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Apple’s transition to Intel chips, as reported last week, displays a strategic move driven by necessity and ambition. However, industry experts suggest this is not a straightforward transition, as advanced Intel chips typically require two to three years to…
Viettel Group, a Vietnamese multinational telecommunications corporation, has recently launched the initialization phase of building the country’s first semiconductor chip fabrication plant. This ambitious venture, endorsed by the Ministry of National…
Apple’s most recent M5 iPad Pro has been unveiled, exhibiting yet another relatively insignificant, ‘chip-and-ship’ upgrade that most users are likely to bypass. However, the real point of interest is the modest addition of an in-house cellular chip, marking…
Apple’s Vision Pro, rather than relying solely on one chip for power, utilizes both the M2 and the R1 chips. In a recent development, reports suggest that Apple plans to incorporate the R2 chip in the next iteration of its premium Mixed Reality (MR) headset,…
In a bold step toward revolutionizing the realm of artificial intelligence, Broadcom has unveiled the Tomahawk 6, a state-of-the-art Ethernet switch chip boasting an impressive bandwidth of 102.4 Tbps. This innovation is set to become a cornerstone of…
Back in December, Dutch tech giant ASML shipped its first High-NA Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machine (EXE:5000) to Intel. The $400 million machine will take us to the next tier of chip production with a process node of 2nm and less. The original…
Vietnam accounted for 10% of semiconductor chip exports to the U.S. in the 12 months ending this February, ranking third after Malaysia and Taiwan. The Vietnam chip industry’s revenue from the U.S. market rose by 74.9% during the period, from $321.7 million…
Just because we don’t constantly hear about it as much anymore doesn’t mean that the global chip shortage has ended; when it comes to chips, the world isn’t all of a sudden “in the chips,” according to Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger who spoke Friday on CNBC’s…
Apple’s initial line of M-series chips includes the M1, M1 Pro, M1 Max, and the M1 Ultra. Built by TSMC using its 5nm process node, these SoCs feature a large number of transistors starting with the M1’s 16 billion and moving ahead to the 33.7 billion on the…
A shortage of semiconductors is likely to remain a problem for the auto industry into 2023, German carmaker BMW’s Chief Executive Oliver Zipse said in an interview with newspaper Neue Zuercher Zeitung (NZZ) published on Monday. “We are still in the height of…
Semiconductor chip supply is unlikely to be enough to completely satisfy demand again until 2024, Volkswagen Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Arno Antlitz said in an interview with German daily Boersen-Zeitung on Saturday. He said that although bottlenecks would…
Bosch is investing an additional 250 million euros ($282.50 million) in extending chip production facilities at its Reutlingen plant in Germany, the company said on Tuesday. The Reutlingen site had previously been earmarked for 50 million euros of a total of…
Czech passenger car production fell by 11.4% year-on-year to 92,657 vehicles in January, posting its lowest result for that month since 2010 as the chip shortage continued to weigh, the Czech Automotive Industry Association (AutoSAP) said on its website on…
Battery maker LG Energy Solution Ltd (LGES) said on Tuesday it aims to boost sales by about 8% in 2022, forecasting a pick-up in demand for electric vehicle (EV) batteries as a global chip shortage eases later this year. The newly listed South Korean firm,…
Toshiba Corp said on Friday it will invest about 125 billion yen ($1.09 billion) to more than double the production of power management semiconductors, aiming to catch up with power chip giants such as Infineon Technologies AG. The Japanese industrial…
In his tweet, Evan Blass said that the Lenovo Halo would be equipped with the Qualcomm SM8475 chipset. Although there is little information available for this chip, it is suspected that it may be an improved version of Qualcomm’s current flagship SoC, the…
