Diamonds are chip’s best friend
Chip cooling sparkles
Akash Systems has secured a "non-binding preliminary memorandum of terms" for $18.2 million in CHIPS Act funding to scale up the production of its diamond-cooled semiconductors.
Chip industry leaders warn against nationalist policies
Obstacles to business operations
CEOs of Europe's three largest computer chip manufacturers have expressed concerns over the increasing demands by the US, Chinese, and European governments for regional semiconductor production.
TSMC executive calls for stronger R&D
Worried about US support following Trump Victory
A top TSMC boss Cliff Hou said that Taiwan should intensify its investment in chip technology and expand its supply chain capabilities to secure its role as a global semiconductor leader.
Intel surprises Wall Street
It appears that a turnaround is happening
Chipzilla appears to have surprised Wall Street's cocaine nose jobs by returning with much better-than-expected results.
Arm threatens Qualcomm
Will take your licence away if you don’t pull your socks up
British chip design firm Arm has warned Qualcomm that it will take away its chip design licence, escalating a legal dispute that has been ongoing since 2022.
Nvidia's using its own AI to make more chips
ChipNeMo speeds up the process
Companies are desperate for Nvidia's limited supply of GPUs — used to train and build AI products — as the AI sector goes mad. Now, the chip giant is using its AI to make its chips faster to keep up with the demand.
China starting to ignore US chips
Bad news for the US
Just as we predicted the US embargo against supplying chips to China has backfired and now Middle Kingdom companies are buying locally.
Banned Chinese decryption chips used by US military
They are even on a list
While the US government is increasingly paranoid about Chinese hardware containing spyware, the US military does not appear to have gotten the memo.
It might not be difficult for China to catch up on chips
There are not that many patents that need circumventing
The Chinese government will not have that many difficulties working their way around US trade sanctions on chips, according to China’s Academy of Science.
Russian plans to build their own chips stalled
We can design them but no one will make them for us
Tsar Putin’s plan to churn out computer chips so that Russia can stick two fingers up at leading Western CPU makers such as AMD and Intel have stalled completely because he can’t find anyone to build the chips.