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Samsung chip engineers defect to SK Hynix over $476,000 bonuses
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Samsung chip engineers defect to SK Hynix over $476,000 bonuses

SK Hynix's HBM windfall is triggering an exodus from Samsung's foundry, where bonuses landed at roughly $135,000 per employee.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Meta starts production of MTIA AI chips in September to cut Nvidia dependence

The social giant is spending up to $145B this year on AI compute and wants its own silicon to blunt GPU costs.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Etched hits $5B valuation with $1B booked for its AI inference chip
Business

Etched hits $5B valuation with $1B booked for its AI inference chip

The Harvard-dropout founders raised $500M in December and have TSMC-manufactured silicon in customer hands.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
IBM unveils nanostack architecture, claims first sub-1nm chip tech
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IBM unveils nanostack architecture, claims first sub-1nm chip tech

The 0.7nm node packs nearly 100 billion transistors on a fingernail-sized chip, with 50% more performance than 2nm silicon.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
TSMC says it can't keep up with AI chip demand even with $165B US buildout
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TSMC says it can't keep up with AI chip demand even with $165B US buildout

CEO C.C. Wei warns of bottlenecks as TSMC pours $165B into Arizona and plans three more US plants to chase a $1T market by 2027.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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Taiwan's manufacturers fold Nvidia AI into their own fabs as Vera Rubin ramps

TSMC, Foxconn, Wistron, Pegatron and Inventec apply Nvidia software to the lines building 1 million MGX rack components.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Huawei's HiSilicon claims chip breakthrough to close China's 5-year AI lag
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Huawei's HiSilicon claims chip breakthrough to close China's 5-year AI lag

Tingbo He says Tau's Scaling Law will deliver 1.4-nanometer equivalent performance by 2031, three years behind TSMC.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Nvidia commits $150B annually to Taiwan as Trump's AI reshoring push stalls

Huang doubles down on Taiwan as the AI epicenter while Trump's chip tariffs and export controls fail to shift production stateside.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
AMD commits $10B to Taiwan's AI chip ecosystem as shares double
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AMD commits $10B to Taiwan's AI chip ecosystem as shares double

The investment targets advanced packaging and manufacturing for Helios, AMD's AI server system shipping in H2 2026.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
TSMC projects global chip market to reach $1.5 trillion by 2030 on AI demand
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TSMC projects global chip market to reach $1.5 trillion by 2030 on AI demand

The world's largest contract chipmaker says AI workloads are the primary engine pushing semiconductor revenue past the trillion-dollar mark this decade.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
Intel stock is up 490% in a year as Lip-Bu Tan courts Apple, Tesla, and Musk
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Intel stock is up 490% in a year as Lip-Bu Tan courts Apple, Tesla, and Musk

Wall Street is pricing a turnaround that hasn't shown up in chip yields yet, with TSMC still ahead and execution thin on specifics.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
TSMC signs 30-year deal for all of Hai Long offshore wind output as AI chip demand strains Taiwan grid
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TSMC signs 30-year deal for all of Hai Long offshore wind output as AI chip demand strains Taiwan grid

The chipmaker is locking in 1 gigawatt of offshore wind as its share of Taiwan's electricity heads toward 25% by 2030.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Samsung crosses $1T valuation as AI memory demand drives 8x profit surge
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Samsung crosses $1T valuation as AI memory demand drives 8x profit surge

Shares jumped more than 10% on Wednesday after talks with Apple over US chip manufacturing surfaced, making Samsung Asia's second trillion-dollar company.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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TSMC triples CoWoS packaging for Nvidia Blackwell through 2027

The Taiwanese foundry commits to a 230,000-wafer-per-year CoWoS line, locking in Nvidia's next three generations.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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