Intel announced the first details of its 'Intel 4' process node and shared an image of a Meteor Lake processor's compute die at the 2022 IEEE VLSI Symposium. Intel claims impressive results with its new 'Intel 4' node, including 21.5% higher frequencies at any given clock rate or a 40% power reduction at the same frequency, over its previous-gen 'Intel 7' node. Intel also claims a 2X area scaling improvement, meaning it has doubled transistor

In the first quarter of 2022, the Top 10 fabless chip designers increased their cumulative sales to $39.43 billion, or by a whopping 44% year-over-year, according to TrendForce (opens in new tab) . Qualcomm and Nvidia continued to remain on top of the list, but AMD — now in the fourth place — is slowly but surely increasing its sales and has all chances to become the third largest fabless chip designer