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AMD accuses Intel's Arrow Lake of being a 'horrible' product and implies a lack of options for consumers has caused the Ryzen 7 9800X3D shortage

By James Bentley published 10 January 25

News AMD is taking its victory lap a little early.

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European Union Council approves €43 billion Chips Act

By Chris Szewczyk published 27 July 23

News It aims to reduce reliance on foreign made semiconductors.

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It's a new week with a new development in the ongoing China-US tech dispute: Now China is going to ban US chips from its telco networks from 2027

By Chris Szewczyk published 15 April 24

News Tit-for-tat.

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'I think this is a 10-year gap' – Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger says China is majorly behind in chip manufacturing thanks to export restrictions and looks to stay that way for the foreseeable future

By Andy Edser published 19 January 24

news The Intel head honcho seems convinced that China is seriously off the pace, and will remain that way while export restrictions continue.

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Taiwanese chipmaking bounces back after last week's 7.4 magnitude earthquake

By Chris Szewczyk published 11 April 24

News Chip makers were well prepared.

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China's AI chip industry shows signs of strain as two key players look like they might be in trouble

By Andy Edser published 26 January 24

news US export restrictions continue to bite, as China's AI industry starts to show signs of stress.

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TSMC takes 'chip binning' to a whole new level as entire wafer 'found in a dumpster'

By Jeremy Laird published 28 February 25

News Anyone know how to slice it up into GPUs?

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AMD 'leaving billions of dollars on the table' thanks to laptop AI chip supply issues

By Jeremy Laird published 20 September 24

news AMD laptop chips have been in short supply "for a decade".

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World's smallest microcontroller looks like I could easily accidentally inhale it but packs a genuine 32-bit Arm U

By Jeremy Laird published 14 March 25

News A sneeze-inducing 1.38 mm² and small enough to make a Raspberry Pi look like a bus.

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Intel is asking for an additional $10 billion from CHIPS act subsidies because the chip giant feels it deserves more cash for investing in US developments

By Nick Evanson published 19 February 24

news Good job it's the CHIPs Act, not CHiPs because what would extra motorcycle cops do for Us?

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CEO Jensen Huang reveals that Nvidia is now making chips in the USA but will that help with gaming GPU supplies?

By Jeremy Laird published 21 March 25

News Not just test chips, but 'production silicon'.

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Samsung workers union is calling for an indefinite strike, to which the bosses claim there will infeasibly be 'no disruptions' to production

By Nick Evanson published 10 July 24

news All while TSMC enjoys a market cap just shy of one trillion dollars.

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Critical metals for electronic components and gadgets jump in price, as China's trade restrictions with the US begin to bite

By Nick Evanson published 17 December 24

news Gallium, germanium, and antimony are all vital to the semiconductor industry.

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Intel's Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake Us won't have the instability issues affecting 13th and 14th Gen processors

By Chris Szewczyk published 3 September 24

News Oh, and a reminder to update your BIOS if you're running a 13th or 14th Gen chip.

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Intel follows Apple's lead with Meteor Lake chip with on-package memory

By Jacob Ridley published 7 September 23

News One day we might see on-package DRAM, even.

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AMD's new Ryzen 7 9800X3D gaming U sold out almost instantly and scalpers are already selling the chips for up to $999

By Jeremy Laird published 8 November 24

News But how many were actually available to buy in standard retail? That's actually tough to say.

News

Scammers have resorted to selling Us without dies, as a well-known Korean overclocker has discovered

By Chris Szewczyk published 6 May 24

News Chips without chips.

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Looks like Intel has quietly killed the 20A process, announcing that no Arrow Lake chip will use its first Angstron Era node

By Dave James published 5 September 24

news The Intel 20A process seems like it's going to go down in history as purely a test platform for backside power and GAAFET.

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Taiwan to drop new law restricting TSMC from allowing foreign fabs to produce leading edge nodes after company's $100 billion investment in US facilities

By Hope Corrigan published 29 April 25

News The law's designed to keep other countries one node behind Taiwan at all times.

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The US won't force the world's biggest chipmakers to back out of China even if it apparently makes them 'look very weak'

By Katie Wickens published 13 June 23

news The Biden istration plans to keep trade export-control policy restrictions loose for top semiconductor manufacturers.

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The US-China tech war is really heating up

By Chris Szewczyk published 4 July 23

News Beijing imposes export restrictions on two metals critical for high tech manufacturing.

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Here's how US tariffs have affected PC gaming hardware, from paused shipments to new investments

By Jacob Fox published 19 May 25

Tariffic Here are the latest effects of tariffs on the PC hardware industry.

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Intel shows off a maths defying 8-core chip with 528 threads and optical interconnects

By Chris Szewczyk published 31 August 23

News Hyper ultra mega threading.

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Nvidia might be in the blame game with TSMC over Blackwell chip failures, but that doesn't mean it will go back to Samsung

By Jacob Fox published 17 October 24

News It's not impossible, but TSMC's incredibly strong right now.

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MSI is using cut-down RTX 4090 GPUs in at least one of its RTX 4070 Ti Super models, with a higher TGP but no extra performance

By Nick Evanson published 26 June 24

news No amount of BIOS hacks will turn it back into a full-blown RTX 4090, though.

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Intel could match TSMC for chip transistor density later this year

By Jeremy Laird published 31 May 23

News Intel might even be beating TSMC by 2024.

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MSI says that the supply of its RTX 5090 cards will be very tight, due to a limited supply of GPUs from Nvidia

By Nick Evanson published 27 January 25

news Artificial supply constraint or a sign of genuine manufacturing limitations?

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US Commerce Secretary says if China seized TSMC it would be 'absolutely devastating' to the US economy, as it buys 92% of its cutting-edge chips from the Taiwanese manufacturer

By Andy Edser published 10 May 24

news As Chinese relations with Taiwan remain strained, the US continues to reinforce the importance of chip manufacturing on home soil.

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Samsung and TSMC have been eyeballing the Middle East for new locations to build chip factories, says WSJ

By Nick Evanson published 23 September 24

news Don't get too excited; this is probably just about having even more AI stuff.

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Apple books exclusive access to TSMC's 3nm chipmaking capacity for a whole year

By Jorge Jimenez published 10 August 23

News The deal also means that Apple only has to pay for working chips.

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