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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 |
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Intel and AMD aren't the only ones throwing in the towel after too many years of seeing each other in the court of law. In tune with their seniors, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company and Semiconductor Manufacturing International signed an agreement of their own that seems to put a stop to all of their cu... |
12 November 2009
11:18 GMT |
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We have been extensively covering the production problems that TSMC has encountered with its 40nm manufacturing process, which have directly affected the GPU shipments of AMD's latest generation of Radeon HD 5000-series of graphics cards. As we mentioned in previous articles, the Sunnyvale, California-based chi... |
11 November 2009
03:25 GMT |
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Taiwan's Semiconductor Manufacturing Company could see more competition in the years ahead, as the state of Abu Dhabi is planning to make its debut into the semiconductor production segment, according to a recent news report. The state's plans include the construction of a wafer fab in the region, which is ... |
9 November 2009
08:39 GMT |
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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 |
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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 |
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In an attempt to further expand its market presence and better compete with TSMC, the world's leading semiconductor manufacturing company, Abu Dhabi's ATIC (Advanced Technology Investment Company) has recently announced that it has reached an agreement with Singapore-based Chartered Semiconductor Manufactur... |
7 September 2009
03:09 GMT |
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The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company has been recently making the headlines, mostly due to the low yields of its 40nm manufacturing node, an issue that has affected both NVIDIA and AMD with their future graphics cards. However, the company has announced today that it has become the first foundry to successf... |
24 August 2009
06:37 GMT |
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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 |
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Santa Clara, California-based Intel, the world's leading chipmaker, is said to be planning a contract with foundry giant Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) for the production of the much-anticipated Langwell chipset. This chipset has been designed for the company's Moorestown platform and is ... |
29 July 2009
06:19 GMT |
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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 |
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According to recent reports, Globalfoundries is on track to ramp up production of the 28nm manufacturing process by 2011. In addition, Tom Sonderman, Globalfoundries vice president of manufacturing systems and technology, has confirmed that the company is ready to break ground for this new facility (Fab 2) at the Lut... |
5 June 2009
04:08 GMT |
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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 |
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Sunnyvale, California-based AMD has reportedly increased its order for GPU wafers from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC). According to a recent report, the two manufacturing companies have landed a combined order of 30,000 wafers from the chip maker, which... |
20 March 2009
10:22 GMT |
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While announcing to the world that it has inked a deal with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company for the co-manufacturing of Atom CPUs, Intel also introduced a new Atom Z5xx-series processor. According to the giant chip maker, there are four “unique” new versions of the chip heading our way.Under no... |
3 March 2009
03:00 GMT |
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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 |
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It appears that Taiwan's largest semiconductor manufacturer, TSMC, has decided to ask its employees to take more unpaid days off, in an attempt to reduce its operating costs, as the impact of the ongoing financial downturn continues to be strongly felt. Such precautionary methods were expected to be taken after... |
4 December 2008
10:52 GMT |
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The current economic turmoil has affected IT industry players and led to declining semiconductor sales, which determined the leading global foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) to lower the forecast for the fourth quarter of the year. The company is reported to have lowered the prevision regardin... |
2 December 2008
05:19 GMT |
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is reported to enhance even more its development of micro-electro mechanical systems (MEMS) business, as it is installing new equipment, as planned before, reports Digitimes, citing sources at the equipment and material suppliers for the foundry. The current glo... |
1 December 2008
03:53 GMT |
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It appears that the effects of the low global economy have finally been felt by the world's two leading providers of foundry manufacturing services, namely the Taiwanese Semiconductor Manufacturing Company and United Microelectronics Corporation. The two have recently been reported to be planning some serious co... |
28 November 2008
11:16 GMT |
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is planning to offer to its customers the 22nm technology by 2011, while the 15nm fabrication process is said to go online sometime in 2013. The company also plans to ramp up 32nm production in 2009, according to its latest roadmap. However, these new technologies are... |
7 November 2008
07:09 GMT |
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is said to first install a multiple-electron-beam direct write (MEBDW) lithography system in 2009, which would help it in the development of 20nm and more advanced process nodes, as Digitimes reports citing Burn Lin, senior director of micropatterning division at TSMC... |
6 November 2008
04:46 GMT |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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