Analogipiirien markkina käy nyt kuumana. Hinnat nousevat ja toimitusajat venyvät. Yhdysvaltalainen Silanna Semiconductor yrittää kääntää asetelman päälaelleen lupaamalla jotain poikkeuksellista. Yhtiö tarjoaa kahden vuoden hintalukon kaikille suorituskykyisille AD-muuntimilleen.

Samsung has quietly increased the US prices of the Galaxy Z Flip 7, Tab S11, Tab S11 Ultra, and more

Some of these price hikes are absolutely massive, and perhaps worst of all, they suggest many new Galaxy devices this year will be costlier.

https://www.phonearena.com/news/samsung-us-price-hikes-galaxy-z-flip-7-tab-s11-ultra-tab-s10-fe-more_id179647

Samsung and Apple Grew in Q1 2026 as Global Smartphone Shipments Decline 4.1% amid memory constraints, according to IDC
https://www.idc.com/resource-center/press-releases/1q26-mpt-top5/

In the realm of his other unrealistic plans and potentially broken promises, Elon Musk’s Terafab stands out as one of the biggest pipedreams, promising to boost semiconductor production by 50x for the benefit of orbital datacenters. But hey, this idea must have legs, because now Intel has announced it is joining the aspiring Bond villain’s initiative.

“If you add up all the fabs on earth combined, they’re only about 2% of what we need for the… Terafab project,” Musk said.

In case you were wondering, Musk has never built a wafer fab before. Neither has any of his companies. So when the world’s richest man revealed a pie-in-the-sky plan to build a factory capable of churning out enough chips to make his dream a reality, folks were understandably skeptical.

Fabs are among the most complex and expensive facilities in the world. It can cost $30 billion and take as long as five years to bring a modestly-sized facility online, and that’s if you already know what you’re doing.

There is nothing modest about what Musk has proposed.

“We will have all of the equipment necessary to make a chip of any kind [including] logical memory,” Musk said of the first Terafab facility, which will purportedly be located in Austin, Texas, which has become the fabulist hecto-billionaire’s geographic center of gravity over the last few years. “So in a single building, we can create a lithography mask, make the chip, test the chip, make another mask, and have an incredibly fast recursive loop for improving the chip design.”

Intel does bring some much-needed expertise to the endeavor, though it’s yet to disclose to what extent it’s involved, stating only that it was “proud to join the Terafab project with SpaceX, xAI, and Tesla to help refactor silicon fab technology.”