Intel may lead in process node technology and dominate the PC market, but a whole new crop of companies has arisen to rule in high mobility (smartphones, tablets, Ultrabooks).

FORBES: Globalfoundries Pirouettes Around The Process Node Problem

As recently as a month ago, journalists were asking me questions about whether Intel was just crushing everyone else in process node technology, leaving them three or four years behind.

FORBES: Globalfoundries Pirouettes Around The Process Node Problem

These guys are fabricated using the 28nm technology node, and are backwards compatible with previous generations of LTE and other wireless broadband standards, giving consumers using USB modems powered by the MDM9625 or MDM9225 chipsets an uninterrupted broadband data connection on nearly any network around the world.

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SanDisk is building both new SSDs using its industry-leading 19 nanometer (nm) technology, the world's smallest, most advanced manufacturing process node.

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