Tachyum Slovakia filed for bankruptcy in Bratislava on October 22, 2026, and a municipal court has initiated proceedings after finding the filing met legal requirements. Under Slovak law, a company that files voluntarily is presumed insolvent, so Tachyum Slovakia is technically bankrupt, according to Forbes. The company never shipped working silicon for its long-delayed Prodigy processor, which was first unveiled in 2018.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-11-02
Three contractor employees were killed and a fourth left in intensive care after falling from an upper floor during steel-hoisting work at TSMC's Fab 22 construction site in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Officials suspect a bolt on a steel connection plate broke, sending the workers and steel components down; TSMC and the Southern Taiwan Science Park Bureau have halted related steel hoisting and launched an investigation.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-10-21
Android Authority ran Geekbench 6 tests on a reference phone powered by Qualcomm's new Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 chip, built on TSMC's 2nm process with prime CPU cores clocked up to 5GHz. Single-core performance rose about 10% over last year's Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, while multi-core gains were minimal at roughly 1.5% despite efficiency cores jumping to 4GHz.
androidauthority.com
· 2026-09-24
Qualcomm has unveiled two high-end mobile processors simultaneously, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6, both built on a new Oryon CPU revision with a 5GHz peak clock speed. The chips share the same X105 5G modem, FastConnect 8800 wireless module, imaging tools like Intelligent Pixel Control and Elite Color Engine, and a new Hexagon Element Accelerator for on-device AI, though some AI capabilities differ subtly between the two versions.
androidauthority.com
· 2026-09-23
MediaTek unveiled the Dimensity 9600 Pro, built on TSMC's 2nm process, alongside the 3nm Dimensity 9600M for a broader range of premium phones. The Pro chip features a dedicated neural processing unit for on-device generative AI and boosts prompt processing speed by 51% over its predecessor. MediaTek did not name partner manufacturers or give launch dates for devices using the chips.
techspot.com
· 2026-09-16
Apple introduced its first foldable smartphone, the iPhone Duo, at a Cupertino event, featuring a 7.6-inch inner folding screen and a 5.4-inch outer display, both protected by Ceramic Shield 2. The device runs on Apple's new A20 Pro chip built on TSMC's 2nm process, with a titanium frame and dual rear cameras including a 48MP main sensor and 12MP telephoto lens.
techspot.com
· 2026-09-09
A Weibo leak from Digital Chat Station claims Qualcomm's upcoming flagship chip, model SM8975, will be branded Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 and built on TSMC's 2nm process with two prime cores at 5.01GHz plus three performance and three efficiency cores, paired with an Adreno 850 GPU. The same leak details MediaTek's rival Dimensity 9600 Pro, also on 2nm, using dual 4.55GHz cores alongside performance and efficiency cores and a Mali G2 Ultra GPU.
androidauthority.com
· 2026-08-25
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