'There might be a party. I wasn't invited,' says Jensen Huang of the rumoured TSMC proposal to join forces and run Intel's chip fabs Throwing doubt on rumours of TSMC's multi-company proposal. PC Gamer · Mar 20, 2025
SoftBank to acquire Arm CPUs for datacenter firm Ampere in $6.5 billion cash deal SoftBank buys Ampere for $6.5 billion in cash, may use them in Stargate datacenters. Tom’s Hardware · Mar 20, 2025
Nvidia will spend hundreds of billions on US manufacturing, says CEO Chipmaker’s promise is a sign that Trump’s ‘America First’ policy is affecting investment The Guardian - UK · Mar 20, 2025
While we despair of RTX 50-series supplies and wait on next-gen Rubin, Nvidia reveals its next-next GPU architecture will be known as Feynman and is due in 2028 Blackwell will beget Rubin and only then will we get Feynman PC Gamer · Mar 19, 2025
Ohio officials hopeful Intel gets plant funds targeted by Trump - Roll Call President Donald Trump called for a rollback of billions for U.S. microchip plants, possibly threatening funds for Intel and others. Roll Call · Mar 19, 2025
Nvidia’s new silicon photonics-based 400 Tb/s switch platforms enable clusters with millions of GPUs Nvidia teams up with TSMC for its first silicon photonics networking gear platforms that will open doors to datacenters with millions of GPUs. Tom’s Hardware · Mar 18, 2025
Meta powers ahead with conscious chip uncoupling with Nvidia as it tests its first in-house training AI-PU Reports say Meta’s in-house AI training CPU, produced by TSMC, is almost ready for deployment. TechRadar · Mar 15, 2025
The week in chip news: Intel gets a new CEO, China chip smuggling, AMD dominates We cover the biggest stories of the week. Tom’s Hardware · Mar 15, 2025
Taiwan Semiconductor’s Huge U.S. Move—Stock Impact Ahead What does Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing's $100 billion investment in the United States mean for shares of this chip giant? MarketBeat · Mar 15, 2025
If you don't let us scrape copyrighted content, we will lose out to China says OpenAI as it tries to influence US government The company also tries to frame its scraping as covered by the 'fair use doctrine'. PC Gamer · Mar 13, 2025
Intel's incoming Malaysian-born CEO is the latest Fortune 500 semiconductor exec to hail from Asia Lip-Bu Tan, who was born in Malaysia and went to university in Singapore, will take over as Intel's CEO on March 18. The news sent shares up over 10%. Fortune · Mar 13, 2025
TSMC’s $100 billion U.S. investment won't shake up the supply chain: ‘Most of TSMC’s capacity is still in Taiwan’ In recent days, Taiwan's government and TSMC have come out to say that the chipmaker's decision was not due to Washington pressure. Fortune · Mar 13, 2025
Here comes Intel's new CEO: a semiconductor veteran that won the same prestigious award as Jensen Huang and Lisa Su Lip-Bu Tan has a degree in physics, a masters in nuclear engineering, and won the semiconductor industry's top award, the Robert N. Noyce award. PC Gamer · Mar 12, 2025
Return of the gigahertz wars: New Chinese transistor uses bismuth instead of silicon to potentially sock it to Intel and TSMC with 40% more speed 7 GHz-plus computing here we come...? PC Gamer · Mar 12, 2025
Tom’s Hardware · Mar 12, 2025 TSMC and Intel foundry joint venture reportedly still in the works — AMD, Broadcom, and Nvidia approached TSMC reportedly asked its biggest customers to invest in joint venture that would operate Intel's production facilities.
PC Gamer · Mar 12, 2025 So, wait, now TSMC is supposedly pitching a joint venture with Nvidia, AMD and Broadcom to run Intel's ailing chip fabs? And it's all because of Donald Trump? This story will run and run...
Tom’s Hardware · Mar 12, 2025 Repealing the CHIPS Act could dramatically shrink US chip market share, analysts say While Trump has recommended legislators revoke the CHIPS and Science Act, it's unlikely to happen and the government is obliged to distribute $39 billion grants by September 2026. But if it did happen, analysts say it could dramatically shrink the US chip production market share.
MarketBeat · Mar 11, 2025 3 Stocks Investing $650 Billion in the U.S.—Should You Invest? See which three large-cap stocks are planning to invest a total of over $650 billion in the United States over the next several years.
Tom’s Hardware · Mar 10, 2025 Huawei reportedly acquired two million Ascend 910 AI chips from TSMC last year through shell companies According to CSIS, Huawei has millions of AI chips from SMIC despite yield problems.
Fortune · Mar 10, 2025 Chinese advances like DeepSeek have ‘narrowed’ AI gap with U.S., says CSIS think tank: ‘Unrealistic to expect a lead of more than a year or two’ "DeepSeek’s technological innovations are real," Gregory Allen, director of CSIS’s Wadhwani AI Center, wrote on Friday.
Tom’s Hardware · Mar 9, 2025 AMD's Zen 6-based desktop processors may feature up to 24 cores AMD's Zen 6-based CPUs will feature 12-core CCDs, therefore up to 24 cores in AM5 configurations.
Laptop · Mar 8, 2025 Trump highlights TSMC investment while calling for CHIPS Act repeal The president called the legislation a "horrible, horrible thing."
PC Gamer · Mar 7, 2025 Intel is still using TSMC for 30% of its wafer demands: 'We were talking about trying to get that to zero as quickly as possible. That's no longer the strategy' So, not much has changed then.
PC Gamer · Mar 7, 2025 President Trump wants to kill the $52 billion CHIPS Act: 'a horrible, horrible thing' Trump wants to use tariffs rather than subsidies to encourage US made tech.
The Guardian - AU · Mar 7, 2025 Taiwan hails ‘historic’ TSMC deal with US, but will it lose the ‘silicon shield’ protecting it from China? The producer of the world’s most advanced chip technology is investing on US soil but some fear that could reduce the leverage Taiwan holds to ensure its future security