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The world's largest contract chipmaker, whose customers include Apple and Nvidia, has benefited from a surge towards AI that has pushed TSMC's stock - and the broader Taiwan market - to record highs.

Chipmaker Nvidia Corporation has dethroned Microsoft as the world's most valuable company following a rally in its shares driven by the growing AI wave.

Samsung Galaxy S25 may not be powered by an Exynos 2500 chipset, according to Ming-Chi Kuo, an analyst at market research firm TF International Securities. The South Korean smartphone maker's purported decision to skip the use of its own Exynos chips on the Galaxy S25 series of smartphones could benefit a US chipmaker and a Taiwan-based semiconduct...

Apple has become the first brand to cross $1 trillion in brand value, a 15% jump from last year, while chipmaker Nvidia's value has nearly tripled, a global ranking by Kantar's BrandZ showed on Wednesday.

Nvidia has become the first computer-chip company ever to hit $3 trillion in market capitalization. The chipmaker's market value jumped to more than $3 trillion and overtook Apple in the process on Wednesday. The company has been arguably the biggest beneficiary of a massive flood of AI spending, helping vault the company into a race to claim the ...

Intel has shared details about the Lunar Lake CPUs at the Computex event, after announcing them recently. Alongside, the Xeon 6 processors were launched. Like Nvidia, Asus, and other participants at the event, the chipmaker also introduced its AI-led portfolio including new hardware, data centre innovation, and AI accelerators to power servers with...

Arm Holdings on Wednesday unveiled new chip blueprints and software tools to help smartphones handle artificial intelligence tasks, along with changes to how it delivers those blueprints that could help speed their adoption.

Intel Lunar Lake CPUs are coming as the successors to the company's Meteor Lake chips in Q3 2024, and the next-generation chips are expected to deliver a big improvement in AI performance. The chipmaker has announced that the upcoming Intel Lunar Lake chips will offer support for a 40+ TOPS NPU and over 60 GPU TOPS for a cumulative 100+ platform TO...

Taiwan's quake-hit eastern county of Hualien was rattled by more than 200 aftershocks late on Monday and early on Tuesday, but only minor damage was reported and no casualties and major chipmaker TSMC said it saw no impact on operations.

Apple will launch its first smartphone with a 2nm chip in 2025, according to a report. The iPhone maker is expected to launch the iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max with a 2nm chipset from TSMC. Meanwhile, the Taiwanese chipmaker is also working on a more advanced 2nm technology that could be ready by 2026, while developing its advanced 1.4nm proc...

Qualcomm Snapdragon 7+ Gen 3 was unveiled on Thursday as the latest addition to the chipmaker's Snapdragon 7-series portfolio. This mobile processor supports on-device generative AI models like Llama 2 and Gemini Nano. It is also the first Snapdragon 7-series chip to support Wi-Fi 7 connectivity, according to Qualcomm.

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 has been launched by the chipmaker as the latest mobile processor. The new chip offers support for over 30 on-device generative AI models including Gemini Nano and Llama 2 according to Qualcomm. It features support for capturing images at 200-megapixel resoluton and supports up to 24GB of LPDDR5x RAM and UFS 4.0 storage...

Intel launched its latest addition to the 14th Gen Core desktop processor family on Thursday. The 14th Gen Intel Core i9-14900KS is being touted by the company as the world’s fastest desktop processor. The CPU is said to deliver a clock speed up to 6.2GHz. It includes 24 cores and 32 threads, and the chipmaker claims that the new desktop chip off...

Nvidia has been sued by three authors who claim that the chipmaker used their copyrighted books without permission to train its NeMo AI platform. The US firm has touted NeMo as a fast and affordable way to adopt generative AI, and is not the first firm to be sued for the use of copyrighted work to train AI models.

Qualcomm has confirmed to host an event to announce new flagship Snapdragon chipsets on March 18. The chipmaker is expected to unveil the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 and the Snapdragon 7+ Gen 3 chips during the event, as the company’s latest SoCs. Both the chipsets are reportedly built on the same architecture as the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, which was introdu...

The world's largest contract chipmaker, whose customers include Apple and Nvidia, has benefited from a surge towards AI that has pushed TSMC's stock - and the broader Taiwan market - to record highs.

Chipmaker Nvidia Corporation has dethroned Microsoft as the world's most valuable company following a rally in its shares driven by the growing AI wave.

Samsung Galaxy S25 may not be powered by an Exynos 2500 chipset, according to Ming-Chi Kuo, an analyst at market research firm TF International Securities. The South Korean smartphone maker's purported decision to skip the use of its own Exynos chips on the Galaxy S25 series of smartphones could benefit a US chipmaker and a Taiwan-based semiconduct...

Apple has become the first brand to cross $1 trillion in brand value, a 15% jump from last year, while chipmaker Nvidia's value has nearly tripled, a global ranking by Kantar's BrandZ showed on Wednesday.

Nvidia has become the first computer-chip company ever to hit $3 trillion in market capitalization. The chipmaker's market value jumped to more than $3 trillion and overtook Apple in the process on Wednesday. The company has been arguably the biggest beneficiary of a massive flood of AI spending, helping vault the company into a race to claim the ...

Intel has shared details about the Lunar Lake CPUs at the Computex event, after announcing them recently. Alongside, the Xeon 6 processors were launched. Like Nvidia, Asus, and other participants at the event, the chipmaker also introduced its AI-led portfolio including new hardware, data centre innovation, and AI accelerators to power servers with...

Arm Holdings on Wednesday unveiled new chip blueprints and software tools to help smartphones handle artificial intelligence tasks, along with changes to how it delivers those blueprints that could help speed their adoption.

Intel Lunar Lake CPUs are coming as the successors to the company's Meteor Lake chips in Q3 2024, and the next-generation chips are expected to deliver a big improvement in AI performance. The chipmaker has announced that the upcoming Intel Lunar Lake chips will offer support for a 40+ TOPS NPU and over 60 GPU TOPS for a cumulative 100+ platform TO...

Taiwan's quake-hit eastern county of Hualien was rattled by more than 200 aftershocks late on Monday and early on Tuesday, but only minor damage was reported and no casualties and major chipmaker TSMC said it saw no impact on operations.

Apple will launch its first smartphone with a 2nm chip in 2025, according to a report. The iPhone maker is expected to launch the iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max with a 2nm chipset from TSMC. Meanwhile, the Taiwanese chipmaker is also working on a more advanced 2nm technology that could be ready by 2026, while developing its advanced 1.4nm proc...

Qualcomm Snapdragon 7+ Gen 3 was unveiled on Thursday as the latest addition to the chipmaker's Snapdragon 7-series portfolio. This mobile processor supports on-device generative AI models like Llama 2 and Gemini Nano. It is also the first Snapdragon 7-series chip to support Wi-Fi 7 connectivity, according to Qualcomm.

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 has been launched by the chipmaker as the latest mobile processor. The new chip offers support for over 30 on-device generative AI models including Gemini Nano and Llama 2 according to Qualcomm. It features support for capturing images at 200-megapixel resoluton and supports up to 24GB of LPDDR5x RAM and UFS 4.0 storage...

Intel launched its latest addition to the 14th Gen Core desktop processor family on Thursday. The 14th Gen Intel Core i9-14900KS is being touted by the company as the world’s fastest desktop processor. The CPU is said to deliver a clock speed up to 6.2GHz. It includes 24 cores and 32 threads, and the chipmaker claims that the new desktop chip off...

Nvidia has been sued by three authors who claim that the chipmaker used their copyrighted books without permission to train its NeMo AI platform. The US firm has touted NeMo as a fast and affordable way to adopt generative AI, and is not the first firm to be sued for the use of copyrighted work to train AI models.

Qualcomm has confirmed to host an event to announce new flagship Snapdragon chipsets on March 18. The chipmaker is expected to unveil the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 and the Snapdragon 7+ Gen 3 chips during the event, as the company’s latest SoCs. Both the chipsets are reportedly built on the same architecture as the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, which was introdu...