Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chip offers hardware-accelerated ray tracingThere's support for dual 5G SIMs, WiFi 7 and 200-megapixel cameras.By K. Holt, 11.15.2022
Hitting the Books: Steve Jobs' iPhone obsession led to Apple's silicon revolutionMany of the chips "Designed by Apple in California" are now manufactured exclusively in Taiwan. By A. Tarantola, 10.09.2022
Biden administration reveals details of its $50 billion chip investment planOver half of the funding will go toward advanced chip manufacturing.By K. Holt, 09.06.2022
Samsung is investing $356 billion in chips, biotech and AIIt expects to hire 80,000 more employees by 2026.By K. Holt, 05.24.2022
Chromebooks are finally getting AMD Ryzen 5000 C-series CPUsAcer and HP are among the first manufacturers to use the chips.By K. Holt, 05.05.2022
Intel plans to build a $19 billion chip plant in GermanyIt'll invest up to $88 billion in Europe over the next decade.By K. Holt, 03.15.2022
ARM will reportedly lay off up to 1,000 employees after NVIDIA sale falls throughThe job cuts will affect employees in the US and the UK.By M. Moon, 03.15.2022
Samsung will build a $17 billion semiconductor factory in TexasIt'll boost semiconductor production in the US.By M. Moon, 11.24.2021
Engadget Podcast: Digging into Google Tensor and the Pixel 6Plus some updates from the ongoing Activision Blizzard case. By C. Low, 08.06.2021
Smart home networking standard Project CHIP rebrands as 'Matter'The first Matter-branded devices will go on sale before the end of 2021.By I. Bonifacic, 05.11.2021
Samsung's Exynos 1080 is its first five-nanometer chipThe chip will debut in a Vivo phone at some point in the future.By D. Cooper, 11.12.2020
Qualcomm's latest smartwatch chips support 16-megapixel camerasThe Snapdragon Wear 4100 and 4100+ are faster and weirder than ever.By C. Low, 06.30.2020
MIT fit tens of thousands of artificial brain synapses on a single chipThe ‘brain-on-a-chip’ hardware could lead to tiny, portable AI devices.By C. Fisher, 06.08.2020
The USA's latest trade legislation is more bad news for Huawei phonesThe company just lost its main chip provider.By R. England, 05.18.2020
Light-emitting silicon overcomes a major obstacle to denser, faster chipsIt's a solution 50 years in the making.By J. Fingas, 04.12.2020
Samsung's latest storage chip will make flagship smartphones fasterTransfer 100GB of data in under 90 seconds.By R. England, 03.17.2020
Intel’s neuromorphic chip learns to ‘smell’ 10 hazardous chemicalsIt could help ‘electronic noses’ detect weapons, narcotics and disease.By C. Fisher, 03.16.2020
Stanford researchers manage to put a particle accelerator on a silicon chipTheir prototype uses infrared light, rather than microwave radiation.By C. Fisher, 01.06.2020
Samsung says its new flagship processor is 20 percent fasterThe Exynos 990 will probably debut in the Galaxy S11.By R. England, 10.24.2019
OmniVision wins Guinness World Record for its tiny medical image sensorThe ultra small device is cost effective and more comfortable for patients.By R. England, 10.22.2019