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Apple is first in line for TSMC's 2nm chip supply

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Forward-looking: Apple has reportedly found itself at the front of the line once again for TSMC's latest manufacturing process. Sources familiar with the matter told DigiTimes that Apple is widely believed to be the first client set to utilize TSMC's 2-nanometer manufacturing process.

This is not the first time Apple has been in such an advantageous position as a TSMC client. In

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Apple Reportedly in the VVIP Lane for TSMC's 2 Nanometer GAA

A DigiTimes Asia report posits that TSMC is preparing another VVIP foundry lane for Apple Inc.—insiders claim that the Taiwanese foundry giant is in the process of expanding production capacity into next generation 2 nm nanometer fields. Their 2 nm-class N2, N2P, and N2X process technologies are due in 2025 and beyond (according to recent presentation slides )—these advanced packages are set to drop with all sorts of innovations: nanosheet gate-all-around (GAA) transistors,
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(PR) Intel and UMC Announce New Foundry Collaboration

Intel Corp. and United Microelectronics Corporation ("UMC"), a leading global semiconductor foundry, today announced that they will collaborate on the development of a 12-nanometer semiconductor process platform to address high-growth markets such as mobile, communication infrastructure and networking. The long-term agreement brings together Intel's at-scale U.S. manufacturing capacity and UMC's extensive foundry experience on mature nodes to enable an expanded process portfolio. It also offers global customers greater choice in their sourcing decisions with

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Huawei's MatePad Pro hides an unknown Kirin 9000W

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Last August Huawei surprised the industry by launching its HiSilicon Kirin 9000S smartphone processor presumably made by Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC) using its 2nd generation 7nm-class process technology . Since then, another Kirin 9006C chip showed up, though this one was allegedly made by TSMC years ago . This week a yet another HiSilicon system-on-chip — the Kirin 9000W — transpired.

The eight-core HiSilicon Kirin

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傳聞天璣9400移動平台將採用台積電3nm工藝,性能提升巨大

此前已有不少傳聞稱天璣9400移動平台和第四代驍龍8移動平台將成為首批採用3nm製程節點的安卓陣容旗艦SoC。近日博主數碼閒聊站 曝料 ,聯發科打算利用台積電的第二代3nm工藝來製造下一代旗艦SoC,而且博文中説到這


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MediaTek Dimensity 9400 SoC Reportedly Queued for TSMC Second-Gen 3 Nanometer Process

MediaTek revealed its (now current generation) flagship Dimensity 9300 flagship mobile processor last November, but we are already hearing about its successor's foundation. Digital Chat Station published some early insights on their Weibo micro-blog—the tipster appears to have an inside track at MediaTek's system-on-chip R&D department. The imaginatively named "Dimensity 9400" chipset is reportedly earmarked for mass production chez TSMC, with the foundry's second generation 3 Nm process being the
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AMD's next-gen Zen 5 APUs appear — Strix Point and Strix Halo listed in ROCm Code with RDNA 3.5 GPU

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AMD has added support for its next-generation accelerated processing units codenamed Strix Point to the ROCm software stack used to program GPUs, as noticed by @Kepler_L2 . The addition confirms that AMD's upcoming processors based on the Zen 5 microarchitecture will feature GPUs based on the RDNA 3.5 architecture.

AMD's Strix Point Halo APU will feature AMD's GFX1151 GPU IP with RDNA 3.5 clusters, whereas regular Strix Point processors will feature

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Details of Intel's Barlow Ridge Thunderbolt 5 Controller Leaks

erial leaker @yuuki_ans on X/Twitter has released details on Intel's upcoming Barlow Rridge Thunderbolt 5 controller which will be known as the JHL9580 or JHL9540 depending on the SKU. The good news is that Intel has finally moved to PCIe 4.0 for the bus interface, which was expected due to the increased bandwidth on offer by Thunderbolt 5 over Thunderbolt 3 and 4. Barlow Ridge will use a PCIe 4.0 x4 interface to connect to the host
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Apple Silicon|Intel

AMD公佈Ryzen 8000G系列Zen 4c內核更多信息:頻率低於Zen 4內核

AMD在去年4月發佈了Ryzen Z1系列APU,其中定位較低的Ryzen Z1使用了Zen 4+Zen 4c混合架構的Phoenix2芯片,首次將Zen 4c架構內核帶入消費端市場。不過一直以來,AMD都沒有介紹Zen 4c的具體信息,官網缺乏規格頁面,營銷材料也沒


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AMD Ryzen 7 8840U APU Benched in GPD Win Max 2 Handheld

GPD has disclosed to ITHome that a specification refresh of its Win Max 2 handheld/mini-laptop gaming PC is incoming—this model debuted last year with Ryzen 7040 "Phoenix" APUs sitting in the driver's seat. A company representative provided a sneak peek of an upgraded device that sports a Team Red Ryzen 8040 series "Hawk Point" mobile processor, and a larger pool of system memory (32 GB versus the 2023 model's 16 GB)
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