Meta and Google orders slip away

Something strange is stirring at Taiwanese IC design house MediaTek. The company’s push into special application chips (ASICs) after 2026 is suddenly looking a lot shakier.

Age of bargain silicon ends

The days of cheap transistors are over as TSMC jacks up prices on its most advanced wafers and signals the end of Moore’s Law’s cosy promise of faster and cheaper chips.

Chipmaker has 15 customers, most chasing high-performance computing

TSMC’s 2nm process is pulling in orders at a cracking pace, with senior management at wafer inspection outfit KLA letting slip that 15 customers have already signed up. Ten of them are gunning for high-performance computing, showing just how much the AI craze is fattening demand for Intel and Samsung's rival.

Wants nearly 40 per cent of global mobile share

MediaTek has unveiled its Dimensity 9500, a 5G flagship chip built on TSMC’s N3P process and pitched as “super powerful and super cool.”

Chip giant sees its robot dreams on four wheels first

Nvidia has set its sights on self-driving cars as the next major cash cow for its physical AI push, hoping to ride a wave of autonomous vehicles before humanoid robots make it out of its smoke-filled labs.

Job's Mob and chums face 50 per cent higher costs for next-gen wafers

Taiwanese foundry giant TSMC is cranking up its 2nm node production, and by 2026 it plans to be pumping out 60,000 wafers a month from four fabs running at full tilt.

N1X SoC delayed thanks to Microsoft, weak demand, and design tweaks

Nvidia’s big leap into Windows on Arm is already hitting speed bumps.

Nvidia tie-up puts Taiwanese firm at the heart of next-gen desktop AI

MediaTek’s GB10 super chip, built in collaboration with Nvidia, has officially hit the shelves  in what looks like a pivotal moment for the Taiwanese firm’s expansion beyond smartphones.

Dimensity 8450 could plug gap left by weak in-house silicon

MediaTek has  rolled out its Dimensity 8450 chip at the India Dimensity Summit, offering a lightly reworked version of the 8400 it pushed out in December 2024. The real eyebrow-raiser, though, was Samsung turning up to the launch. 

Custom AI ASICs set to hit hyperscale workloads 

MediaTek has buddied up with Nvidia in what it claims is a groundbreaking partnership to build tailor-made AI silicon that plugs neatly into the NVLink Fusion ecosystem.