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It seems that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is not only having problems with its manufacturing node at 7 nm, since now the problems seem to have also extended to the manufacturing node at 16 nm, a node still very much alive but not producing enough chips to satisfy the demand. What is happening with TSMC? The problems that TSMC is having to meet the demand for 7 nm chips is well known, and although the company has multiplied the production of these chips by three, they still do not cover all the orders they receive. And, while the company is still working on solving these supply problems that, among others, are affecting AMD, things get even more complicated because they are also beginning to suffer delays in the deliveries of the 16 nm node chips. There are also problems with the 16 nm, what happens to TSMC? It seems that at this point the manufacturing node at 16 nm would be a thing of the past, but nothing is further from the truth: it is a very live node, and many customers continue to design and manufacture products based on this lithography, given that the manufacturing process It is very mature, it works very well and they are much cheaper chips than smaller nodes, and therefore they are much more profitable. TSMC logo with background chips The fact is that, according to the source, TSMC is delaying the deliveries of these 16 nm chips to its customers because they are not manufacturing enough, so from where there is not can not be taken and are delaying many shipments. The causes of all these problems are uncertain, since TSMC has not issued any statement in this regard, at least for now. It is speculated with many different reasons, but the ones that have more weight and that make the most sense are that the company's factories have work saturation and do not give enough, or that they are still suffering the consequences of that cut of the electricity supply that They had a while ago. Another reason with which it is speculated is that they may have had contamination problems in the "clean rooms" (rooms in which not a single dust mite can enter to avoid contaminating production), because although it is difficult because they are taken Many security measures, is something that can happen. In any case, as we said the company has not issued any statement yet to explain what is happening to them, but that TSMC does not stop having problems is already a fact at this point, and this in the end is harming large-scale manufacturers such as AMD .

AMD had some news to share yesterday regarding its enthusiast-grade Threadripper CPUs as well as the budget-focused Ryzen 3 at the other end of the spectrum. While we now know specs and pricing for their range topping CPUs, the company left out pricing details for Ryzen 3. If a recent leak is to be believed, however, the lineup is set to start at just $109 for the Ryzen 3 1200 and $129 for the 1300X. That’s incredibly good value considering that — at least on paper — the chips are in Core i5 territory in terms of compute performance. As a refresher, the lower end Ryzen 3 1200 features base and boost frequencies of 3.1GHz and 3.4GHz, while the 1300X features base and boost frequencies of 3.5GHz and 3.7GHz. They both pack four cores and four threads (no SMT support) and will fit into current AM4 motherboards. Moreover, unlike Intel’s counterparts, AMD’s entire lineup is overclockable, opening up the potential for even better value for budget builders — it remains to be seen how well they overclock, though. The leak came from a poster on reddit — first spotted by Wccftech and reported by Forbes — who claims to have obtained the information from a distributor in his country. We won’t have to wait much longer to see if the information check out as Ryzen 3 is slated to arrive on July 27. In the meantime look out for our Ryzen 3 preview next week. We'll tweak current Ryzen chips to match the specifications of the upcoming budget processors and simulate their performance so you can know what to expect ahead of release.

It is a problem as serious as it is limited, but the reality is that Intel is again current due to problems in its processors, which added to the shortage of many of these are getting close a week not too good. The discovery has been a joint work of Google and Mozilla, since it has affected first of all the two most po[CENSORED]r browsers in the world: Chrome and Firefox. The Google team has been working intensely on a problem that they detected months ago with Intel Gemini Lake processors, where they state verbatim, they have been observing "impossible" bugs on that Swan platform. Specifically, they detail that the failures occur in the processors within the family 6 model 122 and Stepping 1, where for the moment such blockages only occur in the 64-bit version of Chrome and in the prologue of two functions. According to Google, given that blocking involves reading bytes of incorrect instructions when crossing a 16-byte limit and since blocking seems to happen only with particular 16-byte alignments, it seems reasonable to force the function's alignments to a multiple of 32 to See if this safely prevents blockages. This would prevent, at least in theory, that your Chrome browser crashes, which basically forces you to align the functions to 32 bytes, that is, if we get the 32-bit version of the browser the processor should not be seen in this position, avoiding Possible blockages It should be remembered that Gemini Lake is the successor of Apollo Lake, so they are low-power processors aimed at laptops and low-power equipment. They are manufactured in the 14 nm lithographic process and are based on the Goldmont Plus architecture, so it includes the Celeron J4005, J4105, N4000, N4100 and Pentium Silver J5005 and N5000. Mozilla through Firefox is reporting the same problems that Google has had with Gemini Lake, but it goes further, as they claim the whole problem seems to have been introduced through a microcode update for the CPU. Given these criticisms and problems, Intel has offered an answer, where they have affirmed that the reliability of their products is a priority. They ensure that under a complex set of micro architectural conditions, users may experience failures in applications and systems based on Intel Pentium Silver and Intel Celeron processors under the Gemini Lake architecture. Therefore, Intel has released a microcode update to its customers and partners that mitigates this problem, so they are working with them to make it available as quickly as possible to end users. This is certainly hopeful, but it must be confirmed that, in effect, said microcode solves the problem of blockages, since we are talking about the two most used browsers currently in the world, so the number of users that may be affected should be very large. Until such a microcode update arrives in the form of UEFI or BIOS, it is recommended that if the crashes are suffered, opt for the 32-bit version of any of the browsers described.