#foundry

Macro photograph of a Samsung-branded DRAM chip soldered to a green circuit board, its part number K4T51163QI-HCE6 clearly legible

Samsung won more than $200 billion of Broadcom chip work through 2030

Samsung signed an MOU with Broadcom worth more than $200 billion through 2030 across memory, 2nm foundry and advanced packaging. Nvidia locked up SK Hynix the same day.

A silicon wafer patterned with IBM's sub-1-nanometer node test chips.

Hardware·last month

IBM's 'sub-1nm' chip is a lab milestone, not a product you'll buy soon

IBM showed a 0.7nm 'nanostack' transistor with ~100 billion transistors on a fingernail. It's real research, but the name is marketing and shipping silicon is years out.

Apple Park headquarters in Cupertino, the campus where Apple Silicon decisions are made

Apple·3 months ago

Intel jumped 13% on a Bloomberg report that Apple is talking to its old chip supplier again

Bloomberg says Apple is in early-stage talks with Intel and Samsung Foundry to build base M-series chips in the US starting 2027. Intel closed at a record $543B market cap.

Intel corporate newsroom image showing Intel branding

Hardware·3 months ago

Intel's foundry finally has a whale: Musk says Tesla's Terafab will run on 14A

Elon Musk said Tesla plans to manufacture at Terafab in Austin on Intel's 14A process. It's the first major external customer Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan needs to keep the foundry alive.