Chipmakers

Intel and the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre (BSC) have announced a €400 million investment in a new lab dedicated to developing RISC-V processors. The facility will focus on building RISC-V-based CPUs to power high-performance computing (HPC) …

SoftBank has a bit of a conundrum on its hands, after failing to sell British chipmaker Arm to Nvidia for around $40 billion earlier this year. The Japanese company has since pivoted to running an initial public …

Qualcomm chief executive Cristiano Amon believes sales of high-end smartphones will be unaffected by any economic slowdown, telling the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos that he sees room for growth even in the …

Apple this week unveiled the new M2 chip, which is the first upgrade to the Apple Silicon chips created specifically for the Mac and iPad. While the new M2-powered MacBooks are yet to hit the …

From now on, Russian and Belarusian entities can only buy CPUs operating at below 25 MHz and offering performance of up to 5 GFLOPS from Taiwanese companies. This essentially excludes all modern technology, including …

The GNU project has announced that its GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) version 12.1 now supports Loongson’s proprietary LoongArch microarchitecture. The addition of LoongArch support to a popular set of compilers will enable software developers to better …

Intel announced it is spending an initial $20 billion on a semiconductor “mega-site” in Ohio, the company’s latest bid to recapture its place as the world’s top semiconductor manufacturer and prove Apple wrong. Apple …

Microsoft has reportedly hired a key Apple semiconductor expert to help develop its own Azure chips as it looks to take its data centres to the next level.  Bloomberg reports that Mike Filippo, a chip veteran …

The chip shortage that’s been plaguing the IT industry for almost two years may be easing for PC shoppers, new research has claimed. Market analysts TrendForce says that starting from November 2021, material shortages for …

Intel and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (better know as TSMC) make for strange bedfellows, but needs must in a world of challenging technological requirements and manufacturing demands. In 2020 Intel outsourced some chip production to their Taiwanese …