Intel claws second place as Samsung stumbles over its yields

TSMC is still lording it over the global chip foundry racket, holding on to a 35 per cent grip on what is dubbed the "Foundry 2.0" which covers everything from photomask manufacturing to chip packaging alongside the usual silicon stamping.

Bets farm on 2nm

Samsung’s foundry arm is pressing pause on its hyped 1.4nm production ambitions, opting instead to dump resources into its slightly less disastrous 2nm process.

Dimensity 8450 could plug gap left by weak in-house silicon

MediaTek has  rolled out its Dimensity 8450 chip at the India Dimensity Summit, offering a lightly reworked version of the 8400 it pushed out in December 2024. The real eyebrow-raiser, though, was Samsung turning up to the launch. 

Beats Samsung and Micron

SK hynix has pulled ahead of its memory rivals by bagging NVIDIA’s first HBM4 orders, giving the South Korean chipmaker a premium position for the launch of Nvidia's Rubin GPUs.

“Google incident” forces soul‑searching at Samsung 

Google’s decision to dump Samsung for TSMC to make its Tensor chips has reportedly caused chaos behind closed doors in South Korea.

Korean giant risks IP leak in rumoured China supply tie-up

Samsung could end up handing over some of its crown jewels to China to cut costs on its next-generation chips and displays.

The answer to years of failure could be to admit it can't do everything

The cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street reckon Troubled Chipzilla might need to smash itself into pieces if it wants to claw out of its long-running tech and financial woes, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal.

Built on 2 nm

Qualcomm looks set to shake up its flagship chip strategy by splitting the upcoming Snapdragon 8 Elite 3 into two variants fabbed using TSMC’s 2 nm process.

Chip to power Galaxy S26, if it survives yield roulette

Samsung is throwing everything behind its Exynos 2600, a mobile chip meant to both revive its self-made application processor line and prove its foundry isn’t bluffing with the 2nm node hype.

It was supposed to distract from Apple's AI woes but has only made it worse

Apple Fanboys are furious that their fruity cargo cult’s leaders thought that turning to Windows Vista for inspiration would somehow distract them from the fact that the company can’t get its AI to go.