TSMC eyes UAE chip fab
Middle Eastern megafab plans tests US national security nerves
TSMC is apparently snuffling around the United Arab Emirates as a possible spot for a new chip fab, despite the fact that it might anger the US ruler Donald Trump who insists that all fabs are belong to him.
TSMC still not sold on ASML’s €370 million High-NA EUV
Says Low-NA is still pulling its weight
TSMC appears to be in no rush to adopt ASML’s pricey High-NA EUV machines, despite rivals like Troubled Chipzilla already scribbling them into future roadmaps.
TSMC puts design boots on the ground in Germany
Munich centre adds European edge to Taiwan’s global chip dominance
TSMC has given Brussels something to gloat about by announcing a new chip design centre in Munich.
Qualcomm caught in Samsung’s yield gamble yet again
Forced deal with Korean foundry as TSMC loyalty wobbles
Qualcomm normally tries to split chip production between Samsung and TSMC but always ends up relying on TSMC because Samsung cannot fix its yield problems. This year might be different for better or worse.
AMD dumps Samsung for TSMC USA
AMD's chip love affair with Korea over
AMD has pulled the plug on a once-promising deal with Samsung Foundry, ditching the Korean giant’s SF4X process in favour of TSMC’s shiny US operations in Arizona.
TSMC's 2nm chips on track
AMD beats Apple and Intel to tape-out
TSMC's 2nm process node is cruising through development and is already showing better defect rates than 3nm and 7nm did at the same stage.
Chipzilla is king of packaging
Intel plays the packaging card to keep customers
Troubled Chipzilla has decided the path to foundry salvation runs straight through the packaging plant. It’s now shouting from the rooftops that its real ace in the silicon arms race isn’t process nodes but how it wraps the goods.
Intel adds AI and mass-market twists to 18A node
Chipzilla’s CEO Lip-Bu Tan leans into realism
Troubled Chipzilla is stretching its long-promised 18A process into two new variants aimed at feeding the AI beast and mainstream punters.
TSMC chickens out of high-NA EUV for A14
Bets on old-school lithography to dodge soaring costs
TSMC, once the trendy pioneer of bleeding-edge chipmaking, is now pulling a handbrake turn on high-NA EUV adoption.
TSMC 2nm process defect rates lower than expected
New GAA chip tech impresses
TSMC claims its upcoming N2 manufacturing node is ahead of schedule on defect reduction, even though it is the company’s first attempt at gate-all-around (GAA) nanosheet transistor technology.