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Evergreen explainers on the tech behind the products.

Where is your GPU made? Locations 16 brands will and won't disclose

Where is your GPU made? Locations 16 brands will and won't disclose

You'd think it was a trick question — Taiwan, TSMC, obviously. But that's one link in a chain of five: one company designs the chip, another fabricates it, a third packages it, a fourth solders it onto a board, and a fifth puts its name on the box. We traced all sixteen — six chip designers, ten board brands — to their headquarters, research sites and factories. Intel publishes every fab it owns. Sapphire publishes no address anywhere, in any language. Where the trail stops, we say so.

History of ARM: Creation of the most widespread processor technology

History of ARM: Creation of the most widespread processor technology

ARM processors power over 99% of the world's smartphones — yet the architecture was born in a tiny UK startup in 1978 - Acorn Computers with just a dozen engineers and a BBC Micro. This article traces ARM's full journey: from its origins as an in-house chip project, through the landmark 1990 joint venture with Apple and VLSI Technology, to the licensing model that quietly became the foundation of modern computing.