2017-01-06 - Rick Merritt

Intel announces plans for 5G modem at CES

The so-called Gold Ridge baseband chip will support either 28GHz or sub-6GHz transceivers, which Intel is already sampling.

2017-01-03 - Alan Patterson

TSMC refutes ‘lagging’ reports, insists 10nm on track

Intel, Samsung and TSMC have been vying to be first with 10nm SoCs and capture profits from foundry customers such…

2016-12-12 - Vivek Nanda

5 companies corner 41% semiconductor market

Driven partly by M&A activity, fewer semiconductor companies are influencing a bigger share of the market, said IC Insights.

2016-11-18 - Rick Merritt

Machine learning may be Intel’s critical inflection point

Intel dominates the high margin market for server processors, but machine learning demands more performance on highly parallel tasks.

2016-11-18 - Rick Merritt

Intel ‘working on’ support for 7 machine learning frameworks

The new Knights Mill version of Xeon Phi coming next year will be optimised for the toughest AI jobs such…

2016-11-03 - Rick Merritt

US sets up chip study group exploring China, Moore’s law

The group will look at ways to strengthen the U.S. industry in the face of competition from China and the…

2016-10-19 - Rick Merritt

Samsung’s plans to ship 10nm SoCs in full sail

The 10LPE process uses triple-patterning lithography to deliver up to a 30% area shrink, 27% higher performance or 40% lower…

2016-10-19 - Rick Merritt

Samsung losing foundry share in 2016

Samsung’s slowdown is in part due to expectations TSMC is grabbing most of the business making Apple A-series processors in…

2016-08-23 - Peter Clarke

Intel foundry takes a helping ARM

Intel Custom Foundry agrees to a full support package for ARM intellectual property on the upcoming 10nm FinFET manufacturing process.

2016-08-19 - Rick Merritt

Injecting Realsense into products

Intel has announced products integrating RealSense technology, including a board for building a self-navigating drone.