Disparity in chipmakers' R&D budgets
Nvidia surges ahead of AMD and Intel
Tech Fund has revealed a significant disparity in research and development (R&D) budgets between competing hardware makers AMD and Nvidia. Troubled Intel appears weaker than both despite its vast R&D expenditure.
IC Foundries focusing on 10nm
Half of R&D spent on new processing
More than half of the IC foundries combined R&D budgets are being spent researching 10nm, according to Applied Materials Taiwan president Erix Yu.
Qualcomm will not break up
Does not want to be a patent troll when it grows up
Qualcomm has decided that it is not in its best interested to flog off its chipmaking business and stick to becoming a patent troll.
Samsung guts R&D staff
Two thirds to go
Samsung Electronics is about to decrease personnel at its Samsung Seoul R&D Campus by as many as two-thirds in order to restructure its business model and operations
TSMC to invest $1.4 billion in ASML
Lithography systems maker to advance chip making by two years
Patent trolls cost US companies $29 billion in 2011
Study reveals
Intel, IBM and Globalfoundries build R&D hub
Looking for things to come
British can't come up with new ideas
Cutting back too much on research