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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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TSMC seems to be making great progress with its 28nm manufacturing technology, as NetLogic Microsystems has just announced that it developed and taped out its next-generation silicon built using the new fabrication node, leading the way for the likes of AMD and Nvidia to start developing 28nm graphics cores.
NetLo... |
18 January 2011
04:14 GMT |
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It seems that TSMC is quite bent on expanding its production capacity besides just advancing its existing nodes, as a recent report has revealed that the outfit decided to spend quite a bit of money on some acquisitions.2011 will be a year of unusual happenings on the semiconductor markets, as DRAM and NAND, along w... |
15 January 2011
06:17 GMT |
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Once in a while, a company or another will proudly announce the reaching of a milestone or the accomplishment of a certain goal, and NVIDIA and TSMC definitely did something along these lines not long ago.This once, NVIDIA did not reveal some new product or technology, neither did it enter any sort of collaboration ... |
13 January 2011
04:41 GMT |
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Intel is not one of the companies that are eager to outsource their own computer chips, but there are a few rare times when the processor giant is forced to do just this, recent rumors suggesting that Intel has requested TSMC to build a part of the chipsets that are going to be used together with Ivy Bridge processor... |
3 January 2011
14:01 GMT |
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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 |
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Since Christmas really is getting closer by the day, the IT industry figured it would bring forth another present in the shape of a new set of legal procedures, this time involving AMD and TSMC, among others.Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is, as consumers know, the primary manufacturer of both AMD... |
17 December 2010
05:33 GMT |
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It appears that the month of November is returning mixed results for the many members of the IT market, and TSMC, this once, made it into the group of those with less than exceptional marketing performance.
After it got over the last of its problems with the 40nm process several months back, Taiwan Semiconductor ... |
11 December 2010
05:47 GMT |
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With mostly every foundry out there advancing to better manufacturing processes, it is not surprising to hear that TSMC is also moving on to a new node, and it seems that the next advancement will start to be put to use starting next year.For any sort of chips, be they GPUs, DRAM, NAND or CPUs, a more advanced manuf... |
6 December 2010
03:51 GMT |
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It seems that TSMC has already started to think about how it will fare during the next three-month period, which happens to be the first quarter of 2011, and it expects to do better than it did in the past.
With all the issues plaguing the NAND and DRAM industries, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company may n... |
2 December 2010
11:13 GMT |
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Even though most recent NVIDIA-related news has been about its existing Fermi line, or its upcoming GeForce GTX 580, a certain rumor seems to suggest something quite interesting may have happened on its side of the playing field. As end-users well know, after AMD launched its first DirectX 11 cards, it took NVIDIA a... |
4 November 2010
11:43 GMT |
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Apparently, despite what some may suspect, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company is not exactly worried about how Intel recently announced that it would be manufacturing chips for another company.Chip makers like Intel and Advanced Micro Devices often, if not usually, let foundries, like TSMC and Globalfoundrie... |
2 November 2010
11:54 GMT |
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Since manufacturing technologies are always moving to more advanced processes, it was only a matter of time before TSMC finally moved on to a new node, and it seems that the next one will be the 28nm manufacturing technology.Apparently, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company is finally ready to move on to its ne... |
15 October 2010
08:25 GMT |
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Since the rumor mill decided at one point or another to spawn reports that NVIDIA would be contracting Globalfoundries to manufacture its Tegra products, the GPU maker's CEO saw fit to dismiss those claims by saying that NVIDIA plans to maintain its strong partnership with TSMC.As consumers know, the Tegra SoC ... |
6 October 2010
09:26 GMT |
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Though market watchers predicted that TSMC's sales would fall by over 10% on-quarter during the upcoming October-December period, it seems that this forecast has been changed to a drop of 4-5% sequentially, because demand on the part of major chip designers has increased.Demand for chips of all kinds has been c... |
22 September 2010
09:06 GMT |
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Although the semiconductor market, particularly the DRAM segment, is not doing especially well lately because of a slump in PC demand, TSMC appears to have managed to keep its revenues flat during August, compared to July, though the on-year performance showed a 25.4% increase.After finally resolving its 40nm proces... |
11 September 2010
07:15 GMT |
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Like most other companies in the IT industry, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) recently reported its July revenues, only it seems to have fared a bit better than some of the players on the motherboard market, having even managed a slight on-month increase and a position that allowed it to set a fair... |
10 August 2010
10:50 GMT |
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Intel has been selling Atom central processing units for quite some time now but has been trying to get into the mobile business for quite a long time as well. Still, things have not been progressing very quickly, mostly because the ARM architecture is quite well settled in that area. One thing the Santa Clara, Cali... |
5 August 2010
10:03 GMT |
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For a while, TSMC was internationally known for its troubles regarding the 40nm manufacturing process technology. Those issues directly impacted both NVIDIA's and AMD's performance on the graphics market and were very closely followed by the media. Later, the foundry got over its troubles and even set plan... |
30 July 2010
06:13 GMT |
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Though it may have had a rough period with the 40 nm manufacturing process, TSMC, if anything, actually appears to be thriving now that the final issues are being resolved. In fact, the foundry has even started to enter new, long term deals in order to further expand its business outlook. The latest in this series of... |
20 July 2010
06:22 GMT |
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About three months ago, TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company) announced its plans to start building a new 300mm wafer factory in the third quarter. Said quarter is now in progress and, sure enough, the chip manufacturer was good on its word and kicked off construction. The factory will bear the name of F... |
16 July 2010
06:42 GMT |
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For the most part of 2009 and the first quarter of 2010, TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company) had serious problems when it came to supplying AMD and NVIDIA with chips based on the 40nm manufacturing process technology. Then, some time ago, the foundry announced that it had finally gotten over the issues... |
1 July 2010
10:54 GMT |
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Despite the fact that it has been making AMD's and NVIDIA's GPU for years, TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company) currently doesn't exactly have the most sublime of reputations, all because it has seen a great deal of problems with its 40nm manufacturing process. This should have matured las... |
15 June 2010
10:48 GMT |
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After more than a year of troubles related to the 40nm manufacturing process technology, and with AMD and NVIDIA predictably dissatisfied, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company has decided to take more serious measures meant to resolve this issue once and for all. Recently, around the same time when its announce... |
15 May 2010
06:52 GMT |
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Last month, Advanced Micro Devices revealed that it had started sampling Fusion Llano APUs (accelerated processing units) and that the Ontario family was already well on its way as well. However, even though speculations and reports indicated that Globalfoundries would handle the production of the processors, it was ... |
13 May 2010
06:12 GMT |
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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 |
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Consumers that are moderately interested in the underlying conditions behind IT companies' performance and R&D development efforts may be aware of a certain factor known as Moore's law, which states that the number of transistors placeable on an integrated circuit (without cost impact) doubles every two yea... |
15 April 2010
10:56 GMT |
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