MediaTek 10-core SoC employs huge.Medium.TINY design
Cortex-A72 backed by a squad of A53s
MediaTek appears to be working on a monstrous 10-core smartphone chip, based on ARM’s latest CPU cores.
TSMC will have 10nm fab by middle of next year
Breaking ground in June
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) will break ground for a new fab at its 12-inch wafer plant in central Taiwan in June.
Qualcomm to tap Samsung for Snapdragon 820
New sources confirm old rumour
It appears that rumours of Qualcomm’s plans to ditch TSMC in favour of Samsung were spot on.
Intel downgrades Kittson
Itanium chugs on and but it will be overweight
Chipzilla has been making mutterings about its much neglected Itanium product, which seem to indicate that it will be downgraded to an elderly process
Moore's Law did not turn 50 over the weekend
But I nearly am damnit
While the press is banging on about Moore's Law turning 50 over the weekend, like many things in the US press, it is completely wrong.