British arms dealer BAE behind F-35 electronics first in line for US CHIPS funds More awards imminent agency says Public Sector11 Dec 2023 | 3
New York set to host $10B semiconductor research facility with IBM and Micron Elsewhere, BAE Systems bags first CHIPS Act funding Systems11 Dec 2023 |
Intel shows off backside power and stacked transistors at IEDM Chip giant claims demo tech could 'significantly' improve device density Systems11 Dec 2023 | 6
Japan's Rohm, Toshiba grab $900M in subsidies to boost power semi production Silicon carbide production for EVs among key targets Systems10 Dec 2023 | 3
Brit bendy chip firm Pragmatic scores funding to boost production Semiconductor bods get cash injection after threatening to quit UK over lack of government support Systems06 Dec 2023 | 12
Intel scores a reprieve in $2.18B VLSI patent case after court orders retrial Updated The never-ending IP story goes on Systems04 Dec 2023 | 4
Broadcom's latest Trident switch silicon packs neural net processor to terminate congestion Chip promises better telemetry, security, and traffic engineering, vendor claims Systems30 Nov 2023 |
Nvidia’s China-market H20 chips hit another speed bump Integration woes delay Nvidia's hopes of maintaining grip on Middle Kingdom Systems27 Nov 2023 | 2
German budget woes threaten chip fab funding for Intel and TSMC Constitutional court tells govt: Er, about that €60B you handed out... it's not legal Systems24 Nov 2023 | 39
Washington pours $3B into silicon smackdown to outpackage Asia Uncle Sam rolls up sleeves to onshore work and protect supply chain Systems21 Nov 2023 | 6
Will anybody save Linux on Itanium? Absolutely not Analysis It's doomed to sink... but the how and why is interesting OSes21 Nov 2023 | 81
Cerebras CEO puts Nvidia on blast for 'arming' China with top-tier GPUs SC23 Calls biz rival 'un-American' for weaving around chip export ban AI + ML16 Nov 2023 | 5
Intel chips away at carbon footprint but skims over thirst for water, chemicals Semiconductors are a dirty business Systems15 Nov 2023 | 3
Banned US chipmaking equipment still ending up in China, says report Plus: US execs line up to dine with President Xi Systems15 Nov 2023 | 6
Qualcomm and Iridium's satellite link-up loses signal Updated Tech was proven, but nobody wanted to put it in their Snapdragon devices Personal Tech10 Nov 2023 | 9
Arm flexes financial muscles post-IPO, but shares get a reality check Brit chip house now looking to cloud and automotive to grow revenues Systems09 Nov 2023 | 3
Nexperia sells Newport Wafer Fab to American chipmaker for $177M Good news for skilled workers with new owner aiming to 'safeguard positions' Systems09 Nov 2023 | 11
Sales bonanza at ASML as China stockpiles chipmaking kit Dutch exports skyrocket thanks to Washington restrictions Systems08 Nov 2023 | 4
Ventana bumps performance on Veyron RISC-V silicon to surely speed up servers Bugatti ain't got nothing on this V2 Systems07 Nov 2023 | 2
Intel to build hush-hush fabs to bake chips for US military 'Secure enclave' reports point to separate production line with blocked off access Public Sector07 Nov 2023 | 6
Epyc 3 ain't done yet – AMD extends availability to 2026, unleashes six more SKUs Three-year-old cores, but hey – they're cheap, relatively speaking Systems07 Nov 2023 | 2
Hardware hacker: Walling off China from RISC-V ain't such a great idea, Mr President America could drive innovation... or inject fear and doubt and kill off choice On-Prem07 Nov 2023 | 53
Beijing signals it may let Micron out of the penalty box in the Middle Kingdom Commerce minister would love if US chipmaker took root in Chinese market On-Prem05 Nov 2023 | 2
China's YMTC scrounges for billions to help bypass US sanctions Meanwhile, RISC-V has Uncle Sam rattled Systems02 Nov 2023 | 10
Qualcomm in recovery position following annus horribilis Smartphone sales not nearly so bad and just think of the AI potential for margins Systems02 Nov 2023 | 7
Feds collar suspected sanctions-busting Russian smugglers of US tech Parts sent to Moscow allegedly found on Ukrainian battlefields Security01 Nov 2023 | 15
Don't feel left out, chip designers. Nvidia's made a chatbot assistant for you, too In the lab, anyway AI + ML01 Nov 2023 |
The UK government? On the right track with its semiconductor strategy? Oh, you're not joking Public Sector31 Oct 2023 | 88
Vietnam becomes latest nation to pitch itself as a chip biz hub 50,000-strong alt.China talent pool promised, with Google, Samsung, SpaceX, and Intel interested On-Prem31 Oct 2023 |
Apple lifts the sheet on a trio of 'scary fast' M3 SoCs built on a 3nm process MacBook Pro and iMac get the new silicon, and price tags up to a terrifying $7,199 Personal Tech31 Oct 2023 | 102
Intel CEO Gelsinger dismisses 'pretty insignificant' Arm PC challenge Chipzilla beats revenue guidance but datacenter biz is still in the dumps Personal Tech27 Oct 2023 | 18
Uncle Sam orders Nvidia to cease most AI chip sales in China 'immediately' Chipmaker thought it had 30 days to get last few orders out the door Systems24 Oct 2023 | 14
Qualcomm claims its X Elite PC parts can go toe-to-toe with Apple, Intel Oh, and there's a new Snapdragon 8 Gen3 chip bristling with AI potential Systems24 Oct 2023 | 6
Ex-ASML worker accused of stealing chipmaking secrets for China is Huawei to a new job If true, wages of sin aren't that good Systems24 Oct 2023 | 36
India plans semiconductor research institute to rival the world's finest And gives itself five years to build silicon photonics cores Systems23 Oct 2023 | 4
There's no Huawei Chinese chipmakers can fill Nvidia's shoes... anytime soon Analysis Chinese AI and GPU vendors face a less than fab-ulous dilemma where to get their chips built moving forward Systems22 Oct 2023 | 65
Biden has brought the ban hammer down on US export of AI chips to China Analysis Datacenter GPUs and some consumer cards now exceed performance limits Systems19 Oct 2023 | 12
India courts IBM, Intel, and Tower for chip partnerships - all in one day Big Blue in early talks to advance local RISC-V designs Systems19 Oct 2023 | 2
Ampere leads a pack of AI startups to challenge Nvidia's 'unsustainable' GPUs AI Platform Alliance probably has Jensen Huang in tears...of laughter AI + ML18 Oct 2023 | 2
TSMC abandons plans for 2nm chip plant after Taiwanese locals protest Foundry giant now searching for new home for high-end fab site Systems17 Oct 2023 |
Intel's 14th-gen Raptor Lake Refresh turns turbos up to 6GHz, gives i7 an E-core bump TSMC-equipped Meteor Lake mobile parts not coming until December Systems16 Oct 2023 | 4
Tachyum says someone will build 50 exaFLOPS super with its as-yet unfinished chips Interview 'It's a huge, effing big machine' HPC16 Oct 2023 | 4
Canon claims its nanoimprint litho machines capable of 5nm chip production Probably not a threat to ASML's EUV tech just yet, analyst tells El Reg On-Prem13 Oct 2023 | 21
Nvidia's accelerated cadence spells trouble for AMD and Intel's AI aspirations Analysis Or it could, just as soon as they figure out how to make the networking work Systems13 Oct 2023 | 10
UK silicon startups to share £1.3M chump change as part of chip strategy Crumbs compared to the billions thrown about in US and Europe Systems13 Oct 2023 | 27
Qualcomm to shed over 1,000 staff in California, plus some Brits, starting in December Vice-presidents, engineers among those scheduled to have a rotten Christmas Systems13 Oct 2023 | 6
Samsung nabs contract to produce 3nm server chips for mystery US biz Parts reportedly geared toward high-performance compute and leverage advanced packaging Systems13 Oct 2023 |
Beijing-backed server chip startup formed by ex-Arm China execs Almost a quarter of SoftBank-owned chip designer's total revenue comes via Middle Kingdom, um, arm Systems12 Oct 2023 | 16
Latest SiFive RISC-V cores aim to boost performance, accelerate AI workloads Those are some fat vector registers Systems11 Oct 2023 | 4
Microsoft reportedly runs GitHub's AI Copilot at a loss Analysis Redmond willing to do its accounts in red ink to get you hooked CxO11 Oct 2023 | 6
RISC-V org claims export restrictions would stifle innovation Efforts to deny China access will hurt the 'open' part of open standard, says collab body CEO Systems10 Oct 2023 | 6
Boffins propose RISC-V microcontroller to power cubesats Test chip promises crunching on par with 20-year-old chips while sipping power Systems05 Oct 2023 |
Taiwan looks into claims local companies helped Huawei advance China chipmaking Plus: EU is looking its own strategic export controls – and not just to China Systems05 Oct 2023 | 2
Intel's Gelsinger grades his chip flip a hit, but AMD exec thinks it's more silicon slip Canalys EMEA Forum Exiting fab biz was 'turning point' for House of Zen, claims Darren Grasby Personal Tech05 Oct 2023 | 7
Japan confirms ¥192 billion will flow to help Micron build Hiroshima plant That's $1.3 billion – pocket change compared to CHIPS Acts elsewhere On-Prem04 Oct 2023 | 1
Samsung to fab chips for RISC-V processor world's Tenstorrent For now, chaebol will manufacture AI startup’s 4nm Quasar Systems04 Oct 2023 | 2
Intel spins off FPGA biz with DC boss Sandra Rivera at the helm x86 giant eyes outside cash injections, IPO for Programmable Systems Group within three years Systems03 Oct 2023 | 2
Uncle Sam to tighten chip export chokehold on China... again Red dragon's semiconductor market share continues to grow Systems03 Oct 2023 | 67
From vacuum tubes to qubits – is quantum computing destined to repeat history? Analysis Having seen how conventional computers changed the world, can you really afford to bet against it? HPC03 Oct 2023 | 31
Intel starts mass production on Intel 4 node using EUV in Irish fab First Euro facility to use the next-gen lithography tech for commercial production Systems28 Sep 2023 | 16
Chip firm accused of IP theft bites back, claims Apple's contracts are rotten iGiant says Rivos poached talent and SoC designs in '22 Systems26 Sep 2023 | 16
AI startup Lamini bets future on AMD's Instinct GPUs Oh MI word: In the AI race, any accelerator beats none at all Systems26 Sep 2023 |