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Samsung Tapes Out Its First 3nm Smartphone SoC, Gets A Boost From Synopsys AI-Enabled Tools

This week Samsung Electronics and Synopsys announced that Samsung has taped out its first mobile system-on-chip on Samsung Foundry's 3nm gate-all-around (GAA) process technology. The announcement, coming from electronic design automation Synopsys, further notes that Samsung used the Synopsys.ai EDA suite to place-n-route the layout and verify design of the SoC, which in turn enabled higher performance.

Samsung's unnamed high-performance mobile SoC relies on 'flagship' general-purpose CPU and


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Taiwan chipmaker PSMC opens plant with eye on AI semiconductors

MIAOLI, Taiwan -- Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. (PSMC) on Thursday opened a facility in northwestern Taiwan producing chips for a wide range of applications, including artificial intelligence.

PSMC produces legacy logic and memory chips. It had a 1% global share for foundry services in the October-December quarter, placing it eighth in the world, according to Taiwanese research company TrendForce.


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Tesla's wafer-sized Dojo processor is in production — 25 chips combined into one

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One of the less-noticed tidbits from last week's TSMC North American Technology Symposium was announcement that Tesla's Dojo system-on-wafer processor for AI training is now in mass production and is on track to be deployed shortly. More details about the giant processor were revealed at the event.

Tesla's Dojo system-on-wafer processor (or, as Tesla calls it, the Dojo Training Tile) relies on a 5-by-5 array of known good

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(PR) UMC Introduces Industry's First 3D IC Solution for RFSOI, Accelerating Innovations in the 5G Era

United Microelectronics Corporation ("UMC"), a leading global semiconductor foundry, today announced the industry's first 3D IC solution for RFSOI technology. Available on UMC's 55 nm RFSOI platform, the stacked silicon technology reduces die size by more than 45% without any degradation of radio frequency (RF) performance, enabling customers to efficiently integrate more RF components to address the greater bandwidth requirements of 5G.

As mobile device manufacturers pack more frequency bands in newer generations of smartphones, the company'

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(PR) Micron First to Ship Critical Memory for AI Data Centers

Micron Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: MU), today announced it is leading the industry by validating and shipping its high-capacity monolithic 32Gb DRAM die-based 128 GB DDR5 RDIMM memory in speeds up to 5,600 MT/s on all leading server platforms. Powered by Micron's industry-leading 1β (1-beta) technology, the 128 GB DDR5 RDIMM memory delivers more than 45% improved bit density, up to 22

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蘋果或在M4引入全新設計,更多信息指向OLED版iPad Pro搭載新款SoC

蘋果將於北京時間2024年5月7日晚上10點舉行名為“Let Loose”的特別活動,帶來全新iPad產品。有消息稱,這次蘋果將發佈OLED版iPad Pro、新款iPad Air、以及全新的Magic Keyboard和Apple Pencil,可能會是蘋果平板電腦最大規模的單日更新之一。隨


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聯發科新款車機芯片現身Geekbench:基本確認Arm Cortex-X5 IPC提升顯著

不久前曾有 消息 透露,聯發科正在與Arm合作,可能在天璣9400上採用代號“BlackHawk”的新內核架構——Cortex-X5,傳聞測試的表現非常不錯,IPC高於蘋果的A17 Pro,也比高通的自研芯片要更好一些。

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Samsung's chip unit returned to profit in Q1 on strong AI demand

SEOUL -- Samsung Electronics' semiconductor unit returned to profit in the first quarter as demand for advanced memory chips critical for artificial intelligence computing soared sharply, recovering from a yearslong downturn.

The world's biggest memory chipmaker on Tuesday said its device solutions (DS) division posted a 1.9 trillion won ($1.4 billion) operating profit for the first three months this year, turning from a 4.6 trillion won operating loss a year ago. The division's revenue jumped 68% to


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Raspberry Pi adding new memory options to its compact Compute Module 4S boards

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In a nutshell: Raspberry Pi has been offering its single-board computing devices in a flexible, extremely compact form factor since 2014. It has updated the latest iteration of these Compute Modules to offer even more flexibility to enterprise customers and makers.

Raspberry Pi Foundation recently announced a minor expansion to its Compute Module 4S (CM4S) offering, which includes several variants with different memory capabilities. The

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Ryzen 8000: The World's First CPU for AI PCs

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AMD's Phoenix line of Ryzen 8000 processors are the world’s first desktop CPUs with an integrated high-performance Neural Processing Unit (NPU) engine to boost performance in AI workloads, beating Intel to the punch again — AMD was also the first x86 chipmaker to bring an NPU to laptops, helping advance and define the new concept of AI PCs .

AMD pairs this ‘XDNA’ AI accelerator with the powerful Zen 4 CPU microarchitecture and the RDNA 3 graphics