Intel spies a fresh payday in fancy packaging
US customers eye local options
Advanced packaging is shaping up to be a massive prospect for Troubled Chipzilla as US chip designers start sniffing around for someone nearby to wrap their shiny silicon.
Intel suddenly looks useful again
Packaging kit gets unexpected love as TSMC struggles to keep up
Troubled Chipzilla's EMIB and Foveros packaging tricks, long overshadowed by TSMC’s dominance, are finally being treated as viable alternatives.
Samsung is stuck paying for Qualcomm chipsets
Weak Exynos yields and contract penalties keep Snapdragon in charge
Samsung’s next Galaxy flagships are shaping up to be a pricey headache as the dark satanic rumour mill claims the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 will power about 75 per cent of Galaxy S26 models worldwide.
Valve's new Steam Frame VR headset is based on Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC
2160x2160 per eye, variable refresh rate, 110-degree FoV, and more
As a part of the Steam Hardware announcement, Valve also announced the new Steam Frame VR headset, which is based on Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC, and promises some impressive specifications and features. The Steam Frame VR headset will launch in 2026 alongside the rest of the new Steam Hardware.
Qualcomm eyes Android laptops with Snapdragon X
ChromeOS merger suggests Google is noticing the PC market
Chipmaker Qualcomm might have stuck its Snapdragon X series into Windows laptops, but now it's sniffing around Android too.
TSMC squeezes chip supply as AI giants fight for N3 capacity
Fidelity’s Huang begs for wafers as fabs hit their limits
TSMC’s latest sports day turned into something of a customer summit when Fidelity boss Huang Renxun publicly pleaded for more chip supply, declaring that “without TSMC, there would be no Fidelity.”
Qualcomm weathers tax hit but keeps punters happy
Mobile chip giant posts gains, sees AI as golden goose
Chipmaker Qualcomm managed to please the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street despite coughing up a net loss of $3.12 billion, thanks to an income tax sting that took a chunk out of what would have been a solid quarter.
Qualcomm brews Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 on 2nm
New CPU layout and juiced-up performance
Qualcomm’s next flagship chip, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6, is shaping up to be a proper kitchen-sink job. Fresh leaks suggest it will use TSMC’s swanky 2nm N2P process and feature an all-new CPU cluster design.
TSMC’s 2nm race heats up
Qualcomm and MediaTek join Apple at the front line
The semiconductor arms race has entered another round, with TSMC speeding ahead on its 2nm roadmap.
Samsung gears up for 2nm and HBM4 mass production
Korean giant profits surge
Samsung is charging ahead into 2026 with plans to begin mass production of next-generation memory and chip technologies, including its long-awaited 2nm Gate-All-Around (GAA) process.