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40nm GPU Nightmare May Repeat for 28nm

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

SiliconBlue Starts Sampling 40nm FPGAs for Smartphone and Tablets

SiliconBlue Technologies has just announced that it has begun sampling its next generation of FPGAs (field programmable gate arrays) that are built using TSMC's 40nm fabrication processors and are destined to be used inside smartphone and tablet devices. The iCE40 family of mobile FPGAs, codenamed "Los Angele...

12 July 2011
05:24 GMT

Marvell Delivers Low Power 10 Gigabit Ethernet Controllers

Marvell has just announced that is has become the first hardware vendor to deliver production quality 10 Gigabit Ethernet controller chips built using the 40nm process technology. The ICs were designed to deliver low power consumption in high-density applications.The product family is comprised out of two solutions, ...

11 May 2011
10:58 GMT

New TSMC Facility May Fabricate 18-Inch Wafers

As a leading supplier of semiconductors, TSMC has always found the need to expand, but it must also be careful what kind of facilities it builds if it is to stay in business, which is why it has not yet decided on what to do with its next fab.For those end-users that do not know, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing C...

20 December 2010
10:58 GMT

TSMC Builds 300mm Wafer Plant in Taiwan

It seems that all the yield issues and the generally insufficient chip supply have finally begun to demand more daring steps on the part of foundries. While TSMC and Globalfoundries have already scrapped their own share of manufacturing processes, deciding to go straight to 22nm, 28nm or 20nm, they, or TSMC at least,...

29 April 2010
07:05 GMT

Elpida Starts Sampling 4Gb 40nm DDR3 Chips

Now that consumer central processing units have reached six-core designs and there are enough DirectX 11-capable graphics cards to go around, the next logical step is for RAM to undergo a similar evolution. This evolution took a step forward when Samsung started mass-producing its 4Gb DDR3 chips, based on the 40nm ma...

22 April 2010
08:57 GMT

TSMC's Q1 2010 Revenues Exceed Forecasts

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company is, most likely, one of the companies that have aroused the most conflicting feelings in graphics-card makers and consumers over the past year. This is mostly owed to the fact that, although it has some of the most advanced manufacturing process technologies and supplies chi...

10 April 2010
05:52 GMT

Samsung's 32GB DRAM Modules Start Sampling

Technology usually advances at a steady pace, with the graphics, memory, storage and connectivity standards rising bit by bit. However, on certain occasions, one company or another comes forth with a new invention or a breakthrough that can change the way a certain field of expertise is approached. Samsung could be s...

29 March 2010
04:29 GMT

TSMC Starts Hiring, Offers 2,400 Permanent Jobs

During 2009 and 2008, whatever strikes and walkouts took place were staged as a consequence of IT companies' decision to cut thousands of jobs, due to difficult economic conditions. Now, however, it seems that the industry is recovering well enough for companies to start rebuilding their workforce. Among the com...

13 March 2010
04:37 GMT

GPU Shortage to Persist Until May

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company has definitely not been at its highest over the past months, having been constantly faced with the inability to keep up with demand for 40nm-based products. Recently, rumors started indicating that the final issues with the 40nm manufacturing process should be resolved soon,...

27 February 2010
05:48 GMT

TSMC to Double 40nm Production by Year's End

While the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company has gotten over the yield issues related to its 40nm manufacturing process, it seems that not all the problems are over. After a recent rumor suggested that TSMC would only get over the last of its difficulties by the middle of the year, EETimes has now revealed th...

26 February 2010
06:13 GMT

TSMC 40nm Issues End Before NVIDIA Ramps Up Fermi

TSMC has been having problems with its 40nm manufacturing process for quite a long time and while it has supposedly already gotten over most of the big issues, the 40nm is still not free of problems. In fact, these yield issues are part of the reason why NVIDIA did not launch Fermi sooner and also the main factor beh...

25 February 2010
09:10 GMT

Samsung's 40nm 4Gb DDR3 Enters Mass-Production

Samsung's 40nm Green DDR3 is especially designed to enhance power efficiency for servers looking to comply with or surpass the Energy Start specifications. As the first to bring 4Gb DDR3 devices based on the 40nm process technology, Samsung seeks to enable significant power savings in data centers, high-end note...

24 February 2010
02:40 GMT

TSMC Gets Over 40nm Problems

Even though AMD has been selling DirectX 11-capable 40nm-based graphics cards for months, the general problems with those cards were low inventories. Even though Advanced Micro Devices did its best to cope with the demand for new GPUs, the company's efforts were largely impacted by the low yields of 40nm chips f...

20 January 2010
05:22 GMT

Elpida's 2Gb DDR3 SDRAM Enters Mass Production

Elpida follows in Hynix's footsteps and reveals a development in no direct way related to the launch of Intel's Pineview processors. Even more coincidentally, this piece of news is, like that from Hynix, also about the developments concerning a certain memory product. Elpida has announced the entrance of it...

22 December 2009
06:01 GMT

TSMC 40nm Yields Only at 50%, NVIDIA and ATI Shortage Lasts Through Q1 2010

For quite a few months now, various manufacturing-related issues have been reported concerning TSMC's total yields of the 40nm process. Back in late October, the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company stated that the issues related to the 40nm process manufacture would be resolved by the end of December. Now...

4 December 2009
03:56 GMT

AMD Confirms HD5xxx-Series GPU Shortage

Even before Advanced Micro Devices launched its much-anticipated family of Radeon HD 5xxx series, there were reports that the Sunnyvale, California-based chip maker was dealing with production issues on the TSMC's 40nm manufacturing process. The company never really confirmed these reports, ultimately claiming ...

26 November 2009
05:26 GMT

Mysterious NVIDIA GeForce Card Could Be Fermi-Based

Today is marked by the official debut of AMD's much-anticipated Radeon HD 5970, a dual-GPU graphics card that has been designed to become the world's fastest card on the market. Featuring impressive specifications, this card is likely to outperform NVIDIA's current offering, putting AMD in the first p...

18 November 2009
04:38 GMT

AMD GPU Shortage Said to Affect PC Vendors' Shipments

Sunnyvale, California-based Advanced Micro Devices is said to be facing problems with supplying its latest Radeon graphics processing units to several PC vendors, according to sources in the know as regards the matter. Said supplying issues are reportedly affecting PC vendors that are consequently forced to delay the...

5 November 2009
06:34 GMT

NVIDIA and AMD to Be Affected by TSMC's 40nm Yield Problems

The world's two leading vendors of graphics processing units, NVIDIA and AMD, are expected to be faced with GPU shipment delays due to new 40nm yield issues that have recently been reported by the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC). Although these issues are expected to be solved within the quarte...

30 October 2009
09:39 GMT

NVIDIA GT300 Architecture Detailed

For a good while now, people have been speculating on the bits and pieces of NVIDIA's next-generation GPU architecture, the much-anticipated GT300, which the company has been consistently keeping under wraps. Rumored to be scheduled for release sometime by the end of this year, or early next year, the new GT300 ...

29 September 2009
04:47 GMT

AMD Showcases Radeon HD 5870 X2 in All Its Beauty

As you have probably already found out, Sunnyvale, California-based Advanced Micro Devices has decided to give something to all computer enthusiasts out there looking to boost their system's graphics performance. The chip maker has officially announced this week its new Radeon HD 58xx series of desktop graphics ...

25 September 2009
06:04 GMT

Samsung 'Green Memory' Campaign Is About 40nm 2Gb DDR3

Samsung Electronics, one of the world's leading vendors of consumer electronics and computer components, has recently announced the debut of a new marketing campaign that is intended to promote its 40nm-based 2Gb DDR3 chips. The campaign, which has been titled “Green Memory,” is focused on providing ...

11 September 2009
06:56 GMT

40nm GeForce 210 Available in October, Sources Claim

Early last month, Santa Clara, California-based NVIDIA announced an update of its GeForce graphics card lineup with the introduction of the much-anticipated GeForce G210 and GT 220, both of which were designed using the company's energy-efficient 40nm process technology. According to updated details available on...

20 August 2009
09:20 GMT

TSMC Claims 40nm Yields Improved to 60 Percent

The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the world's largest contract chipmaker, has recently declared that it has been seeing improved yields for its 40nm manufacturing node, which are now considerably higher than earlier this year. According to the company's chairman and CEO, Morris Chang, t...

31 July 2009
10:36 GMT

AMD 40nm Next-Generation Radeons Could Be Launched in Q4

The race to the next-generation 40nm-based graphics processing unit continues to be one of the main issues concerning speculators in the industry. Both NVIDIA and ATI, the world's leading vendors of GPUs, have so far announced their first desktop and mobile solutions designed using said manufacturing process, bu...

21 July 2009
03:44 GMT

Samsung Starts Mass Production of 40nm 2Gb DDR3

Samsung, one of the world's leading innovators in advanced memory technology, has just announced that it has successfully started the mass production of the industry's first two gigabit (Gb) DDR3 devices, designed using the efficient 40nm class process technology. With the announcement, the company further ...

21 July 2009
03:03 GMT

NVIDIA Officially Details GeForce G210 and GT 220 Graphics Cards

The Santa Clara, California-based NVIDIA has recently updated its GeForce offering with the introduction of two new low-end graphics cards, the GeForce G210 and GT 220. The chip maker's new solutions are based on the previously rumored GT218 and GT215 chips, both of which will provide NVIDIA fans with support fo...

9 July 2009
03:01 GMT

NVIDIA Preps 40nm Desktop GPUs for October Release

Earlier this month, Santa Clara, California-based NVIDIA debuted its first 40nm graphics processing units, consequently refreshing its line of mobile GPUs with five new models, the GTS 260M, GTS 250M, GT 240M, GT230M and G210M. However, the company is yet to unveil its first desktop GPUs to take advantage of the new ...

30 June 2009
04:44 GMT

NVIDIA's Latest G200M GPUs Are 40nm, Have DirectX 10.1 Support

Santa Clara, California-based NVIDIA continues to expand its line of notebook graphics chips with the introduction of a series of 5 new GPUs, designed to take advantage of the company's latest GT200 architecture. The innovation behind the new graphics processing units is that NVIDIA has now reached the 40nm manu...

15 June 2009
11:14 GMT

TSMC to Invest in R&D European Base at IMEC

The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the world's largest dedicated semiconductor foundry, has just announced its plans to combat the effects of the global slow economy, claiming that it will invest a significant amount of resources in the creation of a new R&D team that will be based at IMEC. T...

4 June 2009
07:03 GMT

NVIDIA Preps Three 40nm Chips This Year

Sunnyvale, California-based graphics chip maker NVIDIA is expected to debut its first graphics processing units, featuring the next-generation 40nm manufacturing process. The exact details regarding the company's foray into the 40nm process technology are yet to emerge, but according to some recently made commen...

11 May 2009
08:53 GMT

Radeon HD 4770 Benchmarked, Listed and Available

Earlier today, AMD officially announced its latest addition to the Radeon HD 4000-series lineup, consequently introducing the world's first 40nm desktop graphics card. Dubbed, Radeon HD 4770, the new solution has been designed to provide computer users with a choice for an affordable graphics accelerator that ca...

28 April 2009
09:11 GMT

AMD First to 40nm, Launches the Radeon HD 4770

Sunnyvale, California-based Advanced Micro Devices has announced today the expansion of its Radeon line of graphics cards with the introduction of the highly anticipated Radeon HD 4770. Designed for the entry-level and mainstream market, the chip maker's new solution takes advantage of the next-generation 40nm m...

28 April 2009
07:01 GMT

AMD Radeon HD 4770 Close to Official Debut

According to previous rumors, Sunnyvale, California-based Advanced Micro Devices is expected to announce a new Radeon graphics card that will become the world's first card to take advantage of the company's next-generation 40nm graphics processing unit. Codenamed RV740, the company's upcoming graphics ...

27 April 2009
04:40 GMT

Radeon HD 4770 Benchmarked, Due Out on April 28

Sunnyvale, California-based Advanced Micro Devices is expected to update its line of Radeon graphics cards with the introduction of a new 40nm-based model dubbed Radeon HD 4770. This will be the chip maker's first 40nm product and also the world's first graphics card to adopt this next-generation manufactur...

23 April 2009
08:34 GMT

AMD Radeon 4770 40nm GPU – Specifications, Price Leaked

After much anticipation, it appears that the specifications of the world's first 40nm-based desktop graphics card have finally surfaced on the Internet. According to the latest details, the first card to be equipped with the next-generation 40nm Radeon GPU will become available as part of the new Radeon HD 4700 ...

1 April 2009
04:30 GMT

A Quick Look at the New ATI Mobility Radeon HD 40nm Graphics Cards

We reported a few days ago that Advanced Micro Devices had unleashed into the wild a couple of next-generation ATI Mobility Radeon HD cards that have been manufactured under the 40-nanometer process technology. The new models mark two important steps for the giant manufacturer. First of all, the chip maker is the fir...

5 March 2009
10:28 GMT

CeBIT 2009: AMD Announces World's First 40nm GPU

Advanced Micro Devices announced today the first graphics processors in the world to be manufactured under the 40-nanometer process technology, the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4860 and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4830. The new graphics cards are able to provide support for the latest Microsoft DirectX 10.1 games, as well as a ...

3 March 2009
02:19 GMT

AMD's 40nm-Based Radeon HD 4750 Previewed

After much anticipation, it appears that the specifications and performance results of AMD's first 40nm-based graphics card have finally been made public. As it turns out, the first Radeon graphics card to sport a 40nm manufacturing process will come out sometime in April and will be part of ATI's current H...

26 February 2009
07:02 GMT

TSMC Sees Weak Demand for 40nm Chips

Despite the fact that both AMD and NVIDIA are expected to upgrade their graphics cards to the next-generation 40nm manufacturing technology, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is reported to be seeing weaker demand for its 40nm node. Apparently, NVIDIA and AMD have decided to take some precautions with...

18 February 2009
05:57 GMT

Hynix Announces 40nm 1Gb DDR3 DRAM

With the two leading processor makers, Intel and AMD, now both ready to provide support for the next generation of DDR memory, DDR3 memory technology keeps improving, enabling higher levels of performance and better power consumption features. Just recently, Hynix Semiconductor announced that it had developed a 1GB (...

9 February 2009
03:41 GMT

Samsung Touts First Validated 40nm DRAM

Samsung, a global leader in advanced memory technology, has recently announced that it has developed and validated the first DRAM chip and module, developed using a 40nm process technology. With the announcement, Samsung has also said that the new 1GB DDR2 module and its corresponding 1GB 800Mbps DDR2 SODIMM have bot...

4 February 2009
04:01 GMT

NVIDIA GT218 Specs Leaked

Following reports regarding an upcoming Radeon graphics card, the dual-GPU HD 5870X2, details on a future NVIDIA GeFore card have also been leaked on the Internet. However, this time around we are talking about a product that is on the other side of the performance bar, as this GeForce card will be targeted at the en...

4 February 2009
03:30 GMT

NVIDIA to Debut 40nm GeForce Cards in Q2 2009

While end-users are still to see the full power of NVIDIA's upcoming GeForce GTX295 and GTX 285, rumors of new 40nm-based GeForce graphics cards have already made their way on the Internet. The Santa Clara, California-based chip maker is now expected to debut its first 40nm-based graphics cards as early as the s...

28 December 2008
02:44 GMT

ATI Might Get DirectX11 First, NVIDIA Late on 40nm

As soon as Windows 7 comes to the market, the graphics cards will have to go hand in hand with DirectX11, which means that both ATI and NVIDIA will have to make cards compatible with the new standard. Considering the technological advancements each company has announced so far, it seems that the first to get there mi...

23 December 2008
03:22 GMT

AMD Taped Out 40nm RV740 with GDDR5

At a time when NVIDIA is working on its yet unannounced 55nm graphics card, which is supposed to take the performance crown away from ATI's Radeon HD 4870X2 board, AMD's graphics division is maintaining its focus on the 40nm technology process. We reported a few days ago that the company had taped out the f...

18 December 2008
04:53 GMT

ATI Already on 40nm, Lets Partners Make Own RV770 Designs

The latest news on the web points to the fact that ATI, AMD's Graphics Division, managed to develop the first working silicon of 40nm next generation chips, and that the result seems to be rather satisfying for the company. If true, then ATI managed to make a step ahead of NVIDIA, which is a little behind with t...

12 December 2008
10:51 GMT

NVIDIA to Prep Dual Chip and 40nm Cards

It seems that NVIDIA is working on a dual chip solution right now, although it’s trying to keep it secret. It is not sure what chip the green company will use to power the card, yet there are some voices stating that it may be a GT200 55nm. The same rumors say that the dual chip solution may be due for a Decemb...

30 October 2008
05:50 GMT

NVIDIA Working on GeForce Comeback

Although NVIDIA has lost the competitive edge over AMD's graphics subsidiary, ATI, the green company is certainly not going to sit back with arms crossed, and watch how its competitor gains more market share. It is generally believed that NVIDIA will roll out a new graphics solution by the end of the year, which...

9 September 2008
05:22 GMT


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