Chipzilla returning to greatness with 18A node
Nvidia, Google, and Microsoft sniff around Intel’s foundry comeback
Troubled Chipzilla might finally be catching a break. After years of being flattened by TSMC’s relentless march and its own comically late roadmap slips, Intel’s foundry arm may have stumbled onto its redemption arc with the 18A process.
US trade ban slaps $1.5bn hole in AMD’s results
Su says AI demand remains strong despite MI308 blockade
AMD warned that new US export rules will cost it $1.5 billion in lost sales this year, mainly due to a ban on shipping its MI308 chips to China.
Nvidia and MediaTek plot Arm-based PC coup
New chip could rattle Qualcomm, Chipzilla and AMD at Computex
Nvidia and MediaTek are teaming up to launch an Arm-based chip for AI-ready Windows PCs. The official reveal is set for Computex 2025.
Arrow Lake die shots show Chipzilla's chiplet gamble
Looks slick, plays slow, and still can't beat its own last-gen gear
Troubled Chipzilla has taken its trousers down to show off the innards of Arrow Lake, and while the chiplet-based design is a visual treat, it’s struggling to keep up where it matters in games.
TSMC's 2nm chips on track
AMD beats Apple and Intel to tape-out
TSMC's 2nm process node is cruising through development and is already showing better defect rates than 3nm and 7nm did at the same stage.
Intel dangles 3D cache tease
Trying to copy AMD
Chipzilla might have found a way to copy AMD’s X3D cache magic, using its shiny new 18A-PT process and hybrid bonding trickery.
Chipzilla is king of packaging
Intel plays the packaging card to keep customers
Troubled Chipzilla has decided the path to foundry salvation runs straight through the packaging plant. It’s now shouting from the rooftops that its real ace in the silicon arms race isn’t process nodes but how it wraps the goods.
Chipzilla’s Battlemage “G31” leaks
New ARC GPU push
Troubled Chipzilla has apparently slipped another ARC Battlemage graphics card into the pipeline, as a new “G31” model turned up in a shipping manifest en route to Intel Vietnam.
Intel adds AI and mass-market twists to 18A node
Chipzilla’s CEO Lip-Bu Tan leans into realism
Troubled Chipzilla is stretching its long-promised 18A process into two new variants aimed at feeding the AI beast and mainstream punters.
TSMC chickens out of high-NA EUV for A14
Bets on old-school lithography to dodge soaring costs
TSMC, once the trendy pioneer of bleeding-edge chipmaking, is now pulling a handbrake turn on high-NA EUV adoption.