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The world’s largest manufacturer of advanced semiconductors, TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.), has shut down some chip production lines and evacuated employees from its plants. This happened after the strongest earthquake in Taiwan in 25 years. This was reported by Bloomberg. The company is a major contract chip manufacturer for Apple and NVIDIA. Now it […]
NVIDIA has announced the creation of a new division that will specialize in the development of customized chips for cloud service providers and other key customers. This move is part of the company’s strategy to dominate the market for specialized chips for artificial intelligence (AI) and ensure competitiveness in the face of an increasing number […]
Apple will be the first company to receive chips manufactured using TSMC’s upcoming 2-nanometer process, DigiTimes reports. According to the publication’s sources, Apple is “considered to be the first customer to use this technological process.” TSMC is expected to start producing 2nm chips in the second half of 2025. Terms such as “3nm” and “2nm” […]
Taiwan’s semiconductor leader TSMC has gained a monopoly on the production of the new generation of Snapdragon 8 processors. According to TrendForce, citing sources from TechNews, TSMC was chosen as the sole manufacturer of these chips. What is known about this decision Usually Qualcomm distributes its orders among several manufacturers, but this time they decided […]
TSMC this week broke ground on a state-of-the-art facility in Arizona. Before the ceremony, the Taiwanese company made a statement in which it talked about its future plans. As it turned out, the manufacturer intends to build two factories in the United States at once. The first enterprise will appear by 2024 and will produce […]