MediaTek is betting that its future will be written in silicon tuned for artificial intelligence, not just smartphones. The ...

In 2020, Kenton Smith, an engineer, was peering through a microscope at electronic devices, admiring the intricate designs. As he studied something called a voltage comparator, he saw a face staring ...

For the last three years, the handheld PC market has effectively been a fortress guarded by AMD. From the Steam Deck to the ...

The chips that datacenters use to run the latest AI breakthroughs generate much more heat than previous generations of silicon. Anybody whose phone or laptop has overheated knows that electronics ...

With AI being the biggest change in IT infrastructure since the Dot Com boom, it was no surprise that at the annual Cisco Live event last month in San Diego, the focus was on AI – and particularly ...

Every so often, a semiconductor startup emerges claiming to have cracked a problem the industry’s biggest players have wrestled with for decades. Most fade quietly, but occasionally, one arrives that ...

Today marks the fifth anniversary of the Apple silicon chip that replaced Intel chips in Apple's Mac lineup. The first Apple silicon chip, the M1, was unveiled on November 10, 2020. The M1 debuted in ...

The advent of big data era raising significant challenges in information processing, especially in the aspect of capacity and power consumption. Situations become even worse when we consider the fact ...

TL;DR: Apple is expanding its American silicon supply chain with a $100 billion investment in US manufacturing, partnering with key firms like TSMC Arizona, GlobalWafers America, and Applied Materials ...

Microsoft reported today it has successfully tested a new cooling system that removed heat up to three times better than cold plates. The system is called microfluidics, an approach that brings liquid ...

Battery innovation doesn’t always get the spotlight, but maybe it should. After all, it’s one of the few things that truly defines the day-to-day user experience. Over the years, smartphone processors ...

I have never liked to hear the colloquial word “chips” as a shorthand term for integrated circuits, except when it is used between engineers who actually know what an IC really is. When it is used by ...