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We've seen how Intel has started manufacturing processors for other companies besides itself, and now we get to see just what its leadership thinks of the practice. Apparently, Intel is accepting contracts from other companies because it has leftover foundry capacity to use for such things. That means that t... |
19 April 2012
16:41 GMT |
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It looks like there will soon be a new supplier of processors based on the 28nm manufacturing process, adding to the list made up of Intel, TSMC, UMC, IBM and Globalfoundries.
To give people some perspective, 28nm is among the most advanced manufacturing technologies for semiconductors used today.
Among other thi... |
23 March 2012
17:21 GMT |
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In addition to formally launching the Pitcairn Radeon HD 7800 graphics adapters (7850 and 7870), Advanced Micro Devices made a second announcement yesterday (March 04, 2012). Globalfoundries has had some trouble when it comes to making chips for AMD, particularly those on the 32nm and 28nm manufacturing process tec... |
5 March 2012
04:31 GMT |
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Globalfoundries has announced the appointment of Magnus Matthiasson as Chief Procurement Officer (CPO). He will be tasked with leading the global purchasing activities and will work from the offices in Silicon Valley. Essentially, he will need to weigh Globalfoundries' prospective investments and the relations... |
28 February 2012
11:14 GMT |
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Just yesterday (February 22, 2012), we saw that Intel had begun making 22nm chips for a different company, and this led some to the question of just what chipzilla was after.
Until about two years ago, Intel made processors only for itself, but then it established the Intel Custom Foundry, which slowly began to acc... |
23 February 2012
15:11 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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Globalfoundries has reorganized its global sales and marketing division, as well as the customer engineering and quality functions, so it needed someone to lead the new section.
Full-service semiconductor foundry Globalfoundries has just issued a press release in which it announces that Michael Noonen has joined th... |
16 January 2012
08:10 GMT |
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Globalfoundries announced recently that it had appointed Daniel Durn to the position of Chief Financial Officer for the company while also assigning two other senior executives to key positions.Durn has replaced Robert Krakauer as CFO since Krakauer is reported to be leaving Globalfoundries in order to pursue other i... |
30 November 2011
13:31 GMT |
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Globalfoundries has just announced that its newly constructed cleanrooms in New York and Dresden are ready for the installation of 300mm semiconductor wafer fabrication equipment, a status that marks the transition from the construction phase to the operations phase.
At Fab 1 in Dresden, Germany, the foundry has c... |
12 July 2011
10:14 GMT |
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Samsung has recently announced that its foundry business is getting ready to start manufacturing chips using the 32nm and 28nm fabrication process, as the company has received no less than 35 tape outs that use this technology from its customers.
This could mean that Samsung could start mass production of 32nm and... |
11 May 2011
02:51 GMT |
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Tower Semiconductor has just announced that the company is seeking to buy a Micron Technology wafer fab that is found in Nishiwaki City, Hyogo prefecture, Japan, for $140 million as the company seeks to expand its production capacity and presence in the Asia-Pacific region.
Tower Semiconductor is a specialty found... |
4 April 2011
09:24 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Many chip makers are set to withdraw from actual manufacturing and, as a result, the foundry market will likely grow substantially for those which will retain their foundry businesses. Although, currently, Samsung's foundry business only yields a few hundred million dollars per year, with 2007 sales reported to ... |
8 December 2009
05:33 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 semiconductor manufacturing company GLOBALFOUNDRIES has just announced that it has landed a strategic customer relationship with STMicroelectronics, one of the world's leading suppliers of semiconductor solutions. According to a recent press statement, the two companies will partner t... |
29 July 2009
04:30 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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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 |
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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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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 |
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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 |
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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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