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TSMC begins producing 4-nanometer chips in Arizona, Raimondo says - Reuters

TSMC begins producing 4-nanometer chips in Arizona, Raimondo says Reuters

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Samsung reportedly working on a 3-layer stacked camera sensor for iPhone [U]

Sony has had the exclusive manufacturing contract for iPhone camera sensors for more than a decade, but Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo last year suggested this would be changing with the iPhone 18 . This has now been backed by two further reports, one of which provides a little more detail.

Samsung is said to be working on a 3-layer stacked camera sensor for Apple, which should improve the performance of future iPhone cameras. Update: now backs the report …

Sony has for years made the most advanced smartphone camera


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TSMC Cuts Ties With Another Firm For Supplying Huawei With AI Chips – Report

The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has cut off ties with a Singaporean chip company after an investigation revealed that the latter firm had shipped products to Chinese technology giant Huawei. The report comes from the South China Morning Post, and it quotes three sources to share that a TSMC chip was discovered in a Huawei AI processor, which led to a review and subsequent action by TSMC against the firm PowerAIR. US sanctions against Huawei prevent the Chinese firm from procuring advanced chips manufactured by relying on US technology due to national security

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Apple forms Shanghai data-processing venture as AI push in China still in limbo

The Shanghai unit of Apple will focus on software development, big data services, storage services and data processing.

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Apple and Nvidia chip supplier TSMC’s sales top estimates, boosting AI’s 2025 outlook

The world’s largest contract chipmaker reported a 39 per cent rise in October-December revenue to US$26.3 billion.

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Galaxy S25 Slim To Also Feature A Snapdragon 8 Elite With Overclocked Performance Cores Like The Remaining Models, But Obtains An Exceptionally Poor Multi-Core Score

Samsung will reportedly announce not three but four members of its Galaxy S25 lineup later this month, with the Korean giant introducing the ‘Slim’ moniker to the family for the first time. Evidence of this particular model has been spotted in the latest benchmark leak, with the alleged Galaxy S25 Slim being tested with Qualcomm’s latest and greatest chipset, the Snapdragon 8 Elite. What is impressive is that despite the slim form factor of the upcoming flagship, the SoC is shown to feature performance cores operating

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M4 MacBook Air: Four new features are coming very soon

Apple’s best-selling Mac, the MacBook Air, is getting upgraded soon—possibly as the first Apple product launch of 2025. Here are four new features coming to the M4 MacBook Air when it arrives.

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Intel Twin Lake CPU powers Chuwi's new 2-in-1 laptop and tablet — MiniBook X N150 and Hi10 X N150 features quad-core Intel N150 CPU

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Budget PC maker Chuwi released two new devices featuring Intel’s latest entry-level Intel Twin Lake NX50 series processor: the MiniBook X N150 2-in-1 laptop and the Hi10 X N150 tablet.

Chuwi says these devices will use Intel’s N150 chip. The CPU features four E-cores and four threads, hitting a maximum boost clock speed of 3.6 GHz. Because of their low power consumption

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SMIC Will Catch Up With TSMC’s ‘Trillion Dollar’ Market Cap, Says Hedge Fund Boss

China's largest chip manufacturer, the Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) can match TSMC in market capitaliztion believes Wong Kok Hoi of APS Asset Management. TSMC is the world's largest and leading chip manufacturer, whose advanced technologies are used by all of the world's largest technology companies to manufacture their products. On the other hand, SMIC has struggled to master the older 7-nanometer chip manufacturing process since sanctions have cut its access to advanced EUV chip manufacturing machines from ASML. However, the analyst believes

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AMD Indirectly Credits Apple For Its Ryzen AI Max Chips, Stating The Company Has Proven Users Prioritize Performance Over Whether Chips Are Integrated Or Discrete

Since 2020, Apple Silicon has paved the way for open competition in the industry, and so far, AMD has managed to come close to the Cupertino giant. On the flip side, Intel has been left behind not only by Apple but also by AMD. AMD is following Apple's route to combine the CPU, GPU, and unified memory, similar to what it does with its M series of chips. While AMD has not credited Apple for the approach, it did state that the chip would
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