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TSMC shows off new tech for stitching together bigger, faster chips - Reuters

TSMC shows off new tech for stitching together bigger, faster chips Reuters

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Intel to adopt TSMC's next-gen 2nm process for upcoming Nova Lake CPUs

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Something to look forward to: Upcoming chips from Intel, Apple, and AMD will utilize next-gen semiconductors featuring gate-all-around (GAA) transistors. While Intel is set to debut its own 18A process incorporating GAA later this year, reports suggest that the company's CPUs slated for 2026 will actually be among the first to adopt TSMC's version of the technology.

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Nvidia supplier SK Hynix unseats Samsung as world’s DRAM chip leader on AI boost

SK Hynix also further widened its lead in high-bandwidth memory chips, with a 70 per cent global market share in the first quarter. Photo: Shutterstock

The coming earnings results of SK Hynix are likely to show it replaced Samsung Electronics as the world’s top vendor of dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) for the first time in the two companies’ decades-long rivalry, thanks to demand for artificial intelligence (AI).
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M4 MacBook Air Drove Apple’s 17% YoY Growth In Q1 PC Shipments, The Highest Among All Manufacturers, But Tariff Concerns May Cut It Short

The new M4 MacBook Air helped Apple regain momentum and enjoy faster growth than any other computer manufacturer in the world in the first quarter of this year. While the company has received a boost, a new report claims that the growth will not last for a longer period due to the imposition of import tariffs by the Trump administration.

Apple led the Q1 PC market with strong M4 MacBook Air sales, but looming tariffs may impact future growth

Apple has found itself in the clutches of the new import policies, which


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M4 MacBook Air helps drive market-beating growth for Apple

The launch of the M4 MacBook Air back in March helped Apple enjoy faster growth than any other computer maker in the first quarter of the year, according to a new report.

However, there are concerns that this boost may be short-lived, due to the potential for tariffs to be imposed later in the year …

While the launch of the M4 MacBook Air may not have been an especially exciting update, reviewers agreed that this is the Mac most people should buy .

It was described as the perfect time


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Intel's 'Nova Lake' Processors Reportedly Slated for TSMC's 2nm Node

TSMC is pushing forward its plans to make 2 nm process chips in large quantities in the second half of the year, with major customer developments coming to light. After AMD placed its order, reports suggest Intel has also become one of TSMC's first 2 nm customers aiming to use this cutting-edge technology for its next-gen desktop processors. Intel, already a big TSMC customer for advanced processes sent out key compute tiles for its Core Ultra processors to TSMC using different processes like N3B, N5

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Getting Apple’s Base M4 Mac mini With Only 256GB Storage Is Not Recommended, But NewQ’s Dock Available For $99.99 On Amazon Guarantees Storage Expansion & More, Without Taking Up Space

The M4 lineup of Macs solved a major complaint that customers were having, and that was the amount of unified RAM present in previous-generation models. Apple addressed this concern by shipping every single one of its models, including the base Mac mini, with 16GB of memory, making it one heck of an upgrade. Unfortunately, one area that the company has yet to scale is the base storage, and with 256GB, the compact computer currently listed on Amazon for $569 can

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TSMC Breaks Silence On Reports It Shipped Advanced AI Chips To China’s Huawei

The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has responded to reports that it shipped artificial intelligence processors to Chinese technology giant Huawei. Huawei's Ascend processors have been the subject of a lot of debate, with one fresh report from Semi Analysis claiming that Huawei managed to acquire the processors from TSMC. The Taiwanese firm is prohibited by the US from shipping advanced chips to Huawei, and TSMC's statement asserts that it has not shipped any products to the Chinese company since September 2020. The US restricted sales

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Intel Nova Lake-S CPUs To Feature Support On New LGA 1954 Socket, LGA 1851 Only Gets Arrow Lake & Refresh Desktop Chips

Intel is expected to move to a newer socket with its Nova Lake-S Desktop CPU lineup, which will be called LGA 1954. Intel LGA 1851 Socket Only For Arrow Lake & Its Refresh, New LGA 1954 Socket For Nova Lake-S Desktop CPUs Intel's LGA 1851 socket was first introduced last year with the Arrow Lake-S "Core Ultra Series 2" CPU lineup. The new socket was featured on the latest 800-series

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Huawei's new AI CloudMatrix cluster beats Nvidia's GB200 by brute force, uses 4X the power

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Unable to use leading-edge process technologies to produce its high-end processors for AI, Huawei has to rely on brute force – install more processors than its industry competitors to achieve comparable performance for AI.

To do this, Huawei took a multifaceted strategy that includes a dual-chiplet HiSilicon Ascend 910C processor, optical interconnections, and the Huawei AI CloudMatrix 384 rack-scale solution that relies on proprietary software, reports SemiAnalysis . The whole system provides a 2.

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