Intel Foundry is apparently farming out some of its EMIB packaging work to Amkor over in South Korea, and people are reading this as a sign that demand for their advanced packaging tech is getting pretty wild. The company has enough capacity stateside to handle things, but outsourcing to Amkor just speeds everything up way faster than building new fabs would. EMIB is expected to drive a bunch of external foundry revenue before the 14A process drops, and supposedly big names like MediaTek, Google, Qualcomm, and Tesla are all interested.
Part of why customers are looking at Intel Foundry is because TSMC's CoWoS capacity is completely maxed out from AI companies hogging all the slots. Right at this moment, companies like NVIDIA have to...
Producer Noriaki Okamura says Metal Gear Solid might get more remakes and fresh games down the line, but nothing is locked in yet. He pointed out that each game in the series would need its own remake strategy since the franchise spans everything from old pixel art titles to modern cinematic stuff. The approach they used for Delta Snake Eater would not work across the board, which hints that the original 8-bit games probably would not get the full 3D treatment.
The one game everyone actually needs on modern systems is Guns of the Patriots, since it is still trapped on PlayStation 3. Okamura mentioned the PS3 development was notoriously awful, and the game has some weird, complex code that would make updating it a pain. Most other...
JPMorgan's tracker shows Apple basically crushed it with the iPhone 17 lineup during Black Friday week compared to how the iPhone 16 did around the same stretch last year. Wait times jumped to six days versus just four for the previous generation, and the base model keeps sitting in double-digit delivery windows because Apple can't manufacture units fast enough to match what people want.
The regular iPhone 17 drives most of the hype, while the Air and Pro models each added two extra days to their lead times. Counterpoint Research pointed out that iPhones grabbed a quarter of all smartphone sales in China and helped Apple potentially snag the global smartphone crown for the first time in over ten years by pushing their market share up...
NVIDIA locked down exclusive dibs on TSMC's A16 manufacturing process for their Feynman GPU lineup that drops after Rubin chips hit the market. The Taiwanese fab is basically building production capacity just to keep Jensen Huang happy, and Apple might skip this node entirely to jump straight to A14 tech when they move past their current two-nanometer stuff.
The A16 process brings speed bumps around eight to ten percent, with power cuts hitting fifteen to twenty percent compared to older nodes, plus it uses nanosheet transistors with backside power rails that work better for datacenter workloads. TSMC plans to fire up mass production by late next year at their Kaohsiung facility, and the green team gets first access to wafers before...
Samsung apparently got tired of people roasting them for slow charging speeds, and the Galaxy S26 lineup might actually ship with decent wireless power delivery for once. Someone dug through OneUI 8.5 beta code and found references to super-fast wireless charging, which lines up with rumors that the base S26 and S26 Plus will hit 20W wirelessly while the Ultra model pushes 25W.
The Ultra is supposedly getting a 5,000mAh cell with 60W wired charging, the Plus bumps up to 4,900mAh with 45W wired support, and the regular S26 lands at 4,300mAh with 25W wired speeds. Chinese phone makers are out here flexing 10,000mAh batteries, but Samsung keeps playing it safe with capacity upgrades that feel pretty mid by comparison.
Intel's apparently cooking up a refresh for their budget Wildcat Lake chips before the original lineup even drops. Some leaker named Jaykihn says the company plans to drop a beefier config with four performance cores and four low-power efficiency cores, which doubles the P-core count from the base version that only rocks two. The base Wildcat Lake stuff launches sometime next year with a 2+0+4 setup and two Xe3 graphics cores, while the refresh probably hits around the start of the following year.
These entry-level processors use a chiplet design instead of being monolithic, and they're aimed at cheap laptops that need decent AI performance without burning through battery. The whole lineup sits below the Panther Lake flagship series...
Samsung's chip-making wing is basically ghosting its own phone division over DRAM supplies because memory prices went absolutely bonkers this year. The semiconductor crew refuses to lock in more than three months of RAM shipments at a time for Galaxy devices, and executives had to step in just to secure chips through the end of the quarter. Twelve gigs of LPDDR5X memory jumped from thirty-three bucks to seventy dollars between January and November, which explains why the foundry side wants to chase more profitable deals elsewhere.
The whole mess puts the Galaxy S26 launch at risk since the phone team might have to jack up prices to cover inflated component costs. Samsung's chip division is prioritizing profit margins to hit massive...
ASUS dropped another Mini-ITX board for AM5 socket builds, and this one rocks an all-white colorway for people obsessed with matching their entire setup. The ROG STRIX B850-I Gaming WIFI7 W keeps the same specs as the black version but swaps out the paint job.
The board packs a 13-phase power system with 90A stages, two DDR5 slots that can hit 8400 MT/s when overclocked, and a single PCIe 5.0 x16 slot plus two M.2 drives running at PCIe 5.0 x4 speeds. There's a chunky VRM heatsink with a built-in fan, and the rear I/O throws in Wi-Fi 7, Intel 2.5Gb ethernet, a USB-C port with DisplayPort alt mode, and the usual Clear CMOS button.
Pricing should land around $270 since the black model costs that much, and buyers get support for upcoming...
Sony quietly tweaked the liquid metal cooling setup on newer PS5 and PS5 Slim units after people kept complaining about thermal paste leaking all over the place inside their consoles. The company borrowed the deeper groove design from the PS5 Pro, and the fix showed up on CFI-2100 and CFI-2200 model numbers. You can tell if your console got the update by checking whether the thermal interface area has engraved lines instead of a flat surface.
Anyone with an older unit shouldn't panic unless overheating becomes a real problem, and reapplying liquid metal yourself is apparently a massive pain that requires professional help. Buyers shopping for a new console should hunt down the CFI-2116 B01Y revision to get the improved thermal...
