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Taiwanese chip maker TSMC will make a decision early next year about building a German chip factory, Nikkei Asia sources said. First, a team of high-ranking employees would travel to the country. Construction could begin in 2024.The team…

What makes the 5800X3D special In the summer of 2021, AMD announced the arrival of a 3D V-Cache. That is an extra L3 cache that is not in the processor chip itself as usual, but in an extra chip literally on top of the regular. AMD uses…

Chip designer MediaTek has announced its Dimensity 9200 soc. It is the first soc for smartphones without support for 32-bit apps. The soc can only run 64-bit software, the manufacturer says.This eliminates support for older apps and…

Samsung has presented its processor roadmap for the coming years. In five years, the manufacturer wants to start using a process with transistors of 1.4 nanometers. Until then, there will be 3nm and 2nm processes.Samsung is currently…

The new PS5 revision that surfaced last month also seems to have a new AMD Oberon Plus soc. It is produced on TSMC's N6 process, where the current PS5 soc is made on N7. The chip offers the same performance, but is smaller and more…

Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4090 graphics cards have surfaced from the Eurasian Economic Commission. The manufacturer has registered several models with this organization. Presumably, Nvidia will officially announce its RTX 4090 next week.In…

Apple would have started designing the M3 soc, the successor to its own M2. It would be produced later in 2023 on TSMC's 3nm process and may already be released that year or early 2024.Apple would have started the basic design of the M3…

Initial pricing information for AMD's Ryzen 7000 CPUs has emerged. A Canadian retailer has published product pages of four different models. The processors are expected to hit the market in mid-September.The flagship model, the Ryzen 9…

The joint venture of memory manufacturers Kioxia and Western Digital will receive up to 669 million euros in subsidy for the construction of its Fab7 chip factory in Japan. The two companies announced this on Wednesday. The companies…

Chip designer MediaTek will have chips produced by Intel's new foundry division. The two companies announced this on Monday. In this way, MediaTek says it wants to expand its supply chain.MediaTek is planning to manufacture chips for…