Two Chip Chiefs Say the AI Bottleneck Is Turning Into Money
The men who sell the chips say the thing holding back artificial intelligence may no longer be the chips. Broadcom chief executive Hock Tan and Intel chief executive Lip-Bu Tan,…
PC Processor Prices Climb as Intel, Qualcomm and AMD Pass Along Costs
The notices went out to PC makers in Taiwan first, which is how most of the industry learns what its components will cost. Intel raised prices on several families of…
A Five-Year-Old Intel Socket Readies Itself for New Chips
For PC builders, the most consequential Intel news of the week did not come from Intel. It came from Gigabyte, the Taiwanese motherboard maker, which posted a BIOS update on…
Nvidia May Turn to Intel for Chip Packaging by 2028
Intel’s foundry has spent years chasing a customer whose name would settle the question of whether the business can compete. A report this week holds out that customer, in the…
Intel and Applied Materials Team Up on the Next Chip Process
Intel and Applied Materials said they would expand a research partnership to jointly develop the process technology and materials behind the next generation of AI chips. The announcement, made on…
Musk Moves to Keep His Texas Chip Factory to Himself
The correction landed on X with the force of a door slamming. A user had posted that the most likely outcome for Terafab, Elon Musk’s planned AI chip complex in…
Samsung Electro-Mechanics Adds $1.85 Billion in Vietnam
The factory sits in an industrial park in Thai Nguyen province, a two-hour drive north of Hanoi, where Samsung has been making electronics for more than a decade. The plant,…
Musk’s Chip Venture Opens Talks With TSMC
Elon Musk has spent years trying to buy his way out of dependence on other companies’ chips. His next move may be to build them himself. On October 3, Musk…
Intel’s Nova Lake Chips Clear USB4 and PCIe 5.0 Certification
Intel’s next generation of processors, code-named Nova Lake, has passed compliance and interoperability testing for two standards that desktop and laptop buyers will notice, according to certification records that hardware…
SoftBank Memory Unit and Shinko Sign Deal on Z-Angle Memory
SoftBank’s young memory venture has found a Japanese packaging partner for its attempt to break into a market ruled by three Korean and American giants. Saimemory, the memory subsidiary SoftBank…
