring chips with glass substrate to the market, and fast
Next-generation substrate technology would provide significant improvements
The Netherlands is scrambling to stop ASML from moving its lithography business outside the country
Why it matters: ASML is the largest manufacturer of photolithography machines, designed for etching intricate circuits onto silicon wafers to create advanced computer chips. It stands as the most highly valued European tech company, boasting a market capitalization of nearly $400 billion. Additionally, ASML represents one of the major business ventures in the Netherlands' economy.
How Arm results set the world on fire
The company's valuation is pushing into "Priced for Perfection" territory
Interview with Pat Gelsinger: Intel's CEO describes a different kind of foundry
In advance of Intel's first event dedicated to their Foundry business, I had the opportunity to sit down one-on-one with CEO Pat Gelsinger and talk about the company's strategic goals.
Biden administration to invest $5 billion on next-generation chip-tech research
Recap: The Biden Administration conceived the CHIPS and Science Act as a far-reaching plan to rebuild the US microchip industry essentially from scratch. The plan includes roughly $280 billion in public subsidies to boost domestic research and semiconductor manufacturing, with public and private sectors working together towards a common goal.
Wrestling with AI and the AIpocalypse we should be worried about
Some would argue that AI is a fad, the next bubble waiting to burst
Editor's take: Like almost everyone in tech today, we have spent the past year trying to wrap our heads around "AI". What it is, how it works, and what it means for the industry. We are not sure that we have any good answers, but a few things have been clear. Maybe AGI (artificial general intelligence) will emerge, or we'll see some other major AI breakthrough, but focusing too much on those risks could be overlooking the very real – but also very mundane – improvements that transformer networks are already delivering.
Google IT hardware manager says Moore's Law has been dead for 10 years
Was Jensen Huang right?