New Dimensity 9000 stakes claim on top-tier phones In what may be the company's most significant chipset announcement yet, MediaTek recently unveiled its Dimensity 9000 system-on-chip (SoC), a premium mobile ...

Our latest teardown reveals Apple's design tricks As a part of our analyses of the latest and most significant mobile phone designs, we've conducted a thorough teardown of Apple's iPhone ...

US trade sanctions prompt innovation In 2021, the Chinese semiconductor industry has embarked on a fundamental recalibration of its business goals. Central to this rethink is a focus on established ...

More functions, less battery drain with new 5G designs A PDF of this article is available in Chinese. Click here to download. In the first of a three-part blog series ...

Country aims to build up domestic production of silicon fab tools Semiconductor fabrication relies on an ecosystem of equipment suppliers to fill the vast expanses of cleanrooms and to process ...

Domestic foundries seek to benefit from geopolitical power plays Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC), China's largest pure-play foundry, announced in September 2021 its plans to invest $8.9 billion in a ...

The company outlined its aims at the IAA Mobility show After being cancelled in 2020 amid the pandemic, the Frankfurt Auto Show, one of the world's largest motor shows, was ...

UK Competition and Markets Authority orders phase two investigation Just a few weeks ago we published an update on the status of Nvidia's proposed $40 billion acquisition of Arm from ...

Spoke and Qualcomm collaborate to bring connected bikes into the smart city Whenever I read about smart cities and mobility, it always seems that the car is at the very ...

The complexity of radio frequency design A version of this article is available in Chinese. Click here to download. A decade ago, a fundamental change began in the radio frequency ...