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"Compared with TSMC, Intel is reportedly offering salaries that are 20–30% higher while providing a workload that is roughly half as heavy, successfully attracting some U.S. engineers to switch over."
The mention of workload difference caught my eye. If it's true, it says more about the...
Former TSMC senior vice president Wei-Jen Lo’s move to Intel—along with allegations that he took sub-2nm documents—has now sparked reports that Intel is also trying to recruit TSMC engineers in Arizona. According to Liberty Times, sources say Intel has recently been aggressively poaching...
The transistor density uses the standard cell height. For a 6-track cell, it means the cell height is 6 track metal pitches, although the rails occur after every four tracks. The rails would be 3 times the signal track metal width.
If the gate pitch is 54 nm, at 125 MTr/mm2, the cell height...
This is the X post I referred to:
定焦数码 mentioned it's between TSMC N6 and Samsung 5LPE. 5LPE pitches are given here: https://fuse.wikichip.org/news/2823/samsung-5-nm-and-4-nm-update/. 54 nm gate pitch and 36 nm M2 track pitch, giving 126 MTr/mm2.
The 125 MTr/mm2 came from a Weibo post on March 24 this year by 定焦数码, later reposted on X the same day by @Jukanlosreve.
If the SMIC N+3 125 MTr/mm2 density is real, then we can project some pitches, using calibration from https://www.angstronomics.com/p/the-truth-of-tsmc-5nm.
If the gate...
Huawei's upcoming Mate 80 Pro Max has shown up on Geekbench with a new Kirin 9030 SoC. It is the first smartphone chip to be manufactured on the SMIC N+3 node.
Anil Ganti, Published 11/25/2025 🇪🇸 🇵🇹
SMIC had achieved a significant breakthrough in its semiconductor manufacturing prowess. It has...
No, it is targeted at ASML staff, although customers can pay for their own staff training. High-NA only covered in the Netherlands.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/asml-launches-technical-academy-phoenix-train-in-demand-engineers-2025-11-20/
In publications (CSTIC, CN patents) they often do use 28 nm pitch or 30 nm pitch as examples. But whether that actually pans out, we'll have to see. TSMC N5 is in fact 28 nm MMP (35 nm track M2P).
I remember the X90 teardown now. I hadn't known it had been promoted by the state as 5nm the month before. The teardown must have truly caused some embarrassment, TechInsights now blacklisted in China. But what's more significant is whether Huawei itself had considered X90 any generation beyond...
Xiangdixian is the key player here; it almost dissolved last year, but apparently got bailed out by Anfu (a battery developer?), probably with government arrangement.
At its website, Xiangdixian maintains it is doing domestic GPU production; it previously used 12nm, which likely came from TSMC...
This development, which happened a little over two months ago, may not signify much in the GPU world (compared to Huawei and NVIDIA obviously), but a 5nm GPU tapeout in China at this point is significant, since last November TSMC and Samsung have stopped shipping AI-related chips at 7nm and...
On September 3, Anfu Technology stated on its interactive platform that the new generation "Fuxi" architecture chip developed by Xiangdi has completed tape-out verification. The chip performs excellently in terms of graphics rendering capabilities and parallel computing performance.
It is...
China uses groundbreaking desktop-sized EUV light source to make 14-nanometre chips
Hefei-based company improves manufacture of the semiconductors used to power industrial automation and electric cars
Zhang Tong in Beijing
Published: 2:00pm, 21 Nov 2025
Updated: 6:27pm, 21 Nov 2025
Chinese...
https://www.trendforce.com/news/2025/11/21/news-intel-ceo-lip-bu-tan-denies-allegations-that-former-tsmc-exec-brought-trade-secrets-in/
With speculation mounting that former TSMC SVP Wei-Jen Lo may have taken key materials to Intel, the company’s CEO Lip-Bu Tan has spoken out in response...
