Muhammad Zuhair Photo

Muhammad Zuhair

Industry Reporter

Muhammad Zuhair is a hardware and technology reporter for Wccftech, specializing in the semiconductor industry and the complex interplay between technology, manufacturing, and geopolitics. His coverage focuses on the corporate strategies and technological roadmaps of industry giants like TSMC, NVIDIA, Samsung, and Intel.

Zuhair's expertise lies in deconstructing complex topics such as fabrication nodes (e.g., 2nm process), the economic impact of policies like the CHIPS Act, and the strategic development of AI infrastructure from NVIDIA, AMD and Intel.

Joined May 2023 2847 articles

Featured In

Featured Work

A man wearing dollar sign glasses in front of a semiconductor wafer background.

No, NVIDIA Isn’t Acquiring Groq, But Jensen Just Executed a ‘Surgical’ Masterclass That No One Was Expecting

NVIDIA's CEO, Jensen Huang, might have given his chip team a 'Christmas' gift that no one would've expected, as it was reported that Team Green had entered into an agreement with Groq, a company that builds specialized AI hardware. And these aren't simple chips; they could be a gateway for NVIDIA to dominate inference-class workloads. To understand why this is a 'Masterclass,' we need to check two distinct battlefronts: the regulatory loopholes Jensen has just leveraged, and the hardware dominance he has secured. It Looks Like an Acquisition. It Smells Like an Acquisition. But On Paper, It's Just a 'Non-Exclusive' […]

7 min read Dec 25, 2025
Man in Intel Foundry vest holding a silicon wafer in front of an Intel sign outdoors.

Intel’s “BSPDN” Power-Delivery Method on 18A Is a Major Technical Win That May Also Be Holding Back Customers For Now

Intel's 18A process was a breakthrough for the foundry division, especially with a successful Panther Lake launch, but here's why external adoption is limited for now. Intel's PowerVia Technology Paves The Way Towards Future Customer Commitments, But Not Right Now Intel Foundry has been struggling with customer commitments for several years now, but the division has worked extensively on the 18A process, with foundations laid by ex-CEO Pat Gelsinger. The node has seen recent success with its integration into the Panther Lake lineup, and given how Intel's latest APU platform has turned out, experts are optimistic about Intel Foundry's progress. […]

3 min read Feb 8, 2026
A person in a black leather jacket holds a computer chip in their hand while standing in front of a tech-themed background.

NVIDIA’s Blackwell Ultra Pushes “Agentic AI” Performance to New Heights, Delivering Up to 50× Higher Tokens/Watt & Stronger Long-Context Workloads

NVIDIA's Blackwell Ultra is the modern-day computing option for hyperscalers, and in newer benchmarks, the GB300 NVL72 shows immense performance in low-latency and long context workloads. NVIDIA's Blackwell Ultra AI Racks Now Feature Top-Tier Agentic Performance, Driven By NVLink Upgrades The AI industry has evolved across multiple layers since its original boom back in 2022, and right now, we are seeing a major shift towards agentic computing, driven by applications/wrappers built on frontier models. At the same time, for infrastructure providers like NVIDIA, it has become increasingly important to have ample memory bandwidth and performance onboard to meet the latency […]

3 min read Feb 16, 2026

Recent Posts

An ASUS ProArt graphics card is shown with dual fans and 'GEFORCE RTX' text visible on the side.

ASUS’s New ‘ProArt’ GeForce RTX 5090 Is Surprisingly One of the Smallest Yet, Borrowing Elements From the Founders Edition

Jan 7, 2026
A person wearing headphones holds a cigar-like object inside an industrial facility with yellow lighting.

Elon Musk Claims Tesla Will Build a 2nm ‘TeraFab,’ But Dismisses the Need for a Cleanroom, Saying He’d Smoke a Cigar Inside the Fab

Jan 7, 2026
A lineup of Lenovo devices including a ThinkBook laptop, ThinkPad laptop, Lenovo smartphone, ThinkVision monitor, Lenovo tablet, desktop tower, and a virtual reality headset displayed on a dark background.

Lenovo Showcases Its Newest Consumer-Oriented Laptop Lineup At CES 2026, Featuring Upgraded Yoga, Yoga Slim & Ideapad Models

Jan 7, 2026
A man in a black shiny jacket stands in front of a large circuit board against a background featuring the Chinese flag.

NVIDIA CEO Doesn’t Rule Out ‘Rubin’ for China, Says Newer Chips Will Become Available Once U.S. Export Restrictions Ease

Jan 7, 2026
Samsung Galaxy Book6 Pro laptop partially transparent to show internal components, with the text 'Galaxy Book6 Pro' and 'Engineered for perfection' displayed on the left.

Samsung Supercharges Galaxy Book Series with Intel Core Ultra 300 “Panther Lake”, Featuring Efficient Performance & Long-Lasting Battery Life

Jan 6, 2026
A promotional image shows various 2026 MSI next-gen laptops, including models like the 'Modern 14 S AI⁺,' 'Crosshair 16 Max HX,' 'Raider 16 Max HX,' 'Claw 8 AI⁺ Glacier Blue Edition,' 'Stealth 16 AI⁺,' 'Prestige 14 Flip AI

MSI’s Gaming Laptop Lineup Gets “Supercharged” by Intel’s Panther Lake SoCs; Prestige, Modern, Raider & Stealth Models Get the Upgrade Treatment

Jan 6, 2026
A compact device with the text 'tenstorrent powered by Razer' is connected to a laptop with green backlit keys.

Razer Goes Full “AI Mode” with New & Compact AI Accelerator Device Featuring Tenstorrent’s Wormhole n150 AI Chip

Jan 6, 2026
"I Produce The Lowest Cost Tokens In The World" Says NVIDIA CEO As He Highlights The Full-Stack Approach To AI

NVIDIA Reveals Why the Company Is “Immune” to Memory Shortages — and How The Firm Prepaid Inventory to Keep the AI Boom Running

Jan 6, 2026
A presenter on stage in front of a screen displaying the text 'From Zetta to Yotta Scale Compute 10,000x Increase in AI Compute' and '10+ YottaFLOPS.'

AMD CEO Lisa Su Says the World Will Need “YottaScale” Compute Power Within the Next Five Years; A Whopping 10,000× Increase Over 2022 Levels

Jan 6, 2026
A presentation slide titled 'AMD ROCm for Ryzen CPUs and Radeon GPUs' announces 'ROCm 7.2 Common Release' for Linux and Windows, support for 'AMD Ryzen AI 400 Processors,' and integration with 'ComfyUI' via download from Comfyui.org.

AMD ROCm 7.2.2 Adds Support for Ryzen AI 400 CPUs & Unlocks Faster Local Inference Performance

Jan 5, 2026
An individual wearing a futuristic gauntlet with visible Nvidia logos, positioned beside a large Nvidia chip.

NVIDIA’s ‘Revolutionary’ Rubin AI Chips Enter Full Production Well Ahead of Schedule, Proving Jensen’s Pace Is Unmatched

Jan 5, 2026
A Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Plus chip is depicted on a red circuit board background with circuitry patterns.

Qualcomm Takes Massive Leap With New Snapdragon X2 Plus SoCs – Delivering the World’s Fastest Laptop NPU In 10 & 6 Core Models

Jan 5, 2026
A green memory module and two Samsung K4RAH08 chips are displayed on a yellow surface.

“No One Can Escape Memory Shortages”, Says Samsung’s co-CEO, Claiming that the Fallout Will Also Reach TVs & Home Appliances

Jan 5, 2026
A group of people gathered indoors, with a man in a black t-shirt clapping at the front, surrounded by lanterns and a festive atmosphere.

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang to Host Iconic “Trillion-Dollar” Dinner With Taiwanese Partners This Month, Ahead of the Next AI Infrastructure Era

Jan 4, 2026
TSMC's Key CoWoS Packaging Supplier Drags Ex-General Manager to Court While Denying Any Tech Reached China

TSMC’s U.S. Expansion Crushes the Company’s Chip Margins, Shrinking Them by Nearly Eightfold Due to Higher Labor Costs & Wafer Depreciation

Jan 3, 2026
Shrink-wrapped pallets containing multiple NVIDIA GeForce graphics card boxes outside a building.

NVIDIA’s “Banned” RTX 5090s Mysteriously Surface in China, Indicating the Nation Still Has Ways to Access Compute Power

Jan 3, 2026
HBM3E and HBM4 chips on display in a lighted frame.

“Samsung is Back in the HBM Race”, Says Co-CEO, as the Korean Giant Is Poised to Reclaim Its Lost Dominance with HBM4

Jan 2, 2026
Increased DRAM costs to increase smartphone BoM (Bill of Materials) by up to 25 percent, resulting in lowered shipments

DRAM Contract Prices Are Projected to Rise By a Whopping 50% In This Quarter, As Shortages Now Appear to Be Out of Control

Jan 2, 2026
A person in a red jacket holding a chip on stage and another person in a black leather jacket holding a motherboard with a visible logo.

NVIDIA’s GB200 NVL72 Racks Deliver a Staggering 28× Performance Uplift Over AMD’s MI355X Counterpart, Leading in Intelligence/$

Jan 1, 2026
Silicon wafer inside a semiconductor manufacturing machine.

TSMC Supply Constraints Are Now Forcing Fabless Manufacturers to Look for Alternatives; Samsung Foundry Now a Serious Option

Jan 1, 2026
A person in a leather jacket appears deep in thought next to a large semiconductor chip, with the TSMC logo prominently displayed in the background.

NVIDIA Needs a Supply Chain ‘Miracle’ From TSMC as China’s H200 AI Chip Orders Overwhelm Supply, Triggering a Bottleneck

Dec 31, 2025
Three people are sitting on bleachers wearing matching grey shirts with red details and 'TSMC' lanyards, with empty seats labeled 'FC' and 'VIP' behind them.

TSMC Chip Secrets May Be in Jeopardy After an Investigation Found Sensitive Documents at the Home of a Former Executive Who Has Since Joined Intel

Dec 30, 2025
Close-up of an ASUS Maximus VIII Hero motherboard with G.Skill RGB RAM and a Cooler Master liquid cooler.

Memory Suppliers Are Now ‘Cherry-Picking’ Customers as Report Says Priority Is Being Given to Just Four PC Manufacturers

Dec 30, 2025
Three individuals are presenting semiconductor chips with a large 'CES' overlay on the image.

CES 2026 Preview: Here is How the Show Could Look Like, as the PC Industry Enters the “Memory Pandemic” Era

Dec 29, 2025
TSMC's Key CoWoS Packaging Supplier Drags Ex-General Manager to Court While Denying Any Tech Reached China

TSMC Reportedly Plans to Bring 3nm Production to the U.S. Nearly a Year Ahead of Schedule, to Prevent Rivals From Gaining Ground

Dec 29, 2025
The SK hynix building exterior features a large logo with a stylized butterfly design in front of a metallic facade.

SK hynix Plans to Make a Surprise Move Into U.S. Advanced Packaging, Aiming to Capitalize on the Region’s Urgent Need For It

Dec 29, 2025
A close-up of a Lisuan Tech graphics card with its branding visible on the fan hub and card edge.

China’s Long-Awaited Lisuan G100 GPUs Begin Shipping, Bringing a Domestic NVIDIA/AMD Challenger Closer to Retail Market

Dec 29, 2025

NVIDIA’s Next-Gen Feynman GPUs Could See the Inclusion of Groq’s LPU Units By 2028, Stacked as Separate Dies Similar to AMD’s X3D Approach

Dec 28, 2025
TSMC could surpass Apple in market value by 2030, predicts analyst

Taiwan Hit by One of Its Strongest Earthquakes in Years, Yet TSMC’s Chip Operations Remain Unfazed With 70% of Equipment Operational

Dec 28, 2025
RTX 5080 24 GB

NVIDIA’s RTX 5080 Is Now Being Sold in a “Chunky” 32GB VRAM Configuration in China, Gobbling Up GDDR7 Modules for AI Workloads

Dec 27, 2025
A NVIDIA GeForce RTX graphics card with a large fan and a pink-purple lighting effect.

Finding a High-VRAM GPU Is Getting Much Harder, With a Japanese Retailer Warning That Restocks May Be Off the Table For Now

Dec 27, 2025
A G.SKILL Trident Z RGB RAM module is installed on an ASUS ROG motherboard with a red downwards arrow overlaying the image.

RAM Shortage 2026 Explained: Why AI Is Causing a DDR5 Crisis & When It Ends

Apr 23, 2026
A close-up view of a G.Skill Trident Z5 RAM module installed on a high-end computer motherboard with metallic heatsinks.

PC Makers Are Fighting for Memory Capacity as Reports Warn That Postponing Product Launches Might Be the Only Option Left

Dec 26, 2025
Huawei has developed its own EDA tools to mass produce the Kirin 9020

Huawei Now Looks to Expand AI Chip Sales Beyond China, Creating the ‘Encroaching’ Scenario NVIDIA Has Warned About

Dec 26, 2025
Button