Can a Start-Up Make Computer Chips Cheaper Than the Industry’s Giants?

Mr. Proud, who became a U.S. citizen in 2019, put together a policy paper for the first Trump administration, calling for a ...

Silicon Valley chip start-up raises $100mn to take on TSMC and ASML

Silicon Valley investors, including Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, have invested more than $100mn in a secretive US start-up ...
SlashGear

The Explosive Science Behind How Computer Chips Are Made

The days of computer chips being mere pieces of tech are long gone. Now, they are very much weapons. Weapons of innovation, wealth, control, and power. That's why all the superpower nations are ...
TweakTown

TSMC increases silicon costs for Apple, includes A16, A17, A18, A19, M3, M4, and new M5 chips

TSMC is increasing the price of its silicon prices in 2026, informing Apple and other clients of 8-10% price increases for ...
Circuit Digest

Custom Silicon at 7 Dollars | wafer.space Makes Low-Volume Chip Fabrication Viable

Scale and time are areas where this varies from PCB manufacturing. Where you might pay 40 dollars for five PCBs delivered in ...
EurekAlert!

New 3D chips could make electronics faster and more energy-efficient

Cambridge, MA – The advanced semiconductor material gallium nitride will likely be key for the next generation of high-speed communication systems and the power electronics needed for state-of-the-art ...
EDN

Will wood chips replace silicon chips?

I have never liked to hear the colloquial word “chips” as a shorthand term for integrated circuits, except when it is used between engineers who actually know what an IC really is. When it is used by ...