Intel will finally finish Fab 42 in Arizona, bring new 7nm capacity online
…The company has several plants that will be at or near 20 years old by 2020, and it typically shuts older plants down as new ones ramp up. Then again, the industry…
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Musk: Starlink Beta Will End In October
…SpaceX is ramping up production of new dishes (Opens in a new window) to accommodate additional subscribers, and this hardware should support higher speeds. Whether or not they'll get us to…
PC Display Ratios Other Than 16:9 Creep Toward the Mainstream
…As 16:9 panel production ramped up, companies minimized costs and maximized yield by standardizing monitors and televisions on the same aspect ratio. This is back in the 2006 - 2009 period, when…
Samsung May Shutter Chinese Phone Factory as Its Market Share Collapses
…Samsung has been ramping up production in other areas, taking advantage of falling labor costs as Chinese labor markets have become relatively more expensive. The company produces 36 million phones at the…
Intel, AMD Reportedly Fighting for Capacity at TSMC
…TSMC announced their 6nm process last year, it typically takes about 12 months to ramp up for volume manufacturing, and that means the node could be ready for production soon. In a…
This is what the death of Moore's law looks like: EUV rollout slowed, 450mm wafers halted, and an uncertain path beyond 14nm
…EUV is the follow-up to 193nm lithography that's used for etching wafers, but it's a technology that's spent over a decade mired in technological problems and major ramp…
Manufacturers Struggle to Improve QLC NAND as Yields Sit Below 50 Percent
…This could be related to efforts to scale up the number of manufacturing layers in 3D NAND products. 3D-NAND (general diagram) As the number of layers in 3D NAND increases, so…
Apple CEO Tim Cook blasts government, private companies for strip-mining user privacy
…Apple actively encourages you to sign up for cloud accounts, Apple ID, and its own GameCenter. Your identity isn't something you're supposed to guard -- its a gateway to using products…
The state of DDR4
…X-bit labs estimates that, if DDR4 does show up on desktops, it will probably be in 2014 and production ramp-up will be rapid (Opens in a new window) , with DDR4…
Intel Is at a Crossroads
…The following story wasn't sparked by any single recent event or product launch. Instead, it's a synthesis of questions I've seen authors, pundits, and readers discussing in various articles…
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