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U.S. issues worldwide crackdown on using Huawei Ascend chips, says it violates export controls

While scrapping the AI Diffusion Rule, the U.S. government has banned Huawei's Ascend AI processors as they allegedly use American technologies without authorization.

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Tariffs and TSMC delays could turn Apple into an Intel Foundry customer

During a conversation at the J.P. Morgan's Global Technology, Media, and Communications conference in Boston, Intel's CFO David Zinsner confirmed that Intel doesn't have a significant volume of external chips. At least on the 18A process node but things should change with 14A.

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Intel admits it doesn't have any 'significant' commitments from customers to make advanced chips in its fabs

That all-important 18A node has yet to convince the likes of Nvidia or AMD to jump onboard.

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Protection Racket? Asian Semiconductor Giants Fear Looming Tariffs

Inside one of South Korea's oldest semiconductor research institutes, the cleanrooms and workshops are calm and immaculate, but outside the Seoul National University campus, a chip storm is brewing.

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Chinese researchers develop silicon-free transistor technology, claimed to be fastest and most efficient ever - here's what we know

2D transistor offering 40% faster speeds and lower energy use may soon disrupt the global chip market - if China can successfully scale production.

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AMD 6th Gen EPYC 9006 Venice CPUs reportedly offer up to 96 Zen 6 or 256 Zen 6c cores

New details allege AMD's next-generation Zen 6 dense CCDs will carry up to 32 cores and 128MB of L3 cache, with 12 cores and 48MB for the standard CCDs.

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Lenovo's in-house Arm chip could rival Qualcomm and MediaTek, spotted in Yoga Pad Pro 2-in-1 convertible

Lenovo is reportedly working on a custom in-house SoC for its Yoga Pad Pro family, rumored to be built on TSMC's 5nm process.

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Former SK hynix employee transferred advanced chip packaging technologies to Huawei

A former SK Hynix employee has been charged with stealing wafer bonding and image sensor technologies to secure a job at Huawei’s HiSilicon, raising alarm over tech IP leaks to China.

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TSMC’s $65B AI factories are rising in Phoenix. But Route 66 towns know how quickly boom turns to bust

As Phoenix bets big on AI with TSMC's new semiconductor fabrication factories, Arizona’s Route 66 towns reveal what it takes to survive technological upheaval.

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Ampere sneaks out a 192-core CPU with 12-channel DDR5 memory

Ampere expands lineup of AmpereOne CPUs with AmpereOne M processors featuring a 12-channel DDR5 memory subsystem that can address 3TB of DRAM.

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Arrow Lake die shot shows off the details of Intel's chiplet-based design

Die shots of an Arrow Lake desktop CPU have been published online, revealing the inner design changes Intel has made to Arrow Lake, including its all-new chiplet (tile)-based design and improvements to the cache design.

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Apple expects to source over 19 billion chips from U.S. factories this year

Apple plans to source over 19 billion chips from U.S. facilities in 2025 — including tens of millions from TSMC’s Arizona fab — while investing $500 billion to expand its American operations.

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Intel hedges its bet for High-NA EUV with the 14A process node — an alternate Low-NA technique has identical yield and design rules

Intel has not yet fully committed to using the new High-NA EUV chipmaking tool in production and has an alternative production flow of its 14A node that uses standard Low-NA EUV as a backup plan.

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Intel's all-important Panther Lake mobile chip rumoured to launch later this year with just one model and it won't be getting the exciting graphics option

Only four Celestial-spec GPU cores at launch, not the full-fat 12-core variant.

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TSMC SVP Kevin Zhang opens up on process technology development & evolving demands: Interview

TSMC is evolving its strategy by developing distinct leading-edge process technologies optimized for AI, client, and HPC applications, while maintaining aggressive scaling with innovations like backside power delivery and second-generation nanosheet transistors.

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'China is right behind us': Jensen Huang says we need to 'accelerate the diffusion of American AI technology around the world'

Is more exports or less exports in the American interest?

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Intel's 14A chips might finally prove a match for Apple Silicon

Intel announced performance metrics for its upcoming 14A silicon process node during the Intel Foundry Direct Connect event in San Jose on Tuesday.

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TSMC starts construction its 1.6nm and 2nm-capable U.S. fab: Fab 21 phase 3

TSMC breaks ground for its third Fab 21 module in the U.S., which will produce chips on A16 and N2 process technologies towards the end of the decade.

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TSMC committed to Arizona chip plant ahead of potential tariff impact

With its first plant in full swing and its second now scaling up production, TSMC starts work on its third US chip plant.

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Taiwan Semi Just Announced Its New A14 Tech. Should You Buy TSM Stock Now?

Taiwan Semiconductor just announced its cutting-edge A14 technology at its North American Symposium.

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Huawei Ascend AI 910D processor designed to take on Nvidia's Blackwell and Rubin GPUs

Huawei's Ascend 910D AI accelerator is expected to match Nvidia's H100 performance on the GPU level, with full systems based on the Ascend 910D set to compete against Nvidia's Blackwell and Rubin based pods.

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Tom’s Hardware Innovation Awards 2025: Surprise and Delight

These are the most innovative products of the last year.

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Intel Foundry Roadmap Update - New 18A-PT variant that enables 3D die stacking, 14A process node enablement

Intel's new CEO Lip Bu-Tan took to the stage at the company's Intel Foundry Direct 2025 event here in San Jose, California to outline the company's progress on its foundry initiative.

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Taiwan to drop new law restricting TSMC from allowing foreign fabs to produce leading edge nodes after company's $100 billion investment in US facilities

The law's designed to keep other countries one node behind Taiwan at all times.

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Taiwan's government strengthens 'silicon shield,' restricts exports of TSMC's most advanced process technologies

Taiwan is set to enforce strict controls on outbound semiconductor investments and advanced process technology exports under the amended Industrial Innovation Act, but uncertainty remains over how the government will define and restrict its future flagship nodes.

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