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Editorial: Nanometer Nonsense
Both leading foundries allowed customers to claim they were using a 4nm process when, in fact, they were using 5nm technology. This situation renders node names meaningless.
Oppo Find X5 Pro improves Anti-Shake Technology with 5 axis image stabilization
Oppo Find X5 Pro improves Anti-Shake Technology with 5 axis image stabilization John Scott-Thomas The Oppo Find X5 Pro was released in March, 2022 and introduce 5 axis optical image stabilization. This allows a putative x3 improvement in anti-shake
SemiWEEK: HANMI – 10 BEST Korean Chip Equipment Supplier; Stocks surged
Semiconductor WEEK: An overview of results and conclusions from recent reports at TechInsights.
SEMICON West. SMIC’s 7nm Chips. EUV changing Fab Economics
SEMICON West. SMIC’s 7nm Chips. EUV changing Fab Economics G. Dan Hutcheson The Chip Insider® SEMICON West was packed as the world’s silicon-birds came back to their migratory path, after two years of various COVID forced lockdowns, in an attempt to
Temperatures are cooling off, but the path is still clear
Temperatures are cooling off, but the path is still clear Andrea Lati Order activity for semiconductor equipment continued to trend down, slipping to 89 degrees The rate of decline has moderated in the last two weeks following a steep drop in June
Teardown: Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5G
Teardown: Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5G Foldable phones, once thought to be a dream, have become a reality. While flip phones were introduced many years ago as one of the first iterations of expanding cell phone form factors, it wasn’t the screen that
TechInsights' Semiconductor Analytics Report
TechInsights' Semiconductor Analytics Report
Teardown: Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Fold laptop
Teardown: Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Fold laptop Foldable electronics are growing in number but remain a niche market overall. Consumers are interested in the technology but the practicality of using foldable electronics is something that just hasn’t caught
Disruptive Technology: 7nm SMIC MinerVa Bitcoin Miner
TechInsights has discovered what appears to be SMIC 7nm technology in the MinerVa Bitcoin Miner SoC. Learn why this matters and its market impact by downloading our Disruptive Technology Brief today.
Webinar - Recent GaN Innovation, Moving from Consumer to Data Center and Automotive
In this webinar, Dr. Stephen Russell will delve into the innovations found within recently released GaN devices for both low-voltage ( 600 V) devices aimed at data centers and high voltage (>650 V) devices looking to enter the light industrial and even automotive markets.
RISC-V Extension Eliminates Division
RISC-V International, the governing body of the open-standard instruction set, recently approved four new specifications that address multiplication, bootloaders, and debugging, reducing the gap with Arm.
Imagination Launches RISC-V Core
Imagination Technologies has unveiled its first Catapult family member. Based on the RISC-V architecture, the CPU core targets real-time applications, putting Cortex-R52 in its sights.
Gaudi2 Makes Impressive MLPerf Debut
In the latest round of MLPerf Training results, Graphcore’s Bow offers a modest improvement and Habana’s Gaudi2 triples performance over its predecessor, vaulting past Nvidia’s A100 on one benchmark.
Upcoming New 3D NAND TLC Devices: Samsung 176L & 238L, SK hynix 176L, KIOXIA/WD 162L
Micron, and now other leading 3D NAND players such as Samsung, SK hynix, KIOIXA, and Western Digital (WD) have finished the risky product stage and just moved onto the high-volume product stage with a higher yield for SSD application. Dr. Jeongdong Choe compares each.
TechInsights' Semiconductor Analytics Report
TechInsights' Semiconductor Analytics Report
Intel 10nm Processors Target Comms
New Intel Atom processors have 4 to 24 CPUs and target enterprise networking and SMB storage. They extend the Snow Ridge product line and largely replace the Denverton family.
AlphaICs Joins Crowded Edge-AI Market
AlphaICs is sampling a test version of its Gluon edge-inference accelerator chip. Given moderate performance, the company plans changes to improve the production version, with an architectural overhaul planned for the second generation.
Dimensity 9000 now available in Plus Size
MediaTek and Qualcomm announced midlife kickers for their premium-smartphone processors, delivering the Dimensity 9000+ and Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1, respectively, and showing that not all 4nm processes are the same.