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TSMC Will Move to 28nm Process in Early 2010

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd. (TSMC), the world's largest contract chip maker, announced on Tuesday that it is ready to start using advanced 28-nanometer technology at the beginning of 2010 for the production of CPUs, graphics processors and gadget chips. TSMC is mainly competing against United Micr...

1 October 2008
03:06 GMT

TSMC in Line or Better with 2Q

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company has recently seen itself in the news, putting its business in a rather bad light, as far as stock shares are concerned. But the company hasn't remained arms crossed and clarified that its business was doing well. Lora Ho, one of the company's spokespersons and chie...

4 July 2008
06:15 GMT

AMD to Outsource Fusion Chip Production to TSMC

Advanced Micro Devices is reportedly in talks with Taiwanese semiconductor TMSC regarding the fabrication of AMD's upcoming Fusion processor. The manufacturer has been producing its graphics processors at its foundry partners for some time now and it seems that it will take the same approach with its upcoming CP...

13 May 2008
10:35 GMT

Samsung, TSMC and Intel Pitch at Next-Gen Silicon Wafers

Semiconductor specialist Samsung has just announced that it entered a partnership with its arch-rivals Intel and TSMC in order to develop next-generation silicon wafers and to improve the production process. Since the semiconductor market is working on a commodity basis (high sales with little premiums over the produ...

6 May 2008
05:50 GMT

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

AMD Gears Up to Transfer Production, Cut Down Costs

World's second largest manufacturer of x86 processors has had a rough year, with failed launches and product delays all along its roadmap. Lack of sales, accumulated with loss of profit, has pushed the company on the edge of bankruptcy. The company needs to rethink its policy in order to survive and deliver the ...

25 February 2008
09:18 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

The 12-inch Silicon Wafers Expansion

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC for short) and United Microelectronics Corporation (better known as UMC) are not in a great hurry to upgrade most of their production lines to the 12 inch silicon wafers because of a poor outlook concerning the demand for such materials during the second half of the ye...

7 August 2007
05:16 GMT

TSMC Works for AMD and Nvidia

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (better known as TSMC to the world) is a company that contracts the manufacturing of different computer hardware parts from their original designers that have not enough production facilities. This works great for both parties involved, as the original manufacturers can brin...

6 August 2007
08:05 GMT

TSMC May Work with AMD

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC for short) is one of the largest chip makers that have no product of their own. They work on a contract, manufacturing computer chips or other parts of hardware for different brands. It's almost like a hardware outsourcing process. TSMC appears to have started work on...

27 July 2007
06:26 GMT

AMD Denies Selling its Fabs

Responding to various comments that appeared on several websites AMD said that it will not sell off its chip-producing factories although their financial situation is far from being impressive. AMD's market share has plummeted since the mass release of Core 2 CPUs and things are getting worse every day. R600 chi...

22 June 2007
08:31 GMT

AMD Could Stop Producing CPUs

According to a new report released by Citigroup, AMD could stop producing CPUs in its own fabs and as a result they might enter what can be called the "fabless" era. This is not a new case since one of the biggest GPU manufacturers, Nvidia has no manufacturing capabilities and relies on groups such as TSMC and UMC in...

20 June 2007
02:58 GMT

Get Ready for 45nm Products

One of the biggest, if not the biggest semiconductor manufacturing facility in Taiwan is the TSMC- they are the suppliers for an entire industry and, basically, millions of people use products that they made, and probably don't even realize it. As one of their main concerns is to keep up with the industry's...

10 April 2007
10:15 GMT

TSMC Says 55nm, Synopsys Says 45nm

As Intel is preparing the launch of its new line of processors based on the 45nm manufacturing process, manufacturers are putting their game face on, because they are going to need it. In Intel's roadmap, they have announced the processors that are going to be built on the 45nm process node, with a later switch ...

28 March 2007
04:35 GMT

TSMC Releases 65nm eDRAM Chips

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is proud to announce the first functional 65nm embedded DRAM products. TSMC's 65nm embedded DRAM process delivers a higher bandwidth as well as lower power consumption in a nearly 50% smaller cell and macro size than previous high density memory modules.The highe...

9 March 2007
09:38 GMT




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