Samsung, one of the leading semiconductor players, is actively working on improving its GAA (Gate All Around) transistor architecture for the new 2nm process. According to recent reports, the Korean company plans to start mass production of 2nm semiconductor chips based on this technology as early as next year.
Despite trade restrictions from the US, Huawei continues to develop its Kirin chips for smartphones. Recent rumours on Chinese website Weibo suggest that Huawei is working on a new Kirin processor for PCs, which is under development and could match the performance of Apple's M3 in multi-threading and Apple's M2 in GPU.
On Wednesday at the North American Technology Symposium in Santa Clara, California, TSMC, the world's leading contract manufacturer, announced it will begin producing chips using the 1.6nm process by 2026.
Qualcomm recently showed impressive test results for its new Snapdragon X Elite chip. However, there are doubts about the reliability of this data.
Huawei recently unveiled a series of its new flagship smartphones, the Pura 70. These devices, like the previous Mate 60 series, are equipped with the company's proprietary Kirin chipset. However, this time the company has introduced a new Kirin 9010 processor, which promises improved performance over the Kirin 9000. But how much better is the new chip from Huawei!
Qualcomm's new Snapdragon X Plus processor, which is a more affordable version of the flagship Snapdragon X Elite chip, has been revealed in the Geekbench ML listing. This new chip is expected to ship for mid-range devices.
In 2022, TSMC announced that its 2nm fabrication process, known as N2, was ready for mass production in 2025. Immediately after that, reports emerged that the chipset in Apple's iPhone 17 Pro would be the first to use TSMC's 2nm fabrication process.
Qualcomm is gearing up for the unveiling of its Snapdragon X laptop processors and in its X social network account, it has revealed the date of its product launch with some hints.
Samsung has a new Exynos 2500 chipset in development, which is expected to be used in the Galaxy S25 series of smartphones. According to @PandaFlashPro, the Exynos 2500 will be more efficient than the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4, thanks to Samsung Foundry's second-generation 3-nanometre process technology.
Apple is reportedly planning to use TSMC's latest N2 manufacturing technology to create its A19 Pro mobile chips based on the 2nm process. This will give Apple a big advantage over its competitors as TSMC reports that the N2 process offers up to 30 per cent reduction in power consumption.
According to recent rumours, MediaTek is preparing to release its new flagship Dimensity 9400 SoC processor, which could contain more than 30 billion transistors. This number is impressive considering that Apple's A13 Bionic processor used in the iPhone 11 contains 8.5 billion transistors and the A17 Pro processor used in the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max contains 19 billion transistors.
Samsung, looking to boost revenues and profits from its semiconductor division after several years of decline, has received an important order from NVIDIA to produce AI chips.
Qualcomm, a leading microchip maker, is internally testing at least two versions of the new Snapdragon X Plus chip.
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