Ternus Teases ‘Huge’ Apple Launch in First Memo as CEO
John Ternus spent his first day as Apple’s chief executive telling employees to brace for next week. In an all-hands memo on Sept. 1, the new CEO promised a “huge…
ASML’s High-NA EUV Machines Reach First High-Volume Chip
ASML’s most advanced lithography machines have entered production at scale. According to a report from Digitimes on September 1, the Dutch company’s high numerical aperture EUV systems, known as High…
TSMC Bets Silicon Photonics Will Carry AI Chips Past Electrical Limits
The chips are getting faster. The wires between them are not. That is the problem TSMC expects silicon photonics to solve, and the company says the technology will start accelerating…
SK Hynix Weighs Japan Fab, Hands HBM Base Dies to Intel Foundry
For decades, the message from Korea’s memory makers was consistent: fabs stay home. On Monday, SK Group chairman Choi Tae-won broke that pattern, publicly confirming that SK Hynix is considering…
Tim Cook’s Final Day Hands Apple to John Ternus
Tim Cook spent his last day as Apple’s chief executive the way he spent so many of the previous fifteen years: on the move, in meetings, doing the work. He…
Intel Completes Roughly $20 Billion Share Sale to Fund AI Chip Push
Intel said it had completed an equity offering of about $20 billion to $23 billion, one of the largest in the company’s history, to fund AI chip capacity and its…
Intel Details Xeon 7 “Diamond Rapids”: 256 Cores and 1.28GB of Cache
On Aug. 26, Intel published the full specifications of its next-generation Xeon 7 server processor, code-named Diamond Rapids, a chip with up to 256 performance cores, 16 compute tiles, and…
Intel Unveils Agentic AI Architecture at Hot Chips as x86 Fight Intensifies
The word repeated most often in Intel’s Hot Chips 2026 presentation was not “performance” or “core” but “agent.” Intel, the company that defined the personal computer era and then lost…
AMD Unveils MI400 at Hot Chips as x86 Share Hits Highest Level Since 1995
The presentation at Hot Chips 2026, the annual conference where chip designers show their work, began with architecture diagrams and ended with a market statistic that summed up the industry’s…
Intel Moves Next PC Chip to TSMC’s 2-Nanometer Process
The next generation of Intel’s PC processors will be built by the same company that makes chips for Apple, Nvidia and Qualcomm, a concession that reshapes the balance of the…
