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Chinese companies spend $26 billion on advanced chipmaking machinery investment

Ahead of possible new U.S. export regulations, Chinese chipmakers increase purchases of semiconductor fab tools.

Tom’s Hardware · Aug 22, 2024

U.S. closing critical gap in domestic chipmaking supply chain — GlobalWafers given $400 million to make wafers in the U.S.

The U.S. government provides $400 million to GlobalWafers to support wafer manufacturing in Missouri and Texas.

Tom’s Hardware · Jul 17, 2024

Applied Materials' New Deposition Tool Enables Copper Wires to Be Used for 2nm and Beyond

Although the pace of Moore's Law has undeniably slackened in the last decade, transistor density is still increasing with every new process technology. But there is a challenge with feeding power to smaller transistors, as with the smaller transistors comes thinner power wires within the chip, which increases their resistance…

AnandTech · Jul 12, 2024

Blacklisted China chipmaker SMIC becomes the world's second-largest pure-play foundry by revenue — outsells GlobalFoundries and others

SMIC becomes the world's second-largest pure-play foundry as it eclipses GlobalFoundries and UMC, but this is only true if you exclude Intel and Samsung.

Tom’s Hardware · May 10, 2024

Samsung accelerates race against Intel in glass chip packaging development — glass substrates boost performance

Samsung accelerates construction of glass substrates pilot line, plans to start test production in Q1 2025.

Tom’s Hardware · May 8, 2024

Samsung Tapes Out Its First 3nm Smartphone SoC, Gets A Boost From Synopsys AI-Enabled Tools

This week Samsung Electronics and Synopsys announced that Samsung has taped out its first mobile system-on-chip on Samsung Foundry's 3nm gate-all-around (GAA) process technology. The announcement, coming from electronic design automation Synopsys, further notes that Samsung used the Synopsys.ai EDA suite to place-n-route the layout and verify design of the…

AnandTech · May 3, 2024

Samsung Foundry Update: 2nm Unveil in June, Second-Gen SF3 3nm Hits Production This Year

As part of Samsung's Q1 earnings announcement, the company has outlined some of its foundry unit's key plans for the rest of the year. The company has confirmed that it remains on track to meeting its goal of starting mass production of chips on its SF3 (3 nm-class, 2nd Generation)…

AnandTech · May 1, 2024

Arm and Samsung to Co-Develop 2nm GAA-Optimized Cortex Cores

Arm and Samsung this week announced their joint design-technology co-optimization (DTCO) program for Arm's next-generation Cortex general-purpose CPU cores as well as Samsung's next-generation process technology featuring gate-all-around (GAA) multi-bridge-channel field-effect transistors (MBCFETs). "Optimizing Cortex-X and Cortex-A processors on the latest Samsung process node underscores our shared vision to redefine…

AnandTech · Feb 22, 2024

Samsung And Arm Collaborate On Next-Gen Cortex-X CPU

Samsung and Arm collaborate to develop Cortex-X CPU on Samsung's GAA process technology for enhanced AI capabilities.

Top News · Feb 20, 2024

GlobalFoundries: Clients Are Migrating to Sub-10nm Faster Than Expected

When GlobalFoundries abandoned development of its 7 nm-class process technology in 2018 and refocused on specialty process technologies, it ceased pathfinding, research, and development of all technologies related to bleeding-edge sub-10nm nodes. At the time, this was the correct (and arguably only) move for the company, which was bleeding money…

AnandTech · Feb 14, 2024