Chipzilla bets the farm on 14A while chasing TSMC

Troubled Chipzilla is doubling down on ASML’s obscenely expensive High-NA EUV lithography kit, ordering two more of the €350 million-plus contraptions in the hope of dragging its much-hyped 14A process over the line.

Hopes Job’s Mob can bail it out of financial quagmire

Troubled Chipzilla is reportedly rattling the tin at the Fruity Cargo Cult Apple, hoping the iPhone maker might toss a few billion its way to keep the lights on at Intel Foundry Services.

HBM4e push

Micron has started throwing its weight around in the memory arena again, claiming that its new HBM4 samples are not only the fastest around but sip power better than anything rivals have to offer.

Chipmaker has 15 customers, most chasing high-performance computing

TSMC’s 2nm process is pulling in orders at a cracking pace, with senior management at wafer inspection outfit KLA letting slip that 15 customers have already signed up. Ten of them are gunning for high-performance computing, showing just how much the AI craze is fattening demand for Intel and Samsung's rival.

Wants nearly 40 per cent of global mobile share

MediaTek has unveiled its Dimensity 9500, a 5G flagship chip built on TSMC’s N3P process and pitched as “super powerful and super cool.”

US government and big tech should carve up struggling giant

Troubled Chipzilla should be taken private, stripped apart, and rebuilt into a proper foundry and design house, according to four long-serving former directors writing in Fortune.

Hopes new chip erases 3nm humiliation 

Samsung will start mass production of its Exynos 2600 by the end of September, making it the first SoC built on the company’s 2nm Gate-All-Around process.

Grabs more than half of 2026 output, leaving rivals in the dust

The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple has reportedly signed up for more than half of TSMC’s 2nm production capacity in 2026, effectively elbowing rivals out of the queue for the world’s most advanced silicon.

Nvidia’s cash will not fix Intel’s mess without a split

Troubled Chipzilla scored a temporary win when Nvidia lobbed it a $5 billion bone, but if Intel thinks that is enough to crawl back into relevance, it is dreaming, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Deal will bring RTX GPU chiplets to Intel x86 SoCs

Nvidia and Intel have announced a "collaboration" to develop multiple generations of datacenter and PC consumer products. Tucked in the PR announcement is that Nvidia is investing $5 billion in Intel's common stock at a price of $23.28. Both CEOs will conduct a webcast press conference at 10 a.m. Pacific time (1 p.m. Eastern time).