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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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The troubles faced by the global economy in the last years seem to have caused more than a few problems for TSMC as the foundry’s Q4 financial results show that its revenue has dropped 4.9 percent year over year.The Taiwanese company has revealed that it has finished the fourth quarter of last year with a net p... |
18 January 2012
09:27 GMT |
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A new report from industry publication DigiTimes in Taiwan seems to indicate that multiple part manufacturers in Asia are rushing to win orders from Apple for the company’s rumored iTV product launching next year.
In addition to Samsung Electronics and Sharp, the two companies that are reportedly handling the ... |
28 December 2011
05:35 GMT |
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TSMC has just announced that the company maintains its plans to begin chip trial production using 450mm wafers in the 2013-2014 timeframe, with volume fabrication being scheduled to start as soon as 2015.
The foundry told DigiTimes that it expects to have about 95% of its 450mm production equipment and facilities in... |
24 December 2011
07:11 GMT |
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TSMC has just announced that it has broken ground for the third phase of its Fab 15 facility located in the Central Taiwan Science Park in Taichung, Taiwan that will manufacture chips using the advanced 20nm process technology. When completed, the facility is expected to reach a capacity of 40,000 wafers per month a... |
9 December 2011
11:46 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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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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ARM and TSMC are moving quite fast to transition the former Cortex A15 processor core to the advanced 20nm production node and ARM has already established a process team in Taiwan that is expected to help with this move.The design centre was opened in Taiwan's Hsinchu Science Park and it features a team of eight... |
22 November 2011
05:13 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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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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ARM and TSMC has announced just earlier today that the two companies have taped out the first multicore chip based on the formers Cortex-A15 architecture and TSMCs advanced 20nm process node.The two completed the implementation, from RTL to tape out, in six months using TSMC's Open Innovation Platform (OIP) 20nm... |
18 October 2011
08:08 GMT |
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All the manufacturing issues that have affected Globalfoundries' 32 nm HKMG chip fabrication process seem to have made AMD to reconsider its feature strategy since the company is now rumored to be considering TSMC for the manufacturing of its upcoming Bulldozer processors.This information comes from the Turkish ... |
14 October 2011
16:11 GMT |
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AMD may be forced to postpone the launch of the next-generation Radeon HD 7000 graphics cards to 2012, says a series of rumors that have recently hit the Web and which blame the problems TSMC has with its 28nm chip fabrication node.AMD has promised time and time again that the Radeon HD 7000 series will arrive by the... |
11 October 2011
16:31 GMT |
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Asustek Computer and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company have both issued statements to pay respects to the late Steve Jobs.Commenting on the recent death of Apple’s co-founder, Asustek Computer said the company respects Jobs' vision and his work to bring the whole world new innovations. Asustek sai... |
8 October 2011
10:10 GMT |
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The chip industry has been talking about the move to 450mm production wafers for a couple of years now, and it seems like this transition is finally set to happen as analysts believe this move seems now inevitable.According to a report by the Future Horizons market research firm cited by Xbit Labs, the transition is ... |
6 October 2011
06:03 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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TSMC seems to be devoted to massively improve its chip fabrication technologies in the years to come as the foundry is now promising that it will deliver its first 14nm devices built using 450mm wafers as soon as 2015.This information was unveiled by Shang-yi Chiang, Senior Vice President of R&D for the company, in a... |
8 September 2011
15:31 GMT |
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A comment made by Greg Welch, director of Intel's Ultrabook group, at the end of a Q&A session on Intel's Ultrabook slim notebook initiative, reveals that Apple may indeed move exclusively to its own A-series of chips, if only just for the portable line of Macintosh computers.
Rumors abound regarding a p... |
23 August 2011
04:00 GMT |
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (TSMC), the world’s largest semiconductor foundry by market shares, has started trial production of Apple’s upcoming A6 processor, according to a Taipei source.Softpedia recently reported that Dan Heyler, a semiconductor analyst with Merrill Lynch in Taipei, h... |
12 August 2011
09:37 GMT |
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In the company's most recent conference call with industry analysts, TSMC has admitted that the ramp up to 28nm is taking longer than expected, which forced the foundry to lower its sales expectations for this new fabrication node.
“The ramp of 28-nanometer however is taking longer than expected due to ... |
29 July 2011
16:21 GMT |
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AMD Southern Islands and Nvidia Kepler next-generation graphics cards will reportedly be build using different TSMC manufacturing processes, which will enable the Sunnyvale-based company to release its GPUs ahead of their competitors solutions.
Initially, both of these chips were supposed to be built using the 28n... |
20 July 2011
16:31 GMT |
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has recently reiterated its plans to start commercial production of chips using the 28nm fabrication process by the end of the year.
However, the foundry doesn't expect to manufacture too many products based on this node, as it estimates that sales of 28nm par... |
13 July 2011
08:47 GMT |
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, TSMC for short, may deliver its first semiconductors with 3D interconnects by the end of this year, which cold mean that the foundry could beat Intel in offering the first 3D chips.
This information was published in a report issued by the Taiwan External Trade Developme... |
6 July 2011
16:01 GMT |
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Increasing tension between Apple and Samsung has prompted the Cupertino-based tech giant to switch to contract fab Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company to build its next-generation A6 chip.
Samsung is the company contracted by Apple to build the ARM chips found inside the iPhone 4, iPod touch 4th generation,... |
27 June 2011
11:31 GMT |
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This is one of those cases where the word “explosion” has definite, positive connotations, as it doesn't mean that 28nm chips go up in flames but that they have scored many design wins ever since the technology was launched.When it comes to semiconductors, a more advanced manufacturing process autom... |
16 May 2011
04:27 GMT |
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End-users may have heard of a certain technology that Intel trumpeted not long ago, but it looks like not all large-scale entities on the IT market are as enthusiastic about it as the chip maker is.Back near the very start of the ongoing month (May, 2011), Intel stepped up and introduced a new chip making technology... |
16 May 2011
03:53 GMT |
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Intel could become one of the leading ARM based SoC manufacturers in the electronics world if the company manages to persuade Apple to move the production of the A4 and A5 chips to its factories, claims a recent report.Intel will not be leading in terms of volume, but it could build the most advanced ARM SoCs availa... |
6 May 2011
16:11 GMT |
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) seems to be making great progress in preparing for the high volume production of 28nm silicon as the company is expecting to ramp up its new Fab 15 facility ahead of schedule.
The new fab is placed in central Taiwan and, once ready, it will be manufacturing 28nm ch... |
6 May 2011
10:23 GMT |
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It appears that tablets have started to show up as the culprit behind a whole bunch of happenings, both good and bad, on the IT market, in this case related to the finances of a certain worldwide foundry.Like any product that rose in popularity fast, tablets have become a very disruptive presence on today's IT ... |
5 May 2011
11:01 GMT |
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It appears that Intel's will to extend the use of its processors to as many parts of the IT industry as possible has now guided it to the waters navigated by Apple and its SoC makers.
Apple, as people likely know, is one of the biggest IT companies in the US, with a veritable following of sorts.
It deals ... |
3 May 2011
02:36 GMT |
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There have been a lot of discussions going on lately about the transition to 450mm wafers in the foundry industry, but TSMC seems set to do a lot more than just talk as the company plans to introduce its first 450mm production line in 2013, 2014 while its first such fab is expected to go live in 2015 or 2016.
The ... |
8 April 2011
04:54 GMT |
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With the troubles striking Japan, practically every aspect of the world's economy should feel some effect, but it seems certain companies will get away more or less scot-free, one of them being none other than TSMC.Even now the consequences of the natural disaster that hit Japan on March 11, 2011 are being felt... |
23 March 2011
11:34 GMT |
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Xilinx has just announced that it has started to supply its customers with 7-series field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) made using TSMC's 28nm fabrication process. This makes Xilinx the first FPGA manufacturer to release chips based on the new 28nm node.
For starters, the company will only offer a 28nm ver... |
21 March 2011
09:22 GMT |
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Chip teardown experts have been able to confirm that Apple’s latest iPad is equipped with a Samsung-crafted SoC (system on a chip), amid rumors that Apple has switched manufacturing over to TSMC, a fabless chip maker.
Although rumors of Apple signing a deal with TSMC remain in place, UBM Techinsights is cert... |
15 March 2011
10:27 GMT |
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As one would expect, the massive natural disaster in Japan is proving to have far-reaching consequences, not just in terms of casualties but also as far as the world economy goes, in this case the semiconductor market.No doubt people around the world have already heard of the massive earthquake that struck Japan a f... |
14 March 2011
02:05 GMT |
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Apple and TSMC seems to have entered into an agreement to strengthen their foundry ties, so that, presumably, Apple could move away from using Samsung's fabs for manufacturing their A5 processors that are used inside the recently launched iPad 2 tablet.
According to sources cited by the EETimes publication, t... |
9 March 2011
15:01 GMT |
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While announcements of new products haven't been all that many over the past month, the rumor mill appears to have gone on with its turning well enough, even stating that AMD would soon start work on 28nm-based products.Those keeping tracks of things on the graphics cards market will know that AMD and NVIDIA ar... |
24 February 2011
03:30 GMT |
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Samsung's foundry operation has just announced that the company is getting ready to run 20nm test-chip shuttles for its customers beginning with the second half of this year, making it one of the first semiconductor manufacturers to use this new fabrication node.
According to the EETimes website, Samsung'... |
23 February 2011
10:14 GMT |
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End-users will probably have heard about how TSMC is moving fast to better manufacturing processes, and it appears that the first shipments of its 28nm process have finally begun, or so it is reported.TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company) is, technically, already well ahead of all companies that deal in ... |
23 February 2011
05:50 GMT |
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It would appear that recent events on the IT market have created conditions that placed Advanced Micro Devices in the position where it can't meet APU demand, so it seems it increased orders with TSMC for APUs.End-users that have been following the news will know that, last month, both Intel and Advanced Micro ... |
22 February 2011
05:49 GMT |
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It appears that TSMC has reached the point where it must expand its wafer capacity in order to cope with growing demand for chips and with the (supposedly) upcoming spike in semiconductor orders.End-users keeping track of what is happening on the IT market will probably be aware of the fact that chip sales are expec... |
18 February 2011
08:30 GMT |
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Since the semiconductor market is growing along with everything else, now that the recession is fading, TSMC decided it was time for a solid expansion so it set up its budget for the year 2011.Like so many other IT market players out there, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company performed quite well, from a fina... |
16 February 2011
10:30 GMT |
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It appears that quite a few companies are experiencing the January effect, so to speak, as revenues are generally falling for everyone, on year, on month or, in the case of particularly unfortunate companies, both.That January is proving to have been less than overly favorable for pretty much every company out there... |
10 February 2011
07:00 GMT |
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Although analysts are skeptical, TSMC, one of the major supporters of the transition towards 450mm wafers for integrated circuit fabrication, has just announced that the company will build the first such product pilot line in 2013-2014, mass production to begin in 2015-2016.
The announcement was made during a conf... |
2 February 2011
07:11 GMT |
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After hitting more than a few speed bumps along the way with its 40nm manufacturing process, TSMC wants to reassure all of us that everything is in order for the company to start commercial production of chips using 28nm high-K metal gate process technology in Q4 of this year.
The announcement was made by Morris C... |
2 February 2011
05:24 GMT |
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It seems that the favorable financial results that TSMC finished 2010 with were enough to paint a pretty picture ahead of the world-class foundry, and its forecast for 2011 speaks for itself.As end-users know, TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company) is the foundry in charge with making the majority of AMD ... |
28 January 2011
11:05 GMT |
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It seems that TSMC has done quite well for itself during 2010, having apparently reached all-time highs in both revenues and net profits, thanks, in part, to substantial increases in sales of chips based on advanced process technologies.Since pretty much every company on the IT market has been releasing its financia... |
27 January 2011
05:41 GMT |
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