China's commerce ministry issued a new directive on Tuesday, which bans the sales of at least three key minerals to the US.
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It is rumored that Samsung could finally launch an affordable variant of the Galaxy Z Flip, with the latest one suggesting an Exynos chip inside.
The Galaxy S25 Ultra with Snapdragon 8 Elite SoC has hit a new high on Geekbench, and the Galaxy S25+ has popped up with an allegedly ditched Exynos 2500 chip.
Apple reportedly plans to bring in-house Wi-Fi and Bluetooth chips made by TSMC to next year's iPhone 17 series.
Qualcomm is reportedly weighing a possible takeover of chip rival Intel, but is likely to wait until after the US presidential election in November due to uncertainties over antitrust policy.
Samsung could make a final decision if it will be going ahead with Exynos 2500 processor in the upcoming Galaxy S25 series or not.
MediaTek has announced that its partnership with Google has taken a new turn and Dimensity 9400 will support Gemini Nano with multimodality.
A tipster has revealed the alleged pricing of the next-gen flagship processors from Qualcomm and MediaTek and it is bad news.
Elon Musk's Neuralink shared an update on its clinical study after the first human patient reached 100 days with a chip in his brain, and saying he's happy with the progress made is an understatement.
Musk's project Neuralink, which aims to cure life-changing injuries, runs its first clinical trial on a human patient. All looks good so far, as the patient is able to control PC cursor without hands.
Last weekend, the very first human patient received Neuralink's N1 brain chip. It is important milestone for Musk's project, which aims to cure the most severe diseases and life-changing injuries.
iPhone 15 Pro's A17 Bionic chip details leaked. It is said to have 6 CPU and GPU cores running at 3.7GHz and to use TSMC's 3nm process. iPhone 15 series is expected to be complemented with 6GB of RAM.
With a £1 billion investment, The UK government has unveiled its National Semiconductor Strategy. The aim is to address security vulnerabilities in the supply chain and ensure national security.
A new report reveals that ARM is working on a home-baked semiconductor chip to flex its muscles. The company wants to attract more customers and fuel growth following its IPO later this year.
Samsung has begun the production of 3 nm chips. They deliver improved performance and power usage compared to 5 nm chips. Samsung is also planning even better second-gen 3 nm hardware.
Chinese semiconductor industry has slowed down by 4.2% following Covid-19 lockdown in Shanghai. The output has shrunk for the first time after Q1 2019 due to low demand and strict preventive measures.
High demand for tech and supply chain chaos has resulted in chip shortages across the world. However, companies can't make more chips since now they are facing a shortage of chip-making tools.
The analyst firm Gartner has predicted that half of the top ten auto manufacturers will begin designing their own chips by the middle of the decade following the current chip shortage.
Intel says that its latest fab complex will consist of chip packaging facilities and multiple modules that will have the potential of processing wafers by employing its advanced process technologies.
Qualcomm has taken the wraps off its Snapdragon 888 Plus 5G Mobile Platform, with a focus on AI-enhanced gaming and performance, allowing users to play games at up tp 144Hz on QHD mobile displays.
"Half-double" is a Rowhammer exploit which grants access to wider memory addresses on newer DRAM chips. Malicious code can potentially take control of the full system through this hardware bypass.
Samsung had announced in 2019 that it would invest more than $115 billion by 2030 into its logic chip businesses. Now the tech giant says it is increasing it to an eye-watering $151 billion.
The U.S. government is further tightening its restrictions on Huawei that will prevent the company or any of its entities from getting their hands on chips or any technology made by a U.S. firm.
Huawei has cut down on component orders to its suppliers as it looks to delay the launch of the Mate 40 series this year by 1-2 months following a supply chain disruption due to the U.S. export ban.
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OPPO has started focusing more on its own chip building capabilities and it has been snapping up key executives and engineers from its suppliers for this. It has hired executives from MediaTek.
Using a trained deep reinforcement learning model, a team at Google calculated the optimal chip placement on an IC—a problem that would have taken several weeks for human experts to solve.
After buyers of Shanghai-made Model 3 cars threatened to sue the firm for substituting control chips with an older version without notice, Tesla cited supply chain issues due to coronavirus outbreak.
OPPO is reportedly working on in-house custom SoC to improve the competitiveness of its future smartphones. The company has also recruited engineers from Realme and OnePlus for the task.
Broadcom has announced that it has entered into new multi-year agreements with Apple that will see the San Jose firm provide components for Apple's devices released through the middle of 2023.
Horse Ridge, developed using Intel's 22nm FinFET technology, is a cryogenic, highly-integrated, mixed-signal SoC that will facilitate more efficient control of multiple qubits in a quantum computer.
ARM's legal company gave the verdict that the company can continue supplying chip technology to Huawei since the origin of it will not breach U.S. trade restrictions and sanctions.
Samsung has unveiled its Exynos i T100 chip, a device that's aimed at IoT devices and offers greater security and durability. Samsung says that the chip can withstand temperatures as high as 125ºC.
In the ongoing legal battle between Qualcomm and Apple, the former has claimed that the Cupertino giant owes it $7 billion in royalties. Apple has rejected this claim, deeming it to be unfair.
Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook has called on Bloomberg to recant its news story about how Chinese spies embedded malicious chips in the company's servers which were manufactured in China.
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Apple is bolstering its efforts to develop more efficient chips by licensing Dialog Semiconductor's power management integrated circuits and acquiring its certain assets in a new deal.
Intel's CFO and interim CEO, Robert Swan, is reassuring customers that its chip business will be able to make enough 10nm processors in order to fulfill its target volume production this year.
Qualcomm seeks to amend its lawsuit filed late last year against Apple, this time saying it has spotted email correspondence and source code development history that it claims will boost its evidence.
Qualcomm claims the new Snapdragon mobile platforms provide an improved performance, fast internet speeds, and longer battery life, among others, for mid-range phones without breaking the bank.
7nm EUV production is slated for 2H-2018; 5nm and 4nm nodes are on track for production in 2019 and 2020. 3nm node is being developed using Gate-All-Around Field-Effect Transistor (GAAFET) technology.
Samsung has posted a strong earnings guidance for this quarter, saying that it made over $50 billion in sales. It also boasts nearly $15 billion in operating profit, likely due to its chip business.
