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Moore's Law says that the number of transistors that can be placed on an integrated circuit, without cost drawbacks, doubles about every two years.
That means that manufacturing process technologies have to be planned well in advance, and this is precisely what United Microelectronics Corp. is doing.
Much lik... |
25 May 2012
03:14 GMT |
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NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 680 has become famous not just for its performance, but for how it manages to be powerful while also boasting a pretty low power draw and price.
NVIDIA decided it should speak, or write, about this matter a bit, so it took to its blog to explain some things.
Long story short, the Santa Cl... |
27 April 2012
04:12 GMT |
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TSMC’s main competitor, the Taiwanese compatriot company United Microelectronics Corporation, is progressing smoothly with the roll-out of the 28 nm technology. This may not be such good news for TSMC, as they’ve already lost consistent orders due to capacity constraints we've already reported about... |
26 April 2012
09:25 GMT |
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Although the Taiwanese company is in the middle of a serious 28nm manufacturing capacity expansion, Morris Chang, chairman and chief executive of TSMC, gave a rather somber outlook for the overall semiconductor industry. He said that the expected growth would range between 2% and 3%. TSMC is investing heavily in cap... |
25 April 2012
08:52 GMT |
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At this point, we've written about the supposed state of TSMC's 28nm process so many times that we may as well see what those directly affected think of the matter.
Truth be told, we've already done this, as far as NVIDIA is concerned anyway, hence the general impression that TSMC is not doing as wel... |
20 April 2012
04:31 GMT |
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Despite repeated claims to the contrary, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company has been stated (again) to be having trouble coping with 28nm chip orders.
That is to say, it cannot produce enough 28nm-based graphics processing units (GPUs) and system-on-chip devices.
That means that Advanced Micro Devices (AMD... |
17 April 2012
13:51 GMT |
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It looks like finances are doing bad things to the IT industry again, according to a new rumor that finally sets the record more or less straight in regard to whether or not TSMC is having trouble with its 28nm manufacturing process.
One would think that there would be more truth to all the statements from NVIDIA, ... |
6 April 2012
07:39 GMT |
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It looks like there will soon be a new supplier of processors based on the 28nm manufacturing process, adding to the list made up of Intel, TSMC, UMC, IBM and Globalfoundries.
To give people some perspective, 28nm is among the most advanced manufacturing technologies for semiconductors used today.
Among other thi... |
23 March 2012
17:21 GMT |
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TSMC doesn't seem to have much trouble with the 28nm process technology but, going by what a recent rumor has been saying, its manufacturing ability still seems to be sorely tested.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company doesn't have enough 28nm chips to go around, according to Digitimes.
This isn&#... |
20 March 2012
05:01 GMT |
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By the end of this month, Nvidia plans to update its product portfolio with the company’s first 28nm graphics card based on the Kepler architecture, the GeForce GTX 680, which sources seem to imply will feature a new dynamic overclocking technology. German website Heise.de learned about this new feature from s... |
8 March 2012
05:40 GMT |
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As the release of NVIDIA's fabled 28nm-based video card approaches, a leak has exposed what the product's PCB looks like. We now know, with a reasonably low degree of doubt, that NVIDIA's first Kepler video board will be released on March 23. What we have in the photo above is the printed circuit b... |
3 March 2012
04:26 GMT |
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The hard disk drive market has some life in it still, as LSI is all too eager to prove through its LSI TrueStore system-on-chip devices (SoCs). Lsi's TrueStore SoCs are the industry's first HDD SoCs to be constructed using the 28nm manufacturing process technology. According to the company, they not onl... |
29 February 2012
09:39 GMT |
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NVIDIA should be able to launch its next-generation card line in April, which means that bits and pieces of info on it will only leak to the net faster.
It is thermal design power that has managed to raise some questions most recently, due to the power distribution diagram.
Normally, a reference high-end board sh... |
27 February 2012
02:35 GMT |
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NVIDIA is not going through the best of times, apparently being faced with the same chip supply problems as in 2009-2010, when TSMC's 40nm node turned out to be quite frustrating not just for it, but for AMD as well.
NVIDIA, and probably Advanced Micro Devices too, don't seem to be getting any sort of bre... |
17 February 2012
03:11 GMT |
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After weeks of rumors and leaks, and Verdetrol pills, Advanced Micro Devices has finally reached the point where it is ready to formally release its latest graphics card from the Radeon HD 7000 series. The new adapter bears the name of Radeon HD 7770 and is aimed at gamers that don't necessarily have a fortune... |
15 February 2012
02:29 GMT |
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One of the greatest fears in regards to the graphics card market was that TSMC's 28nm manufacturing process would go through the same problems as the 40nm node, but this will not happen after all.
There doesn't seem to be any problem with the 28nm technology at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company. ... |
20 January 2012
04:35 GMT |
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So far, Nvidia hasn’t published any official details regarding the specs of its next-generation 28nm Kepler graphics cores, but this hasn’t stopped the rumor mill from spreading all sort of info about these GPUs.The latest such report comes from Expreview, which has found out from some unnamed sources tha... |
16 January 2012
20:01 GMT |
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Either AMD is constantly reconsidering its product release plans for the Radeon HD 7950 or the rumor mill has been working overtime.Not long ago, there was a report saying that AMD's second Tahiti card would only launch in February, after the original launch day was missed.Now, Digitimes says that is no longer t... |
16 January 2012
07:36 GMT |
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Quite a lot of rumors about AMD’s mobile Radeon HD 7000M-series GPUs spread over the Web in these last couple of weeks, so during the CES fair, the chip maker took its time to talk with some members of the press about its mobile strategy for 2012.As many of the reports to make their appearance over these last f... |
16 January 2012
03:05 GMT |
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With AMD’s release of the 28nm Radeon HD 7970 at the end of last year, everyone’s attention has now turned towards the green camp, but Nvidia’s Kepler still seems to have a long way to go before it arrives, Jen Hsun Huang, the company’s CEO, advising us to be patient about it.Reportedly, at so... |
12 January 2012
15:01 GMT |
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After AMD’s recent release of its Radeon HD 7970 GPU, Nvidia is now also said to have plans to introduce a series of 28nm GPUs of their own, dubbed the GK106 and GK107, which according to some sources should arrive by the end of this month.Unlike AMD’s Tahiti XT graphics core, the two GPUs that CPU-World ... |
7 January 2012
10:51 GMT |
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GlobalFoundries has today announced that the company has reached an important milestone as it managed to develop a 28nm dual-core Cortex A9 test chip that is built using the company’s 28nm HPP (High Performance Plus) process.The test chip demoed by the foundry is running at 2.5GHz based on the wafers produced a... |
15 December 2011
03:12 GMT |
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Rumors regarding the next generation of 28nm graphics cards from AMD and Nvidia continue to arrive at a frantic pace and the latest to emerge cover Nvidia’s upcoming GK104 core that is presumably expected to arrive in Q1 2012.The GPU, which will be built using TSMC’s 28nm process technology, has fallen un... |
13 December 2011
19:31 GMT |
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Even though AMD will most certainly be the first graphics card maker to release a 28nm GPU, Nvidia hasn’t abandoned the fight and has recently disclosed that Kepler is on track and that they have already entered into the possession of the first 28nm chip samples.“We are on track with our Kepler roadmap. W... |
13 December 2011
18:31 GMT |
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The Kal-El+ name popped up here and there for a couple of times in these past few months, but until recently nobody outside of Nvidia knew what this SoC is all about.The mystery however seems to be unraveled now thanks to the VR-Zone website, which recently published a report regarding the state of Nvidia’s Pro... |
12 December 2011
20:41 GMT |
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Though some of it has been said before, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) made an announcement about what it plans to do in 2012 and 2013.
As concerns linger about what may or may not happen with TSMC's chip production, the company decided to issue a new press release.
In it, the foundry make... |
9 December 2011
04:09 GMT |
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The first AMD Radeon HD 7000M series of mobile graphics may be just a rebrand of the 6000 series, but stronger, desktop boards are in the pipeline, ones that definitely still have everything it takes to go down to business, even serious business if a certain photo is to be taken into account.
It was on the Beyond3D... |
9 December 2011
02:48 GMT |
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Leaks and rumors about what NVIDIA has in store have not been absent, but one has finally arisen that provides the exact plans of the company in regards to the 28nm manufacturing process. 28nm is the technology that both Advanced Micro Devices and NVIDIA rely on for their new series of graphics processing units (GP... |
26 November 2011
03:55 GMT |
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Less than a month has passed since TSMC started mass production of chips based on the 28nm process node and sources near the Taiwanese foundry now claim that the demand for this technology continues to heat up, despite a general slowdown in the semiconductor industry.TSMC is actually expecting its 28nm processes to a... |
25 November 2011
04:52 GMT |
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We all knew for quite some time now that the beginning of 2012 will mark the introduction of a series of new mobile graphics cores from Nvidia that take the 600M-series designation, but now additional details about the specs of these GPUs made their way to the Web.Nvidia's GeForce 600M notebook graphics card ran... |
21 November 2011
18:31 GMT |
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A new slide detailing AMD's upcoming entry-level Radeon HD 7000-series graphics processors made its way to the Web, revealing that these are nothing more than a die shrink of the current Turks and Caicos cores.The slide appeared on the Chinese Chiphell forum and describes AMD's dual-GPU support for the com... |
14 November 2011
19:01 GMT |
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After the release of the Radeon HD 7900 series cards in the first part of 2012, some even say in January, AMD will continue to expand its graphics processor lineup and it now seems like March will mark the arrival of the dual-GPU Radeon HD 7990.The card will be based on the same Tahiti core as that used for the Radeo... |
11 November 2011
16:41 GMT |
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Pico Computing, a company specialized in designing high-performance FPGA platforms, has recently announced the development of the M-505 module, the first board to be released with the new Xilinx Kintex-7 FPGA, the world’s first shipping 28nm programmable logic device.The M-505 has been designed to be used in co... |
8 November 2011
11:23 GMT |
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Despite how many times TSMC and Globalfoundries come forward to assure everyone that they don't expect problems with the 28nm technology, rumors and reports are emerging about it anyway. In fact, the latest such report says that yield issues and defect densities are already being run into. This doesn't ... |
5 November 2011
17:31 GMT |
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While AMD has recently said that it will begin shipping its first 28nm Radeon HD 7000-series GPUs by the end of this year, it seems like the company won't be able to deliver such chips in mass quantities until 2012.The Fudzilla report claims that the most important hurdle AMD's next-generation graphics core... |
4 November 2011
17:01 GMT |
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Since TSMC has begun to manufacture 28nm chips, people interested in what future GPUs will accomplish might be interested in learning of the most recent report regarding the 28HP.
28HP is the first process that TSMC will make with the High-k Metal Gate (HKMG) technology, instead of the silicon oxynitride (SiON) tha... |
4 November 2011
11:32 GMT |
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Despite foundries enthusiasm about moving to the 28nm fabrication node, most of them have problems with the introduction of the 32-nm/28-nm high-K metal gate (HKMG) CMOS technology, believe key industry execs."[Making] bulk silicon HKMG at 28-nm is hard. All foundries are having yield issues and defect density issues... |
3 November 2011
10:59 GMT |
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TSMC announced just earlier today that the company has started volume production of chips based on its advanced 28nm fabrication technology with the first production wafers already being shipped to its customers.TSMC's 28nm node includes four manufacturing technologies: 28nm High Performance (28HP), 28nm High Pe... |
24 October 2011
07:11 GMT |
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AMD is making the news for something somewhat less unfortunate now, as rumors appear about the likelihood that some new graphics processing units will show up before this year's end.
Recent rumors involving Advanced Micro Devices say that December 6 or December 9 is when a new GPUs is expected to show up.
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15 October 2011
04:48 GMT |
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At the AMD Fusion 11 Taipei conference that took place at the beginning of this month, AMD has disclosed additional details about its next-generation Radeon HD 7000 series graphics cards, including the fact that high-end solutions will come with a new liquid chamber cooling solution.AMD had on display such a cooler d... |
12 October 2011
15:51 GMT |
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eSilicon Corporation together with MIPS Technologies have just announced that the two companies have taped out a high-performance, three-way microprocessor cluster built using Globalfoundries low-power 28nm-SLP process technology.According to the press release sent out by the two partners, wafers are currently runnin... |
11 October 2011
07:11 GMT |
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UMC and ARM announced that their existing collaboration has evolved into a long-term contract which will combine the former's 28nm process technology with the latter's intellectual property.
The 28nm process is a fairly recent milestone, but it is still one that technology companies want to leverage as ... |
6 October 2011
05:54 GMT |
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About a month ago, during IDF 2011, AMD demonstrated a working 28nm graphics core from the Radeon HD 7000 series, and recently the Sunnyvale-based chip maker showed off this GPU yet again in order to put to rest all the rumors suggesting that Southern Islands won't come out until 2012.
The demo was apparentl... |
6 October 2011
02:35 GMT |
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Users waiting for AMD and Nvidia to release their next-generation graphics cards will have about six more months to wait until the replacements of the current Radeon HD 6900 and GeForce GTX 580 will arrive, states a report that recently hit the Web.The information was provided by Taiwanese graphics card makers who to... |
1 October 2011
10:11 GMT |
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Oracle just announced the company will speed up the development of its next-generation SPARC T5 processor, which is expected to deliver higher performance thanks to the move to the 28nm process technology.Oracle has published its SPARC server processor roadmap in August of last year, and vowed to deliver a SPARC T-se... |
29 September 2011
06:11 GMT |
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The transition to the 28nm fabrication process seems to take Nvidia longer than expected since the latest rumors to arrive suggest the Santa Clara graphics chips maker won't start the production of the first GPU based on this advanced node until December of 2011.The first 28 graphics chips to enter mass producti... |
28 September 2011
16:11 GMT |
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Expected to arrive in the first quarter of 2012, AMD's Wichita accelerated processing units for netbooks, low-cost notebooks and other low-power devices seem now to have been delayed as the chip maker is having trouble finding a foundry ready to mass produce its 28nm APUs.
This information was provided by a s... |
20 September 2011
02:39 GMT |
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AMD seems to be making great progress with its upcoming Radeon HD 7000 series of graphics cards as the company has recently showcased a system powered by a next-generation Southern Islands GPU, to demonstrate that is on-track to deliver its first 28nm graphics chips by the end of this year.
The system presented du... |
14 September 2011
02:58 GMT |
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TSMC may have seen its fair share of hurdles, but it looks like, at least right now, it isn't doing so badly for itself, provided a recent rumor about its finances going upward isn't inaccurate or plain out false.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has not exactly been at the center of go... |
12 September 2011
08:23 GMT |
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TSMC has reportedly increased the prices of wafers manufactured using the 28nm fabrication process, a decision which could increase the production costs of next-generation GPUs developed by AMD and Nvidia as both companies rely on the advanced 28nm node for their chips.According to unnamed sources cited by Charlie De... |
9 September 2011
14:51 GMT |
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