The socket is the motherboard, Part 2 — Intel archrival (and Nvidia’s BFF) plans to build giant chips that could use kilowatts of power but they won’t be as big as Cerebras trillion transistor behemoth

May 11, 2024 by lisa nichols

A few weeks ago, we wrote how Eliyan’s NuLink PHY could do away with silicon interposers and integrate everything into an single, elegant package. How, essentially, the socket could become the motherboard. At the recent 30th annual North America Technology Symposium, the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) revealed plans to construct a version of its … Read more

The Apple M4 chip’s AI performance just leaked – and it might not be what you expected

May 8, 2024 by lisa nichols

When Apple unveiled the new M4 iPad Pro at its May 7 ‘Let Loose’ event, the company talked up the M4 chip’s artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities, saying it was more powerful than any neural processing unit (NPU) in any AI PC today. Well, the M4’s performance has apparently just leaked in a fresh set of … Read more

Who’s making chips for AI? Chinese manufacturers lag behind US tech giants

May 3, 2024 by lisa nichols

Nvidia chief executive officer Jensen Huang shows off the new Blackwell GPU chip (left) at an 18 March event in San Jose, California.Credit: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty The rapid advance of generative artificial intelligence (AI) has sparked a global technological race to produce computer chips that power the models. A US ban on selling … Read more

Samsung plans to start mass production of 2nm GAA chips in 2025

April 30, 2024 by miranda cosgrove

In the past few years, Samsung has seen a tremendous slowdown in its semiconductor chip foundry business. No big-name chip firm (apart from Samsung’s System LSI division that makes Exynos chips) has used Samsung Foundry’s 3nm and newer-generation 4nm process nodes. However, the company is still marching ahead with the development of newer chip process … Read more

TSMC introduces cheaper 4nm chips, vows to bring 1.6nm chips in 2026

April 26, 2024 by miranda cosgrove

Samsung Foundry and TSMC are the world’s most advanced contract chip manufacturers, and TSMC has had the upper hand over the past few years. While Samsung has been trying to up its game, it hasn’t succeeded. With its 3nm chip fabrication process, the South Korean firm had hoped to win back big-name clients, but even … Read more

Apple Partner TSMC Unveils Advanced 1.6nm Process for 2026 Chips

April 25, 2024 by miranda cosgrove

Apple chipmaker TSMC has announced plans to produce highly advanced 1.6nm chips that could be destined for future generations of Apple silicon. TSMC yesterday unveiled a series of technologies, including the “A16” process, which is a 1.6nm node. The new technology significantly enhances chip logic density and performance, promising substantial improvements for high-performance computing (HPC) … Read more

Samsung starts mass production of 1Tb 9th Gen. V-NAND flash chips

April 23, 2024 by miranda cosgrove

Samsung, the world’s biggest memory chip maker, has announced it is the first brand to start mass-producing 1Tb TLC 9th Gen V-NAND flash chips. TLC refers to Triple Level Cell, and the new chips can store 3-bit data in one cell. Samsung becomes world’s first brand to start mass production of 1Tb 9th Generation V-NAND … Read more

Macs to Get AI-Focused M4 Chips Starting in Late 2024

April 11, 2024 by miranda cosgrove

Apple will begin updating its Mac lineup with M4 chips in late 2024, according to Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman. The M4 chip will be focused on improving performance for artificial intelligence capabilities. Last year, Apple introduced the M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max chips all at once in October, so it’s possible we could see the … Read more

Samsung All-In-One Pro PC launched with 4K screen, Intel Core Ultra chips

April 8, 2024 by miranda cosgrove

Samsung is slowly expanding its PC lineup. After launching its first desktop PC in years last year, the company has launched its new all-in-one PC in South Korea. Named All-In-One Pro, the iMac-like desktop PC is now available for pre-order. It will be readily available in South Korea starting on April 22. The All-In-One Pro … Read more

Intel Core Ultra 5 234V CPU leaked – our first glimpse of next-gen Lunar Lake laptop chips

April 6, 2024 by lisa nichols

One of Intel’s Lunar Lake processors, which are very promising power-efficient next-gen chips for laptops, has just been spotted and it’s seemingly part of the Core Ultra 200 family. This comes courtesy of a leak on X (formerly Twitter), highlighted by VideoCardz and posted by @miktdt (a leaker who has popped up a couple of … Read more