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AMD was right about chiplets, Intel's Gelsinger all but says

Even Gordon Moore saw it coming, admits CEO

Systems28 Sep 2022 | 10

US warns losing access to Taiwanese chips could break the economy

Stark warning of a 'deep and immediate recession' if China takes over

Systems21 Jul 2022 | 12

What recession? Chipmaking kit supplier ASML hits record orders

But supply issues are forcing the lithography system giant to defer revenue past 2022

Systems20 Jul 2022 |

Bipolar transistors made from organic materials for the first time

Move over silicon – digital circuits have a flexible new friend

Science23 Jun 2022 | 71

Who's growing faster than Nvidia and AMD? Rising datacenter star Marvell

Of the top 10 fabless chip designers, the Big M soared in Q1 thanks to switch ASICs

Systems14 Jun 2022 | 3

Semiconductor average lead time breaks half-year barrier

Ukraine invasion, two Chinese lockdowns, Japanese earthquake cited by financial analysts in supply report

Systems14 Apr 2022 | 21

10x prices, year-long delays... Life as an electronics engineer in global chip shortage

Never mind those flashy GPUs, MCU drought hits health to automotive

On-Prem25 Mar 2022 | 22

Whenever automakers get their hands on chip supplies, the more expensive vehicles are first in line – NXP

And if the electronics aren't available, features are simply removed

Personal Tech03 Nov 2021 | 97

Chip manufacturers are going back to the future for automotive silicon

Analysis Where we're going, we don't need 5nm

Personal Tech19 Oct 2021 | 12

Report: Apple short of 10 million iPhone 13s this year due to ongoing chip shortage

Broadcomm,Texas Instruments, and more buckling under supply crisis

Personal Tech13 Oct 2021 | 14

Proposed RISC-V vector instructions crank up computing power on small devices

When you need to do audio, voice or image processing at the network edge or on a battery budget

On-Prem08 Oct 2021 | 6

Intel may spend up to €80bn on chip plants in Europe over next ten years

CEO also said it'll use its fab in Ireland to crank out parts for automakers amid shortages

On-Prem08 Sep 2021 | 14

Samsung offered tax rebates for 30 years to build $17bn chip plant in Texas

'No decision has been made' super-corp reminds El Reg

On-Prem07 Sep 2021 | 19

Google is designing its own Arm-based processors for 2023 Chromebooks – report

Why not if you've got the money for it?

Personal Tech02 Sep 2021 | 19

TSMC to hike some chip prices 'by as much as 20%'

If you want all these new fabs, you're gonna pay for 'em, pal

On-Prem26 Aug 2021 | 15

GlobalFoundries to build second chip fab next to NY HQ

And increase output of Fab 8 plant by 150,000 wafers per year

On-Prem19 Jul 2021 | 2

Taiwan chip giant sees 20 per cent revenue spike as industry struggles to meet demand

Capital piles into chip fabs as pandemic recovery pushes demand

Personal Tech09 Jul 2021 | 4

GlobalFoundries breaks ground on new Singapore semi facility targeting automotive, 5G chips

I node what you'll do in summer 2023

On-Prem22 Jun 2021 |

Dem, Repub senators propose tax credits for factories that churn out chips on US soil

It'll be absolutely FABS-ulous, Wyden and Crapo promise

On-Prem18 Jun 2021 | 6

Europe gives SK Hynix the nod to gobble up Intel's NAND flash and solid-state drive biz

I have you now, Samsung

Storage22 May 2021 | 4

Chipmaker TSMC to build 'up to five' more factories in Arizona

Copper State turns silicon?

On-Prem04 May 2021 | 12

GlobalFoundries shifts HQ from Silicon Valley to join its tip-top chip fab in New York

Empire State plant pledges to alleviate semiconductor shortage

On-Prem27 Apr 2021 | 3

Global chip shortage probably won't let up until 2023, warns TSMC: CEO 'still expects capacity to tighten more'

Automotive supply is a 'top priority', analysts told

On-Prem16 Apr 2021 | 6

Intel offers to produce car chips for automakers stalled by ongoing semiconductor supply drought

Also, President Biden hosts meeting to mull over silicon shortage

On-Prem13 Apr 2021 | 26

DARPA adds RISC-V to its Toolbox: Defense researchers can get special access to SiFive chip designs

Labs offered tech by Arm as well as its upstart rival and others

Science07 Apr 2021 | 5

Intel told by jury to pay $2.18bn to VLSI for ripping off two semiconductor patents

Chipzilla vows to appeal verdict

Legal03 Mar 2021 | 11

President Biden to issue executive order on chip shortages as under-pressure silicon world begs for help

CEOs say US needs to invest in home-fabbed tech

Systems13 Feb 2021 | 79

Money talks as Chinese chip foundries lure TSMC staff with massive salaries to fix the Middle Kingdom's tech gap

China wants to break free from reliance on those outside the homeland

Science14 Aug 2020 | 71

Nvidia may be mulling lopping Arm off Softbank: GPU goliath said to have shown interest in acquiring CPU design house

Well, when the chips are down...

Science22 Jul 2020 | 59

Chips for Huawei are fried: TSMC stops shipping parts to Middle Kingdom mega-maker this September

Chairman Mark Liu is carefully abiding by Uncle Sam's new rules

Science16 Jul 2020 | 39

Stinker, emailer, trawler, spy: How an engineer stole top US chip designs, smuggled them to China to set up a rival fab

Chinese chap swiped communications blueprints from what-is-now-Broadcom on behalf of Beijing

Networks30 Jun 2020 | 39

Record-breaking Aussie boffins send 44.2 terabits a second screaming down 75km of fiber from single chip

Tech is perhaps five years away from actual deployment, we're told

Networks22 May 2020 | 59

Attack of the clones: If you were relying on older Xilinx FPGAs to keep your product's hardware code encrypted and secret, here's some bad news

Decrypted configuration bitstream can be siphoned from chips via side-channel flaw

Security22 Apr 2020 | 7

Want to see through walls? Electroboffins build tiny chip in the lab that vibrates at just the right frequency to do it

Video Terahertz nanoplasma kit makes traditional transistors look slow

Science27 Mar 2020 | 49

Novel coronavirus will only knock $100m off sales, says Nvidia. Now get a load of our AI-driven data-center numbers

The past twelve months have not been good for GPU giant

SaaS14 Feb 2020 |

Imagination and Apple, sitting in a tree, l-i-c-e-n-s-i-n-g GPU tech semi-secretly: Brit chip designer strikes iGiant deal

Meanwhile, Samsung semiconductor fab hit by power cut

Personal Tech02 Jan 2020 | 8

Apple sues iPhone CPU design ace after he quits to run data-center chip upstart Nuvia

CEO accused of breaching contract with Cupertino, fires back in court

Systems09 Dec 2019 | 95

We're so, so, sorry you're not able to get PC chips, says Intel to everyone who hasn't gone with AMD yet

Epyc apology, Chipzilla

Personal Tech21 Nov 2019 | 62

AMD isn't playing around: Bad console quarter a drag on chip slinger's finances

Strong Ryzen, Epyc performance hampered by slow sales for semi-custom

Systems29 Oct 2019 | 5

A carbon-nanotube RISC-V CPU blinks into life. Boffins hold their breath awaiting first sign of life... 'Hello world!'

MIT, Analog get into some RISC-y business

Science29 Aug 2019 | 27

Qualcomm gets to keep its chip tech to itself – for now – after federal agencies gang up on FTC

Ninth Circuit approves partial stay on injunction

Legal26 Aug 2019 | 8

The silicon market is in such a dark place, Texas Instruments' revenue decline was rewarded

Profits down, shares up

On-Prem24 Jul 2019 | 5

DRAM, is it cold in here? Semiconductor market expected to shrink 12% in 2019

Device numbers growing, but manufacturers are using fewer/cheaper chips per device

On-Prem18 Jul 2019 | 8

Pull up your SoCs, it's rubber-glove time: European Commission to probe Broadcom over microchip supply deals

Updated Casts an eye over biz's agreements with 7 of its main customers

On-Prem26 Jun 2019 | 8

'It's like painting with atoms'... Watch how boffins form armies of simple micron-sized bots from a silicon wafer

Video And they may be injected into your body one day

Science10 Mar 2019 | 54

God DRAM, that's a big price drop: Memory down 30 per cent, claim industry watchers

Plummeting chip prices are collateral damage from ongoing Intel CPU shortage

Personal Tech07 Mar 2019 | 26

Boffins are building an open-source secure enclave on RISC-V

Open source trusted execution component expected this fall

Security31 Aug 2018 | 36

The off-brand 'military-grade' x86 processors, in the library, with the root-granting 'backdoor'

Black Hat Dive into a weird and wonderful 'feature' of Via's embedded hardware chips

Security10 Aug 2018 | 36

Bloke accused of netting $5m on inside info about Lattice Semiconductor

Chinese broker faces prison, if he's ever found in Uncle Sam's jurisdiction and convicted

Security18 Jul 2018 | 4

Did you have locking down AI and blockchain as possible Intel SGX uses? If so, congrats...

Israel Cyber Week Bias-enabling algorithms and smart contract tech no one quite trusts now easier to secure

Security20 Jun 2018 | 3

Boffins offer to make speculative execution great again with Spectre-Meltdown CPU fix

Good thing too because Intel's planned chip changes may break Google's Retpoline

Security16 Jun 2018 | 72

Is your gadget using secondhand memory? Predictable senility allows boffins to spot recycled NAND chips

Not what you'd expect in industrial kit

Edge + IoT07 May 2018 | 23

Hooray for MLPerf, another AI benchmark competition backed by Google, Baidu, etc

New project to compare the dizzying number of AI chips and models available

AI + ML02 May 2018 |

OK, deep breath, relax... Let's have a sober look at these 'ere annoying AMD chip security flaws

Analysis Holes useful for malware on completely pwned PCs, servers

Security13 Mar 2018 | 124

Qualcomm disappointed by Broadcom's 'inadequate' shrinking package

Snapdragon giant confirms: Size really does matter

On-Prem21 Feb 2018 | 1

Beat Wall St estimates, share price falls 5%. Who else but... AMD?

Chipmaker grows revenues 34 per cent, investors are meh

On-Prem31 Jan 2018 | 15