
Samsung gets $16.5 billion chip deal lifeline from Tesla
TSMC rival finally gets a win in foundry fight
Samsung Electronics has signed a 22.8 trillion won (about $16.5 billion) chip foundry contract with what it calls a "global company" which the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street are convinced is Tesla.

SK hynix preps 24 Gb GDDR7 for beefier GPUs
Kicks off HBM4 supply
SK hynix is cranking up the memory arms race, confirming it’s building 24 Gb GDDR7 modules to give next-gen GPUs fatter VRAM buffers while lining up HBM4 for AI and HPC workloads.

Apple engineers grumble that iPhone fold looks like everything else
Job’s Mob's foldable looks like Samsung clone
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple is finally edging toward the foldable market, with its first iPhone Fold pencilled in for 2026 but behind the scenes, engineers are far from thrilled.

Intel's 18A process creeps forward
Rumoured to be 55 per cent
Analysts at KeyBanc reckon Intel’s 18A yields have inched up to 55 per cent which is a modest five per cent improvement quarter-on-quarter.

Seagate ships massive 30TB hard drives to the masses
Heat-assisted tech delivers monster storage for $600
After more than two decades of hype and endless delays, Seagate has brought its heat-assisted magnetic recording drives to the great unwashed. Now, the riff-raff can buy a 30TB Seagate IronWolf Pro or Exos M hard drive if they have a spare $600. A a slightly smaller 28TB version is going for $570.

Nvidia ramps up SOCAMM modular memory production
Headed for AI PCs and servers
Nvidia is preparing up to 800,000 LPDDR-based SOCAMM modules this year ahead of a next-gen SOCAMM 2 launch designed to give its AI products superior performance and higher efficiency while remaining easily upgradeable.

Qualcomm might roll out proper smartwatch chip
Snapdragon Wear W6 ditches recycled silicon for something bespoke
The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell on earth yarn claiming that Qualcomm is finally going to take the wearable market seriously.

Intel's 18A node edges ahead of Samsung chip yields
There is a fight on for second place
Troubled Chipzilla appears to be clawing its way back into the semiconductor race, at least according to a research note from KeyBanc Capital Markets.

Samsung braces for worst quarter
US chip curbs and HBM3E delays dent profit forecast
Samsung Electronics stunned markets by forecasting a 56 per cent plunge in second‑quarter operating profit to Won 4.6 trn (€3.3 bn, which is its weakest performance in six quarters.

TSMC throws cash at US plants while Japan is left waiting
Chipmaker races Trump tariffs as Samsung’s fab stands idle
While Samsung’s much-hyped Texas fab is still sitting around looking pretty, struggling to find buyers, TSMC is bulldozing ahead with its American chip-building binge.