Tag: TSMC
Podcast #804 – Pre-CES Show – GeForce RTX 5080 and Radeon RX 9070 XT Rumors, AirJet Cooling, 12vHWPR
Our first podcast of 2025 is the reason that playback speed control exists. Just set to at least 1.5x and you should be able to stay awake through most of it. But…
Read MorePodcast #767 – Intel Foundry Loses Billions, XZ Backdoor, Thermaltake CTE C700 TG Case, SSD Pricing, RX 550 or April Fool’s?
We aren't too proud of this technological terror we've constructed, because the ability to record a podcast is insignificant compared to the power of the Schwartz. Intel Foundry news, SSD pricing,…
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Eat Expensive TSMC Chips, For Real This Time?
TSMC released a new chip during their Q4 2023 financial meeting, but not the type you are thinking of. They partnered with a snack company based in Taiwan called Guaiguai to create…
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TSMC Is On A Buying Spree
Intel recently divested shares of their IMS Nanofabrication company, which designs and produces the photomasks required to fabricate chips. The original sale of 20% of the company was to Bain Capital and…
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TSMC Creates The 3DFabric Alliance To Accelerate Chiplet Design
AMD has made many bets over the years; most of which have eventually panned out, albeit too late to pay off to the extent they'd originally hoped. From hitting the gigahertz mark…
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TSMC’s Forecasted Share Price Drop Is Bad News
TSMC has had a brilliant year so far, as just about every single chip slinger is using their fabs to produce at least some of their silicon, up to and including Intel. …
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TSMC’s 2nm Node Now Due Towards The End Of 2025
Nanometre no more, as we quickly approach the production of features described as 2nm. The description of node size has become less accurate as fabs are able to produce smaller features, but…
Read MorePodcast #660 – RX 6500 XT, MS with Activision Blizzard, EXYNOS 2200, TSMC Expands, Thinkpad P15 Mobile Review + MORE!
2022 is still here, so are we. Welcome to the second show this year, sorry it was late being posted here - I'm blaming the pandemic. The RX 6500 XT is a 4GB…
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AMD Announces Radeon RX 6700 XT Graphics Card
AMD has announced their latest graphics card, with the new Radeon RX 6700 XT joining the RX 6800 Series as a lower cost RDNA 2 option (though, as we are all painfully…
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TSMC’s 3nm Is On Track
TSMC have stated that their 3nm lines should be online later this year and describe it as a much larger change than their switch to 5nm. The process will offer up to…
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TSMC Stops Shipping Chips To Huawei
A new chapter in the ongoing saga of Huawei was released today, this time on the supply side as opposed to on the demand end of the equation. So far four of…
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Apple Chips; New 5nm A14 Chips From TSMC Coming
It seems like just last week when Google announced they would be moving to a custom 5nm ARM based chip from Samsung for some, if not all of their upcoming...
Read MorePC Perspective Podcast #575 – Comet Lake-F Leaks, Drop ALT Keyboard
Join us this week as we discuss the latest information on Intel's upcoming Comet Lake-F processors, check out a new mid-range CPU cooler from be quiet!, review a new mechanical keyboard from…
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TSMC Is Looking At A Big Year
In order to be able to handle the demand they expect for 2020 TSMC is planning to extensively expanded some of their factories. Samsung may have scored Qualcomm's 5nm production but
Read MorePC Perspective Podcast #558 – The Best Radeon RX 5700 XT, EPYC Video Encoding
This week we review SAPPHIRE's new Nitro+ RX 5700 XT, take a look at two new cases from Corsair and be quiet!, discuss the latest Ryzen BIOS updates, and more! Our sponsor this…
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Many Dies But Still Not Dead: TSMC’s Huge Interposer
TSMC published a blog post last Wednesday that is called, “Moore’s Law is not Dead”. First, they reiterate that Moore’s Law is about density, not performance. It used to be...
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NVIDIA Working with Both Samsung and TSMC for Ampere
In early June, DigiTimes reported that NVIDIA would be producing their next-generation graphics card at Samsung’s foundries. This story was picked up by various sites and then...
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Samsung Inside! Intel’s Fab-ulous Outsourcing Initiative
Intel's 14nm Rocket Lake CPUs are not due out until late 2020 or early 2021, which sounds a lot further away than it actually is, which is why they are making news…
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