by Robert Triggs, 1 month ago

If you weren’t overly impressed by the ARM Cortex-A15 powered Exynos 5 Octa benchmark that we posted the other day, I have some good news for you hardware enthusiasts. ARM and manufacturer TSMC have issued a joint press…

by Bogdan Bele, 2 months ago

Panasonic is considering selling its smartphone business, a report on Japanese news outlet Sankei Shimbun says. While that’s newsworthy in its own, the names of the potential buyers are even more interesting. That report mentions HTC…

by Bogdan Petrovan, 2 months ago

The Galaxy S4 will be introduced to the world in just over two weeks, and just like last year, we still don’t have a clear idea of what Samsung is cooking up. But, as the…

by Stefan Constantinescu, 4 months ago

United Semiconductor has allegedly sent 28 nanometer samples to Qualcomm in an attempt to become their second fab parter. If that sentence went over your head, let’s break it down. Qualcomm is a company that…

by Gary Sims, 4 months ago

Speculation has been growing over the last few months about how Apple will untangle itself from its dependency on Samsung, a company it once saw as a partner but now thinks of more as a rival. At…

by Gary Sims, 5 months ago

A few weeks ago Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO, told NBC that Apple is to begin manufacturing one of its Mac lines exclusively in US, he also added that the company had been working on “doing more…

by Stefan Constantinescu, 5 months ago

According to a new report published by IC Insights, more money is going to be spent on the parts that make up mobile phones than the parts that make up personal computers in 2013. Their…

by Stefan Constantinescu, 5 months ago

Every Android smartphone worth buying today uses either a chip made by Qualcomm or a chip made by Samsung. Qualcomm’s chips are manufactured by a company called TSMC; they use 28 nanometer technology. Samsung on…

by Chris Smith, 5 months ago

There’s probably no greater rivalry in the mobile space right now than the one between Apple and Samsung, although one could argue that the Apple vs Google battle is also quite important for the mobile…

by Stefan Constantinescu, 5 months ago

Chances are that the smartphone you have in your pocket right now is powered by a chip that was made by the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, TSMC for short. Qualcomm uses TSMC, NVIDIA uses TSMC,…

by Stefan Constantinescu, 7 months ago

Globalfoundries is a company that deals with the fabrication of chips. Companies like Qualcomm or Texas Instruments design chips, but then they have to send those designs to someone like Globalfoundries to make the physical…

by J. Angelo Racoma, 8 months ago

In the aftermath of Apple’s big patent win against Samsung, industry observers have wondered whether it would affect the iPhone maker’s relationship with the South Korean company in terms of its supply contracts for components….

by Mike Andrici, 9 months ago

As Apple and Samsung lawyers are preparing their closing statements for today in the tech world’s biggest trial ever, research firm IC Insights has recently published its forecasts regarding the top 12 IC foundries in…

by Lucian Armasu, 9 months ago

Intel went FinFET (or tri-gate transistors as they call them) at 22nm with Ivy Bridge, and now the #1 foundry, TSMC, and the #2 foundry, UMC, will also go to FinFET for the next gen…

by Lucian Armasu, 9 months ago

TSMC is the largest foundry in the world, and it’s usually the main company that Nvidia, Qualcomm and others turn to when they want their chips manufactured. As an IP vendor, ARM has to work…