Hardware Industry TSMC R&D executive believes the chip shortage will last until 2024 We can't fast forward to the end of this crisis By Adrian Potoroaca , March 2, 2022, 9:41 AM 13 comments
Hardware Industry Nvidia reportedly spent $10 billion for a chunk of TSMC's 5nm manufacturing capacity Here's to hoping the RTX 4000 series won't be a paper launch By Adrian Potoroaca , February 21, 2022, 2:30 PM 35 comments
Hardware Industry TSMC's expansion to Arizona reportedly three months behind schedule Growing pains for the world's largest contract chipmaker By Adrian Potoroaca , February 15, 2022, 2:55 PM
Hardware Industry TSMC price hike expected to impact CPUs and graphics cards this year Not what we wanted to hear right now By Rob Thubron , January 19, 2022, 5:19 AM 15 comments
Industry TSMC reports record profits, will spend $44 billion on upgrading capacity in 2022 No crisis for TSMC By Rob Thubron , January 13, 2022, 7:51 AM
Industry Hardware TSMC founder: Pat Gelsinger doesn't have enough time to take Intel to the top Intel's CEO age limitation could thwart its ambitions (or not) By Rob Thubron , December 9, 2021, 5:15 AM 27 comments
Hardware Industry Next AMD Chromebook CPUs may use Samsung 4nm node Other companies expected to favor TSMC in the near term By Daniel Sims , December 8, 2021, 4:27 PM
Hardware Industry Nvidia might use TSMC's 5nm process node for upcoming GeForce RTX 4000 GPUs The new GPUs could be unveiled in the second half of 2022 By Adrian Potoroaca , November 30, 2021, 3:53 PM 23 comments
Apple Mobile Apple commissions TSMC to build custom 5G modem for iPhone Apple wants to reduce its reliance on Qualcomm By Shawn Knight , November 24, 2021, 12:44 PM
Hardware AMD's Radeon RX 6000-series price is reportedly set to increase by 10% Aren't they expensive enough? By Rob Thubron , November 24, 2021, 9:16 AM 24 comments
Hardware Intel rumored to order TSMC 3nm chips for Meteor Lake graphics tiles Meteor Lake to combine multiple process nodes By Daniel Sims , November 23, 2021, 6:14 PM 14 comments
Hardware Industry TSMC has received $4 billion from clients to reserve future manufacturing capacity And to create more manufacturing capacity By Isaiah Mayersen , November 20, 2021, 9:41 AM 17 comments
Hardware Apple Apple Mac Pro 3nm SoC packing up to 40 CPU cores on track for 2023 In the meantime, next-generation Apple Silicon could land next year By Adrian Potoroaca , November 5, 2021, 2:36 PM
Hardware TSMC promises performance and power efficiency gains with its new 5nm 'N4P' process An improvement over N5 and N4 processes By Daniel Sims , October 26, 2021, 5:44 PM 18 comments
Hardware Industry TSMC won't disclose customer data to the US government The Taiwanese chipmaker was asked to provide sensitive information for greater "transparency" By Adrian Potoroaca , October 8, 2021, 2:47 PM 21 comments
Industry Sony set to become a major customer of TSMC's first fab in Japan TSMC and Sony are considering a $7 billion joint investment in a chip factory in western Japan By Joao Silva , October 8, 2021, 12:29 PM
Hardware Industry TSMC chairman claims some companies are sitting on chip stockpiles Chip scalping is one of the reasons for the current semiconductor woes By Adrian Potoroaca , October 6, 2021, 10:24 AM 21 comments
Industry Apple TSMC increased its chip prices by 3% for Apple while others faced 20% rises The perks of being TSMC's biggest customer By Rob Thubron , September 6, 2021, 9:58 AM 21 comments
Hardware Industry CPU and GPU prices set to increase amid TSMC wafer price hike Unrelenting demand is causing chipmakers to raise prices By Adrian Potoroaca , August 25, 2021, 2:47 PM 38 comments
Hardware Industry AMD shows off more 3D-stacking technologies at Hot Chips 33 Stacks on stacks (on stacks) By Matthew Lee , August 22, 2021, 3:21 PM 9 comments
Hardware Industry Intel has reportedly secured the majority of TSMC's 3nm production capacity AMD and Apple won't be pleased By Rob Thubron , August 13, 2021, 5:16 AM 24 comments
Hardware Industry TSMC gets green light on 2nm fab, plans to have it operational in 2024 So much for Intel's plan to lead process technology by 2025 By Adrian Potoroaca , July 28, 2021, 4:19 PM 9 comments
Industry Hardware Intel will make chips for Qualcomm as it looks to challenge TSMC and Samsung by 2025 "IFS is off to the races." By Rob Thubron , July 27, 2021, 5:16 AM
Hardware Industry TSMC is evaluating Germany as possible location for an European arm The Taiwanese company is looking to build its first chip plant in Europe By Adrian Potoroaca , July 26, 2021, 2:28 PM 10 comments
Industry Car Tech TSMC expects auto industry chip shortage to subside in the coming months TSMC's heavy investments will soon start to pay off By Shawn Knight , July 15, 2021, 10:02 AM