A proposed Chipmaker's Visa could reform H-1B, but will Congress go for it?
The H1-B visa is used for foreign workers in specialty occupations, essential to the US tech industry
Semiconductor articles
IDC predicts a 20% growth rate for the semiconductor market in 2024
The downturn period experienced in 2023 will soon leave room for a stellar recovery
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger says Moore's Law isn't dead, but it has slowed down
Transistors have been doubling every three years instead of two
A 2nm-capable wafer fab will come with a $28 billion tag, up to 50% more costly than 3nm
The costs of producing 2nm chips
Intel CEO claims 18A node will at least match TSMC's N2 performance and beat it to market
TSMC thinks N3P will outperform 18A, but Intel will introduce gate-all-around first
Lattice showcases real-world FPGA usage by BMW, Meta and Nvidia
Lattice Semi expands offerings of midrange FPGAs
TSMC chairman: Nvidia will become the world's largest semiconductor company by year's end
The AI hype train is driving the GPU company to new heights
Tech giants and the evolving productivity landscape
Qualcomm does indeed have 50,000-ish employees, double those of Nvidia and AMD
Why it matters: After looking at revenue and operating income per employee for big semiconductor companies, we thought that was a fun exercise, so we have looked at another dozen tech companies in various sectors. Broadcom and Apple are in a league of their own – it is good to have a software or licensing business.
China's YMTC claims Micron infringed on its 3D NAND patents
The latest battle in the US-China tech war will be fought in a California court
CPU makers are experimenting with alternative substrates to double clock speeds
Engineers tripled speeds on an Nvidia chip using a diamond substrate
Samsung and TSMC 3nm yields could be as low as 50 percent
Samsung running into SRAM trouble, while industry insiders are suspicious about the overheating iPhone 15 Pro
Intel shows off glass substrates for next-generation advanced chip packages
Good things come in small packages
Huawei and the Land of Magical Thinking
Did Huawei and SMIC break the laws of physics?
Intel could soon spend over 9 billion on chip outsourcing from TSMC
Market speculation that could be taken with a grain of salt
Aiming for Atoms: The Art of Making Chips Smaller
In the realm of computer chips, bigger numbers are often better. More cores, higher GHz, greater FLOPs. But there's one metric where smaller is better. Enter the world of semiconductors and process nodes.
Intel's $5.4 billion acquisition of Tower Semiconductor has been called off
Not the first time China has dragged its feet
Samsung announces backside power delivery network breakthroughs - what does it mean for future chips?
The new approach could improve overall power delivery performance while reducing routing congestion
TSMC announces new $11 billion factory in Germany to manufacture automotive and IoT chips
The factory will be part of a new joint venture between TSMC and three European companies
Japanese researchers cut semiconductor wafers from diamonds with a new laser technique
Diamonds could replace silicon for some hi-tech applications
Arm launches education initiative to address skill shortage in the semiconductor industry
The Semiconductor Education Alliance aims to tackle the skills gap threatening technology progress
Intel's 3nm node hits yield/performance targets ahead of Sierra Forest & Granite Rapids launch
Intel 3 will bring impressive improvements over its predecessor, Intel 4
Semiconductors and cars: A kingdom if you can take it
Editor's take: Automotive semis are transitioning from the near-anarchy of dozens of independent vendors selling hundreds of discrete parts to platforms powering cars' major systems. Great news for the big analog companies, if they can make the leap to digital.
Samsung announces industry-first GDDR7 memory, first gen chips to reach 32 Gbps speeds
Faster VRAM for next-gen graphics cards, but same capacity as existing GDDR6 chips