Semiconductor articles

TSMC's EUV machines have a remote kill switch should China attempt a hostile takeover

Apple's secret meeting with TSMC could be a move to lock down chipmaker's 2nm tech

TSMC's performance-boosting 3nm N3P node on schedule for late 2024

More than a quarter of advanced chip production to occur on US soil by 2032

Robert Dennard, inventor of DRAM and pioneer of semiconductor scaling, dies at 91

The Chips Act is rebuilding US semiconductor manufacturing, so far resulting in $327 billion in announced projects

Chips manufactured in the US and Germany will cost more, TSMC says

Commerce Secretary Raimondo points to Huawei's chip as evidence of effective US sanctions

Micron set to receive grants totaling over $6 billion for US chip production

Samsung receives $6.4 billion in CHIPS grants, will boost production in Texas

Apple iPhone 17 Pro could be the first phone with TSMC's 2nm chip

Intel's Foundry financials and what it needs to turn things around

Intel says past mistakes contributed to its foundry business losing $7 billion last year

Russia's primary chipmaker is struggling with a defect rate of about 50 percent

Two mines in North Carolina are the world's only producer of the quartz necessary for semiconductor manufacturing

Intel plans to spend $100 billion on US chip manufacturing plants

Intel will receive up to $8.5 billion in funding, $11 billion in loans from the CHIPS Act

Samsung wants to bring chips with glass substrate to the market, and fast

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.

Samsung Foundry renames 3nm process to 2nm to better compete with Intel 20A

Intel's 1nm node is coming in 2027 with "double-digit" improvements in performance and efficiency

How Arm results set the world on fire

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

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.