Semiconductors are quickly taking their place as perhaps the world’s most coveted products. They might not be redrawing maps or starting wars, like the spice trade or petroleum, but in the past few ...
The boom in data center construction is taking up much of the supply of high-tech components, especially processor and memory chips. This demand is squeezing consumer device makers, which are having ...
The world is experiencing a computer chip shortage due to a perfect storm of problems including a global pandemic, a trade war, fires, drought and snowstorms. It has coincided with a period of soaring ...
On April 1, 2025, the Taiwanese manufacturer TSMC introduced the world’s most advanced microchip: the 2 nanometre (2nm) chip. Mass production is expected for the second half of the year, and TSMC ...
IBM has built a working computer processor with 50 billion transistors in an area the size of a fingernail, making it the smallest and densest computer chip architecture yet produced. If it is adopted ...
IBM on Thursday unveiled the first chip created using its latest semiconductor technologies, one that holds nearly 100 billion transistors in a fleck of hardware no bigger than your fingernail.