When Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) is prepping to roll out an all-new process technology, it usually builds a new fab to meet demand of its alpha customers and then either adds capacity by upgrading existing fabs or building another facility. With N2 (2nm-class), the company seems to be taking a slightly different approach as […]
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. released its Q4’2023 and full year 2023 financial results this week. And along with a look at the financial state of the firm as it enters 2024, the company’s earnings info also offers a fresh look at the utilization of their various fab nodes. Of particular interest, with TSMC ramping up […]
Following the latest legal defeat in Apple’s ongoing patent infringement fight over blood oxygen sensors, the company is set to remove its blood oxygen measurement feature from its Watch Series 9 and Watch Ultra 2 sold in the U.S. The decision comes after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit declined to extend […]
In response to the launch of NVIDIA’s new GeForce RTX 40 Super video cards, AMD has announced that they are instituting new promotional pricing on a handful of their high-end video cards in order to keep pace with NVIDIA’s new pricing. Kicking off what AMD is terming a special “promotional pricing” program for […]
Seagate’s financial reports have been indicating imminent mass production of HAMR HDDs for a few years now, and it looks like the wait for these drives to appear in retail is finally at an end. The Seagate Exos product family is getting a 30TB capacity point, thanks to the use of heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) […]