THE FUSE

You may not hear much about MediaTek these days, but it's still going strong. The Taiwanese chip manufacturer just announced that it's latest smartphone processor, the flagship Dimensity 9600 Pro, is its first to be built using TSMC's cutting-edge 2-nanometer N2P process — which puts it ahead of its main smartphone processor rival, Qualcomm. The latter is expected to adopt TSMC's 2nm N2P process starting with the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 that's set to arrive next week.