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Intel claims 18A, the node Pat bet the company on, is either 25% faster or 38% more efficient than Intel 3. Though that's a node Intel didn't have enough faith in to release for desktops or laptops

A tricky comparison, given there are no Intel 3 chips in PCs.

PC Gamer

Intel's next-gen Nova Lake CPU rumoured to get up to 52 cores, over double the count of Arrow Lake across all segments

Mid-range Nova Lake has more cores than high-end Arrow Lake, natch.

PC Gamer

Taiwan bans chip exports to Huawei, SMIC — ban comes after Huawei tricked TSMC into making two million AI processors despite US restrictions

Two of the most important companies behind China’s semiconductor self-sufficiency and AI supremacy hopes were dealt a blow on Saturday, with their addition to Taiwan’s strategic high-tech commodities entity list.

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Taiwan adds China’s Huawei and SMIC to export control list

Taiwan’s Commerce Ministry has added Chinese chipmakers Huawei Technologies and Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp to its export control list, as trade and technology frictions between the self-ruled island, China and the United States increase

The Independent UK

Patent reveals Huawei's quad-chiplet rival for Nvidia's Rubin AI GPUs could use packaging tech that rivals TSMC — Ascend 910D rumors have seemingly solid foundation

Huawei has reportedly developed a chip packaging process technology for its Ascend 910D processor that is comparable to TSMC's leading-edge CoWoS technology.

Tom’s Hardware

AMD unwraps 2027 AI plans: Verano CPU, Instinct MI500X GPU, next-gen AI rack

AMD plans to launch its second-generation rack-scale AI platform in 2027 with EPYC 'Verano' CPUs, Instinct MI500X GPUs, and Vulcano 800 GbE NICs, accelerating its roadmap to an annual cadence.

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GeForce RTX 5050 listed with 2,560 CUDA cores and 2,250 MHz boost clock

German IT company Kiebel reveals the specifications for Nvidia's unreleased GeForce RTX 5050 graphics card.

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TSMC slows down global plans due to soft demand, but accelerates Arizona fab plans by six months for A16 / N2 production

TSMC's $165 billion U.S. investment gets speed boost

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Tesla details how it finds punishing defective cores on its million-core Dojo supercomputers — a single error can ruin a weeks-long AI training run

Tesla's Stress tool detects and disables faulty cores in Dojo wafer-scale processors, which power Dojo clusters with millions of cores, without interrupting AI training.

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'Rising ASIC coalition' seeks to jettison Nvidia — Industry report claims firms are accelerating development in order to reduce dependence on the giant

Industry reports claim that ASIC shipments are projected to rise at a compound annual growth rate of 50%. This growth is largely attributed to top cloud hyperscalers such as Google, AWS, and Meta seeking to move away from reliance on Nvidia hardware.

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Elon Musk's SpaceX to build its own advanced chip packaging factory in Texas – 700mm x 700mm substrate size purported to be the largest in the industry

Elon Musk reportedly plans to move some chip packaging capabilities in-house at SpaceX.

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GlobalFoundries announces $16 billion U.S. chip production spend — striking spending boom follows demand from domestic customers

Contract fab GlobalFoundries has announced a commitment to spend $16 billion on plant expansion and advanced packaging research. The move comes with no expected spending date.

Tom’s Hardware

TSMC Joins NVIDIA in UAE Push, Fueling Growth Outlook

Taiwan Semiconductor company just announced a new development in the UAE, locking in further financial growth and upside for investors.

MarketBeat

Nvidia accused of poaching TSMC engineers in Taiwan – up to $180,000 salaries offered for talent

The media in Taiwan have highlighted the lucrative compensation packages being used to tempt engineers to fill key roles and fuel Nvidia’s ambitious expansion plans.

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Intel Nova Lake CPUs reportedly get a GPU overhaul — Xe3 Celestial and Xe4 Druid IPs used for graphics, media, and display

Intel's next-gen Nova Lake CPUs for desktops are expected to use Xe3 (Celestial) for the integrated graphics, while media and display move to Xe4 (Druid).

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TSMC could charge up to $45,000 for 1.6nm wafers — rumors allege a 50% increase in pricing over prior-gen wafers

TSMC is preparing to begin 2nm chip production with wafer prices reportedly reaching $30,000 and potentially $45,000 for more advanced nodes like A16, driven by the complexity of backside power delivery.

PC Gamer

TSMC boss claims the chipmaker doesn't need to pick winners to work with, just wait patiently 'because they will all come to us in the end'

If you build it, they will come.

Fortune

Nvidia’s chips are among the world's hottest commodities. So why is the company likely trashing $4.5 billion worth of them?

Nvidia's options for the chips, originally destined for China, but since banned from export there, are limited.

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The world's biggest chip maker TSMC says it still can't keep up with demand for AI hardware despite tariff uncertainty

Oh well, looks like gaming GPUs are still going to be hard to come by.

Tom’s Hardware

TSMC quashes UAE fab rumors, but says AI demand remains fierce in the face of tariff pressures

CEO C.C. Wei says AI demand is consistently outpacing supply

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TSMC reopening discussions with Washington to build chip manufacturing plant in UAE — report

TSMC is allegedly in talks with Washington to consider the possibility of opening an advanced chip fab in the Middle East.

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The RX 9070 XT might not be the truly mid-range graphics card I'm still dreaming of but it turned my latest sci-fi PC build into a frame rate menace

Quiet, cool collected, Tron-themed (sort of), thanks to the Evolv X2 and a ton of Lian Li fans, this machine slaps.

Tom’s Hardware

TSMC reiterates it doesn't need High-NA EUV for 1.4nm-class process technology

TSMC reaffirmed that it will not use High-NA EUV lithography for its upcoming A16 and A14 process technologies, as Low-NA EUV tools combined with internal innovations provide sufficient scaling and performance benefits.

Tom’s Hardware

TSMC to open up chip design center in Munich to help local chip developers

TSMC will open its first European chip design center in Munich to support European developers with design technology co-optimization for both mature and advanced nodes.

Tom’s Hardware

AI chip boom sparks BT substrate materials shortage — TSMC's huge demand causes supply disruptions for NAND flash controllers, SSDs

TSMC's demand for CoWoS material has cascaded to impact suppliers of BT substrate base materials, causing the memory market to react quickly to avoid shortages and other negative effects.

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