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.”

US government and big tech should carve up struggling giant

Troubled Chipzilla should be taken private, stripped apart, and rebuilt into a proper foundry and design house, according to four long-serving former directors writing in Fortune.

Hopes new chip erases 3nm humiliation 

Samsung will start mass production of its Exynos 2600 by the end of September, making it the first SoC built on the company’s 2nm Gate-All-Around process.

Grabs more than half of 2026 output, leaving rivals in the dust

The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple has reportedly signed up for more than half of TSMC’s 2nm production capacity in 2026, effectively elbowing rivals out of the queue for the world’s most advanced silicon.

Nvidia’s cash will not fix Intel’s mess without a split

Troubled Chipzilla scored a temporary win when Nvidia lobbed it a $5 billion bone, but if Intel thinks that is enough to crawl back into relevance, it is dreaming, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Deal will bring RTX GPU chiplets to Intel x86 SoCs

Nvidia and Intel have announced a "collaboration" to develop multiple generations of datacenter and PC consumer products. Tucked in the PR announcement is that Nvidia is investing $5 billion in Intel's common stock at a price of $23.28. Both CEOs will conduct a webcast press conference at 10 a.m. Pacific time (1 p.m. Eastern time).

Chipmaker drags Taiwan market to fresh high

Taiwan’s TSMC has surged again, with its US ADR rising 0.3 per cent on Wednesday to close at $262.79, marking four straight days of record highs.

AI boom drives 2nm surge

The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell on earth yarn claiming that Nvidia is already looking past 2nm processing and is preparing to jump onto TSMC’s A16 process, due for mass production in the second half of 2026.

AI boom keep the tills ringing

TSMC has just clocked up its busiest August in history, pulling in 3357.72 billion yuan (€96.1 billion), a 3.9 per cent rise month-on-month and 33.8 per cent up year-on-year.

Taiwanese foundry forced to plan packaging a year in advance

TSMC is finding itself on the back foot as demand for its advanced packaging tech has exploded thanks to the AI chip gold rush, with firms like Nvidia breathing down its neck.