Chips and Components
Taiwan prioritises chips over food production, suspends irrigation across thousands of acres of farmland as drought continues
Chipmaking facility uses a lot of water, typically two to four million gallons each day
Amazon takes chip production in-house
The move will enable the firm to avoid supply chain disruptions and improve its own infrastructure
Arm announces new chip architecture with focus on security and AI
ARMv9 features Confidential Compute Architecture and 'Realms' to shield sensitive data and code from the OS and non-permitted apps
Intel to make processors for other chipmakers based on their own designs
CEO Pat Gelsinger says the company will invest $20 billion (£14.6 billion) on two new 'fabs' in Arizona this year
Fire at chip manufacturing unit in Japan could have 'massive impact' on global auto production
Renesas controls around a 20 per cent of global share in microcontrollers used in cars
Drought-hit Taiwan has water reserves to keep chip makers running till May
The country is facing one of its worst droughts in decades
IBM claims 'world's first energy efficient AI accelerator chip' based on 7nm technology
The chip is optimised for low-precision workloads with a range of machine learning and AI models, IBM says
AMD launches Ryzen 5000 series mobile CPUs at CES 2021
AMD expects more than 150 laptops to use Ryzen 5000-series CPUs this year
Nvidia announces GeForce RTX 30 series GPUs
The new RTX 30 series GPUs will launch on over 70 laptops throughout the year
Meeting todays remote worker service management challenges
Many of the tools you need can be downloaded for free, says Intel
AMD unveils Radeon RX 6000 family of graphics cards
The new cards provide 'up to double' the performance of AMD's previous-gen flagship cards
US mulls ban on SMIC, China's largest chipmaker
Placing SMIC on the Entity List would require US suppliers to obtain a licence before trading with the company
Nvidia's next-gen RTX 30 cards are first to use new Ampere architecture
New graphics cards offer up to twice the performance of Turing-based models
TSMC expects 3nm chip mass production in the second half of 2022
3nm technology will be 30 per cent more energy efficient and 15 per cent faster than the 5nm tech, TSMC says
US sanctions force Huawei to stop making Kirin chips
Huawei can no longer produce the chips it needs for its high-end smartphones with features like 5G and AI, due to US government sanctions
Intel's 7nm chips will not arrive until late 2022
Rivals AMD and Nvidia have already started taking advantage of 7nm technology to produce more efficient chips
TSMC to begin 3nm mass production in 2021, report
The chip maker is also rumoured to have made major breakthrough in 2nm chips
Apple ditches Intel to switch Mac computers to its own ARM-based processors
The first Macs with Apple chips will arrive by the end of the year
Intel and AMD: processor supply won't be interrupted by coronavirus
Both AMD and Intel are continuing to produce CPUs at near full capacity despite the COVID-19 outbreak
First ARM-powered Apple Macs coming within 18 months, claims Ming-Chi Kuo
Long rumoured shift from Intel to in-house designed ARM processors is imminent, noted Apple analyst claims
Intel's cryogenic Horse Ridge chip aims to make quantum computers faster and smaller
The chip uses radiofrequency capabilities to control 128 qubits with a single device
DRAM price crash forces global semiconductor revenues down 12 per cent - but Intel retakes top spot
Memory price crash batters Samsung, Hynix and Micron, enabling Intel to retake top spot as world's biggest semiconductor company
Intel acquires AI chipmaker Habana Labs in $2 billion deal
Intel's Habana acquisition intended to accelerate its efforts in the AI chip market
TSMC's 5nm process achieves 50 per cent yield
AMD is expected to be among the first customers for TSMC's 5nm chips, for its Zen 4 CPUs
