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TSMC Unveils World's First 40-Nanometer Foundry Process

Taiwanese semiconductor manufacturer Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company has just unveiled world's first 40-nanometer manufacturing process node for ultra-high end chip designs. This new manufacturing process is called a "half-node" and is an intermediate service towards the upcoming 32-nanometer manufact...

24 March 2008
22:06 GMT

Elpida Joins Forces With United Microelectronics in Silicon Foundry Partnership

Japan's largest chip manufacturer Elpida has inked a silicon foundry business partnership with United Microelectronics Corp. The two memory manufacturers are looking for new business opportunities on the market in order to diminish their losses on the memory market. According to the business agreement, the two c...

17 March 2008
13:00 GMT

Sun Teams Up With Taiwan-Based TMSC for 45-nanometer Multi-Core Processors

Sun Microsystems has employed Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. to build its upcoming multi-core, 450-nanometer processors. This might be seen as the end of a long partnership with Sun's original foundry, Texas Instruments. The latter decided that would collaborate with other chip designers on its process d...

19 February 2008
06:19 GMT

Chinese Semiconductor Manufacturer Gets License For IBM's 45-Nanometer Tech

IBM have licensed their latest 45-nanometer technology to Chinese foundry provider Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC). The 45-nm bulk CMOS technology will be used by the largest Chinese chipmaker for building the next generation of processors to power mobile devices, graphics and consumer applicat...

27 December 2007
09:46 GMT

The 45-Nanometer Technology Is Already Obsolete

The 45-nanometer process rush seems to have ended right after Intel launched the Penryn series. Foundries have sketched a mass-production plan, but major vendors are already chasing another ghost: the development of high-k dielectrics and metal gates for the 32-nm node. The high-k and metal gates are the major obsta...

17 December 2007
11:10 GMT

Intel and TSMC Go for Advanced High-k Technology

The International Electron Devices Meeting surely was a good place for Intel to boast their newest technological breakthrough. The company have described their 45-nanometer logic technology, the first to integrate in high-volume manufacturing process high-k/metal gate transistors. They were not the only ones however ...

13 December 2007
04:31 GMT




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