Chips
Every Magna Bureau story on chips: 6 articles, investigations and analysis in one place.
Last updated: October 2026
The Two Chokepoints Inside Every Chip — Magna Bureau
One Dutch company prints the machines. One Taiwanese company prints the chips. China refines the graphite inside the batteries.
NewsSamsung bets big on the machines that print the AI era
Samsung commits to High-NA EUV chipmaking tools in memory production by 2028 — an industry first. The ASML deal that redraws the AI chip map.
NewsThe foundry that can't keep up:… — Magna Bureau
Apple, Nvidia and their rivals just raised 2-nanometre orders by up to 20%. TSMC's most advanced lines are full, its Arizona bet has swollen to $265 billion — and the AI chip shortage now looks like a
NewsThe workaround chip: China may let ByteDance buy
Beijing is weighing whether to let ByteDance and Alibaba buy Nvidia's new RTX PRO 5500 — a workstation-class chip analysts expect to slip past US export…
NewsHuawei Folds Its Chips Like Paper — and… — Magna Bureau
The Mate 90's Kirin 9050 Pro squeezes more power from older factories with a 3D wiring trick, while DeepSeek hands Huawei's AI chips an open-source software arsenal. The catch, Huawei admits, is capac
NewsPink October: The Race to Outrun Breast… — Magna Bureau
October is breast cancer awareness month, and France is all in — 61,000 diagnoses a year, a national screening push, and a Paris lab growing 'tumors on a chip' to beat the disease in four days.