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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing

The next big Apple chip innovation coming as soon as 2026

Though we are getting some pretty great upgrades in this year’s iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max line with the introduction of a 3nm chip in the form of the A17 Pro, we won’t get a similarly big manufacturing upgrade until 2026. The introduction of 3nm technology will further benefit the current MacBooks,…

TSMC will build its first European chip factory in Germany

TSMC plant Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company has been working to expand its manufacturing footprint for quite some time, and now it has a major factory deal in Germany set in motion. TSMC is one of the largest semiconductor manufacturers on the planet, and works with a variety of different companies for their chip needs. Of…

Profits are down for TSMC but the iPhone 15 will help it rebound

TSMC profits are expected to decline year-over-year Apple supplier TSMC is expected to report a drop in profits soon, but business will recover in the third quarter because the company is producing the iPhone 15. On Thursday, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), a chip manufacturer based in Taiwan, is projected to reveal a 27% decrease…

Arizona workers accuse TSMC of fatalities at ‘dangerous’ construction site

TSMC’s headquarters in Hsinchu, Taiwan Construction workers building TSMC’s Arizona plant allege that it’s the “most unsafe site,” and accuse the chip maker of injuries, fatalities — and reneging on pay deals. The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) makes Apple’s processors, and with the encouragement of the Biden Administration, has invested $40 billion in new…

TSMC isn’t worried about new material restrictions set up by China

TSMC China’s government has moved forward with restricting exports on certain materials central to chip manufacture — but TSMC does not foresee this will impact production in the short term for Apple devices. Tensions between the United States and China continue, with the two government bodies going back and forth with specific restrictions impacting businesses…

TSMC Preps 6x Reticle Size Super Carrier Interposer for Extreme SiP Processors

As part of their efforts to push the boundaries on the largest manufacturable chip sizes, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is working on its new Chip-On-Wafer-On-Substrate-L (CoWoS-L) packaging technology that will allow it to build larger Super Carrier interposers. Aimed at the 2025 time span, the next generation of TSMC’s CoWoS technology will allow for interposers reaching up…

AMD and Samsung could team up for a new wave of super-fast Chromebooks

Have you ever used a Chromebook with an AMD processor? I have, but I’m in the minority there – most Chrome-powered laptops are powered by Intel CPUs.In fact, if you take a look at our list of the best Chromebooks, you won’t see a single AMD chip to be found; the processors are all either…

Intel IFS Partners Up With Arm To Develop Improved Arm IP Designs for Intel’s 18A Node

In 2016, Intel’s now-defunct Custom Foundry business and Arm teamed up to bring Arm’s Artisan Physical IP and POP IP for its ARM Cortex-A processor cores to Intel’s 10nm process. What was meant to be a long-term deal and collaboration subsequently turned out to be anything but, as Intel closed its Custom Foundry Business in…

A new Arm deal means your next mobile device could use a next-gen Intel SoC

Intel and Arm just struck a deal that could change the way future mobile devices are powered, not to mention a whole slew of digital devices in every category of use.While Intel has long made the best processors on the planet for PCs and laptops,  it hasn’t been as involved in low-powered, lightweight semiconductors like…

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