Inside TSMC’s new chip fab where Apple will make chips in the U.S.

Inside TSMC’s new chip fab where Apple will make chips in the U.S.

Atop a newly completed, 3.5-million-square-foot building that stands on 1,100 acres in the Arizona desert north of Phoenix is a giant logo of a microchip wafer and the letters TSMC.  Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company’s first Arizona chip fabrication plant, or fab, is making history because it’s the most advanced chip fab on U.S. soil, and … Read more

Tesla investors have questions for Musk about his activism for Trump

Tesla investors have questions for Musk about his activism for Trump

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk speaks with former president Donald Trump during a campaign event at the Butler Farm Show, Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024, in Butler, Pa.  Jabin Botsford | The Washington Post | Getty Images As Tesla prepares for quarterly results Wednesday, many investors have one big issue on their minds: Donald Trump. On a … Read more

Foxconn chairman says AI boom still has time to go as LLMs evolve

Foxconn chairman says AI boom still has time to go as LLMs evolve

Chairman of Foxconn Young Liu delivers a speech during the Hon Hai Tech Day in Taipei on Oct. 18, 2023. I-hwa Cheng | AFP | Getty Images The boom in corporate investment into artificial intelligence infrastructure still has some way to go as large language models are continuing to evolve, according to the CEO of … Read more

Intel sells stake in UK chip designer Arm amid company-wide restructuring and cost cuts

Intel sells stake in UK chip designer Arm amid company-wide restructuring and cost cuts

A sign is posted in front of Intel headquarters on August 01, 2024 in Santa Clara, California.  Justin Sullivan | Getty Images News | Getty Images Intel has sold its 1.18 million share stake in British chip firm Arm Holdings, according to a regulatory filing, as the California chip designer shores up its balance sheet … Read more

AMD, Nvidia jump as chip stocks rally from earnings, geopolitics boost

AMD, Nvidia jump as chip stocks rally from earnings, geopolitics boost

Shares of global semiconductor firms rallied on Wednesday as they were boosted by some positive earnings in the sector and a report of potentially less severe U.S. export restrictions on China. AMD was among the morning’s big winners with shares opening up 5% as of 11 a.m. after the company reported a top- and bottom-line … Read more

How the massive power draw of generative AI is overtaxing our grid

How the massive power draw of generative AI is overtaxing our grid

Thanks to the artificial intelligence boom, new data centers are springing up as quickly as companies can build them. This has translated into huge demand for power to run and cool the servers inside. Now concerns are mounting about whether the U.S. can generate enough electricity for the widespread adoption of AI, and whether our … Read more

Samsung Galaxy Ring launch: Price, specs, feature, availability

Samsung Galaxy Ring launch: Price, specs, feature, availability

The Samsung Galaxy Ring has the ability to track various health metrics such as heart rate. It is Samsung’s first foray into the smart ring category of product as it hopes to keep users locked into its ecosystem of devices from smartwatches to smartphones. Arjun Kharpal | CNBC PARIS — Samsung launched the Galaxy Ring … Read more

Nvidia is little known despite topping $3 trillion in market cap

Nvidia is little known despite topping  trillion in market cap

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang makes a speech at an event at COMPUTEX forum in Taipei, Taiwan June 4, 2024.  Ann Wang | Reuters Apple, Microsoft, Amazon and Google were the four leading global brands at the end of 2023, according to consulting firm Interbrand. They’re are also four of the world’s five most valuable companies. … Read more

British telco giant BT expects to launch 5G standalone this year

British telco giant BT expects to launch 5G standalone this year

An EE mobile phone store, operated by BT Group, in Reading, U.K. in 2020. Jason Alden | Bloomberg | Getty Images BARCELONA, Spain — British telecommunications giant BT says it expects to launch its first so-called stand-alone 5G network in 2024. Howard Watson, BT’s chief technology officer, told CNBC that the telco group plans to … Read more

How the Apple iPhone changed the world

How the Apple iPhone changed the world

When Apple announced the iPhone in 2007, Steve Jobs called it a “revolutionary product” in a handset category that he said needed to be reinvented.  Now, nearly two decades and 42 models later, the iPhone is one of the world’s most popular phones. Apple has sold over 2.3 billion units of the iPhone and has … Read more