When it comes to companies that make customer chips, the company you probably think of first is TSMC. After all, the Taiwan-based firm is the world’s largest contract foundry, producing chips for companies like Apple, Huawei (at least for the time being), Qualcomm, MediaTek, and others. The second largest independent …
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An international team of researchers has demonstrated an innovative technique to increase the intensity of lasers. In an article that made the cover of the magazine. Applied Physics Lyrics, an international team of researchers has demonstrated an innovative technique to increase the intensity of lasers. This approach, based on the …
Read More »Should Samsung and LG be concerned?
Click here to read the full article. Suddenly the exclusive The OLED market is getting quite crowded. On the heels of Vizio revealed its OLED set this week, Xiaomi has now joined the party, with the Chinese electronics giant set to unveil a new 65-inch ultra-high-end OLED TV that is …
Read More »Low internet access is driving inequality (opinion)
High-speed Internet is key to working from home, to educating children when they cannot attend school in person, to telemedicine, to benefiting from social support programs and to allowing access to financial services for all, especially for those who live in remote areas. As this map shows, the digital divide, …
Read More »TSMC rejects Samsung’s challenge to master chip casting
TAIPEI / SEOUL – Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is the heavyweight champion of contract chip manufacturing. But the company, which controls half of the business worldwide, now faces a serious challenge from Samsung Electronics, its archrival in South Korea. Samsung is using its massive war chest to catch up on …
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