According to Techmeme, Netflix privately pursued a Warner Bros. deal while its co-CEO publicly dismissed big media mergers. Meanwhile, India’s Tata Electronics has signed Intel as the first client for its upcoming $14 billion chip facilities in Gujarat and Assam.
Patent activity in gallium nitride (GaN) technology is booming, driven heavily by Chinese innovation. A key highlight from Q3 2025 is a US collaboration developing “phonon bridge” layers to solve critical heat issues in high-power devices.
Intel has officially added support for its BMG-G31 “Big Battlemage” GPU to its software stack. This move signals that a high-end Arc B770 graphics card, a major step up for Intel’s discrete GPU efforts, is nearing launch.
Apple’s top chip executive is reportedly considering leaving the company. This comes as Apple faces a series of high-profile departures and continues to play catch-up in artificial intelligence.
Analyst Jeff Pu expects Intel to secure a deal to fabricate Apple-designed chips for future non-pro iPhones starting in 2028. This would be part of a broader move to diversify Apple’s chipmaking away from TSMC.
onsemi has launched its EliteSiC MOSFETs in an industry-standard T2PAK top-cool package. The move targets the critical thermal management issues in high-power applications like electric vehicles and solar inverters. Initial devices are shipping now, with more planned for late 2025.
Intel is making a major bet on Malaysia’s semiconductor industry. The chip giant will invest $208 million to establish the country as its global center for installation and testing operations.
According to XDA-Developers, Intel’s Arrow Lake desktop CPUs are outperformed in gaming by AMD’s Ryzen X3D chips by 5-10% at 1080p. However, they hold an advantage in productivity and creative tasks like video editing. More critically, system integrators Falcon Northwest and Maingear report the Arro
Samsung’s upcoming Exynos 2600 chip, built on a 2nm process, is generating buzz. But a new report confirms it will be limited to the domestic market for the Galaxy S26 series, with most global models getting Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5.
A new report suggests a Chinese GPU maker, Lisuan, is about to launch a graphics card that could be the first to natively support Windows on ARM. The 7G106 GPU is in mass production and could rival NVIDIA’s 60-series cards. This move targets a desktop ARM market that Western giants have so far skipp
