Arne Verheyde

Pure-play foundry sales grew 6% in China last year, according to market research, making it the only region to register a sales increase.

Laptop vendors were reportedly still impacted by Intel's supply issues in the Q4 2019, and laptop shipments are expected to drop up to 15% in Q1 2020.

According to Apple Daily, AMD will become TSMC's largest 7nm customer in the second half of 2020, driven by a doubling in orders and Apple moving to 5nm.

Bitcoin mining ASIC companies Bitmain and Canaan will produce 5nm chips in 2020. Bitmain received its first test chip from TSMC in December, while Canaan will follow in the first quarter of 2020.

The Comet Lake rumors are flying

IBM Research recently announced it has discovered a new battery that does not use heavy metals such as cobalt.

A leak gives some interesting details about Intel's first discrete GPU.

Linux 5.6 will receive support for USB4, added by Intel's open-source department.

An Intel Tiger Lake Engineering Sample has reportedly hit a 4 GHz all-core turbo speed, indicating that the CPU architecture could be noticeably quicker than Ice Lake.

Intel has hired AMD executive Masooma Bhaiwala to become vice president of discrete GPU SoCs. She previously worked on semi-custom SoCs at AMD.

Intel claims it is the world's smallest and most power efficient high-resolution lidar camera.

An Intel process technology that has surfaced at IEDM 2019 shows the company intends to launch its nodes at a two-year cadence for the next decade, with 1.4nm in 2029.

Research institution imec has fabricated highly scaled transistors based on the MoS2 2D material as channel. The device has the potential to replace silicon transistors.

Intel demonstrated its STT-MRAM acting as an L4 cache.

Intel details its Horse Ridge control chip for quantum computers that operates at cryogenic temperatures

Intel is plowing forward on a key component of its Xe Architecture

The 64-core Graviton2 processors comes with 30 billion transistors created on the 7nm process.

Intel, joined by Raja Koduri, on Monday opened a new design and engineering center in India. It will focus on data-centric computing and communication technology.

Intel is reportedly in 'advanced talks' to acquire Israeli AI start-up Habana Labs for between $1 and $2 billion, adding to its tally of AI acquisitions that includes Movidius and Nervana.

Intel has announced that the first corporate entities, Global 500 members, including GE, have joined its neuromorphic research community. They will build proof-of-concepts.

Intel is moving on multiple fronts as it plows forward to 7nm.

Intel has announced its next-gen Keem Bay VPU with 10x the deep learning inference performance. The company also provided some more details of its Nervana Neural Network Processors.

Samsung faced a manufacturing issue in a 200mm DRAM fab a few weeks ago caused by contaminated equipment with millions of dollars of damage, but says the problems are solved.

Intel today announced a monster FPGA with 43.3 billion transistors. The Stratix 10 GX 10M with 10 million logic elements is composed of two dies and four transceiver tiles all connected via EMIB.