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Etched just demonstrated working silicon on TSMC's N4P process and walked away with over $1 billion in signed customer contracts, all before most enterprises had heard of the company. That debut, arr…

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Etched, a two-year-old AI chip startup, raised **$800 million** and disclosed strategic backing from VentureTech Alliance, a venture firm linked to TSMC. The company successfully taped out its first chip on TSMC's **N4P process** and has already booked **$1 billion in forward sales contracts** for its inference systems, with shipments expected in summer 2026.

Transformer ASIC startup Etched comes out of stealth with first-pass silicon on TSMC N4P, $800M raised, and more than $1B in signed customer contracts.

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**MediaTek** has just officially unveiled its new mid-to-high-end processor, the **MediaTek Dimensity 8550** , featuring eight high-performance cores. This new processor features an **All Big Core** architecture manufactured on **a 4nm TSMC (N4P) process** , completely eliminating traditional efficiency cores to focus on a cluster of **eight ARM Cortex-A725 cores** (with a 3.4 GHz prime core). On the graphics side, it retains the powerful **ARM Mali-G720 MC8 GPU** , a high-performance solution that leverages HyperEngine to run demanding games. It also integrates an **NPU 880** coprocessor, specifically designed to run the **Google Gemini Nano V3** ecosystem locally thanks to its LLM Booster accelerator and hardware compression technologies. It offers native support for**LPDDR5X RAM at 9600 Mbps** , high-speed **UFS 4.0** storage, and compatibility with **WQHD displays at 144 Hz**. On the multimedia front, it includes the Imagiq 1080 image processor, which supports camera sensors up to**320 MP** and hardware decoding of the modern **AV1** video codec. Wireless connectivity is handled by an integrated **5G Advanced** modem with download speeds of up to **5.17 Gbps** , complemented by wireless technologies such as **Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.4**. ### Availability of the MediaTek Dimensity 8550 * The new **MediaTek Dimensity 8550**is now available on the market in mid-range smartphones such as the upcoming **HONOR 600 Pro.**

The chipset is built on TSMC's N4P node and has eight Cortex-A725 CPU cores, a Mali-G720 MC8 GPU and an NPU 880. Earlier this year, MediaTek unveiled the...

Earlier this year, MediaTek unveiled the Dimensity 8500, a 4nm (TSMC N4P) chipset with all-big CPU cores (eight Cortex-A725) and a Mali-G720 MC8 GPU. Now the company is refreshing that chip as the Dimensity 8550. The key addition here is the LLM Booster and support for Google’s Gemini Nano V3, which is designed to run on your phone. This new version of the chip still uses the NPU 880. The rest is the same. The CPU has its top Cortex-A725 core running at up to 3.4GHz. This core is equipped with 1MB of L2 cache. The second cluster is three A725s at up to 3.2GHz, each with 512KB of L2...