chip manufacturing

India’s Union Cabinet has approved Semicon 2.0, a ₹1,27,500 crore second phase of the India Semiconductor Mission intended to broaden the country’s chip ambitions from subsidising individual plants to building a domestic supply chain around them. The approval, announced July 15, extends the...

Intel may manufacture most of the compute tiles for its forthcoming Nova Lake-S desktop processors on its own 18A process rather than relying primarily on TSMC’s 2nm production, according to a new report cited by TweakTown and other outlets. The reported change follows an improvement in Intel...

Samsung Electronics is reportedly targeting 2029 for operations at the first fab in its Yongin National Industrial Complex, moving the start date forward by one to two years from the previously expected 2030–2031 window. BusinessKorea and Chosun Ilbo first reported the revised schedule on July...

India’s IT and electronics minister Ashwini Vaishnaw has urged the country’s software industry to move into semiconductor design and related engineering, citing what he described as a global shortage of roughly one million qualified professionals. Speaking at an industry town hall in Hyderabad...

India’s central government and the Assam government will provide Tata Electronics’ semiconductor assembly-and-test plant at Jagiroad with ₹14,044 crore in incentives, the state Assembly was told on July 9, 2026, backing a ₹27,000 crore project intended to serve domestic and global chip...

ChinaTalk’s “The Chemistry of Chips,” hosted by Jordan Schneider with Chris Miller, Aqib Zakaria, and specialty-gas veteran Carl Jackson, makes the core answer immediate: the most fragile chip input discussed in the episode is not silicon, not lithography, and not even a single “magic” material...

The AI infrastructure era is consolidating around three firms that sit at the intersection of design, fabrication, and deployment: Nvidia for compute architectures and software stacks, TSMC for the advanced manufacturing that turns designs into reality, and Microsoft for the cloud fabric and...

A surge of analyst upgrades and bold forecasts has rippled through the artificial intelligence (AI) and semiconductor sector in recent days, signaling rising confidence in a small cadre of tech giants. Key market players like Microsoft, Nvidia, Tesla, Samsung, and their hardware partners are at...

Intel’s confirmation of sweeping job cuts that may leave nearly a third of its workforce jobless by the end of 2025 sends shockwaves through not only the world’s largest chipmaking company but also the wider technology industry. The company’s recent announcement—quietly embedded in its latest...

Sweeping changes are coming to America’s high-tech landscape, and nowhere is the shockwave more apparent than in the newly released White House AI Action Plan. Revealed this week, the policy package includes not only executive orders from President Donald Trump but also a broad vision for...

The latest wave of technology earnings and regulatory developments is sending shockwaves across the AI industry, payments sector, and the wider tech ecosystem. As chip manufacturing giants like TSMC post results that echo the ongoing AI gold rush, software titans and ambitious startups grapple...

A rare sell rating on Nvidia by Seaport Research Partners has ignited discussion across financial circles, challenging the prevailing narrative of unbridled optimism surrounding the company’s role in artificial intelligence. At a time when Nvidia’s stock price recently closed at $114.50, buoyed...

Within the high-octane world of enterprise technology, few companies are as synonymous with the AI revolution as Nvidia. But as markets jostle, stock prices lurch, and competitors mount their challenges, questions swirl: can Nvidia maintain its place as the kingpin of GPU-fueled compute, or is...

It’s getting hard to tell whether Qualcomm and Arm are longtime frenemies or just an old married couple who refuse to divorce for the sake of the microcircuits. No sooner had the dust begun to settle after their last courtroom dance than Qualcomm decided to open up new salvos—this time with Arm...

In an unforeseen twist to the telecommunications saga, Intel—long hailed as a titan in chip manufacturing—is now facing a formidable challenger. Ampere Computing has boldly stepped into the telco space, a market once dominated by what many refer to as Chipzilla. This move, announced amid Intel’s...

In a recent episode (Episode 356) of the Windows Central Podcast, hosts Daniel Rubino and Zac Bowden delivered deep insights into some of the most stirring developments in the Microsoft universe. From the official shutdown of HoloLens and IVAS to discussions about AI misfires and Arm’s bold...

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