Tag: chips
The quality of USB drives is getting worse thanks to re-used and often defective NAND chips including some from known brands
Micron to invest $3.6B for Japanese production of DRAM chips
Chipmaker Micron Technologies plans to invest up to 500 billion yen ($3.6 billion) to bring extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV) to Japan, making them the first company to bring this production method to the country.
Extreme ultraviolet lithography (EVU) is used in the most advanced semiconductor device fabrication and Micron plans to use machines powered by this technology to make the next generation of dynamic random access memory (DRAM), also known as 1-gamma chips, at its Hiroshima plant.
DRAM chips are widely used in digital electronics where low-cost and high-capacity memory is required.
: Micron may get $1.5 billion from Japan to make advanced chips: report
Apple Begins Testing Speedy M3 Chips That Could Feature 12 CPU Cores
Apple is testing an M3 chipset with a 12-core processor and 18-core GPU, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. In his latest Power On newsletter, Gurman reports a source sent him App Store developer logs that show the chip running on an unannounced MacBook Pro with macOS 14. He speculates the M3 variant Apple is testing is the base-level M3 Pro the company plans to release sometime next year…
[T]he M3 Pro reportedly features 50 percent more CPU cores than its first-generation predecessor.
From Gurman’s original article:
I’m sure you’re wondering: How can Apple possibly fit that many cores on a chip? The answer is the 3-nanometer manufacturing process, which the company will be switching to with its M3 line. That approach allows for higher-density chips, meaning a designer can fit more cores into an already small processor.
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Oppo gives up on building custom chips for its flagship phones
Chinese phone manufacturer Oppo is shuttering its Zeku chip development division and letting go of its internal System-on-Chip (SoC) design aspirations, according to the South China Morning Post. The news comes as worldwide smartphone sales continue to decline and the US carries on with chip export restrictions.
Bloomberg reports Oppo’s Zeku division was set up in 2019 and carried about 200 patents in its Shanghai division. Like Apple, Oppo started making its own co-processors for imaging and other smartphone components but had not successfully launched its own SoC to get away from relying on other companies for the most significant chip in the device.
Oppo’s most recent releases include the Oppo Find N2 Flip, which is powered by a…
Neo Semiconductor launches 3D X-DRAM, world-first technology for 3D DRAM memory chips
NEO Semiconductor says 3D X-DRAM is the world’s first 3D NAND-like technology for DRAM memory, a solution developed to solve DRAM’s capacity bottleneck while replacing the “entire 2D DRAM market.” The company states its solution is better than competing products, as it’s much more convenient than other options on the…
Microsoft reportedly rallies behind AMD to develop chips for AI workloads
Microsoft and AMD could be partnering on AI chips
Earlier this week, we learned that Microsoft might be interested in following the Apple recipe of developing custom silicon for its ambitions. However, this shouldn’t surprise anyone watching the tech industry, as pretty much all tech giants are working on their own chips. Facebook, Amazon, Google, Baidu, and others are…
TSMC To Charge Up To 30% More For Chips Made In the US
While American chip designers certainly won’t appreciate higher costs on chip production in the U.S., it is likely that they will make chips aimed at government and less price-sensitive applications in Arizona. Therefore, they should be able to pass those extra costs on to their customers without risking their competitive positions. Given the high construction and operational costs of fabs in Japan and the U.S., TSMC is going to pass those extra expenses on to customers to maintain its gross margin target of 53%.
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