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Apple’s iPhone 6 isn’t due out until 2014, sources say, but Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company is gearing up to satisfy processor orders from Apple. A new report from Taiwanese trade publication DigiTimes claims TSMC has actually scored 100% of the application processor (AP) orders from Apple, an... |
3 May 2013
05:26 GMT |
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At one point, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company did not have to worry about roadmaps, and it even dictated what technologies its clients could use.
We haven't forgotten how TSMC decided to drop the 32nm node, thus forcing NVIDIA and AMD to extend their use of 40nm and jump straight to 28nm.
The foundr... |
13 April 2013
06:05 GMT |
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Apple has finally made up its mind in regard to who will handle the chip production for its iPhone 6. The A7 chip, as it is believed the SoC will be called, is reportedly going to be produced by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC). Japan’s Macotakara takes it upon itself to convey a rumor stemmin... |
3 April 2013
09:10 GMT |
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With the ARM Cortex-A57 64-bit processor already taped out, and featuring 16nm technology, TSMC may have felt that its other processing nodes aren't advancing quickly enough. Whether or not that is the reason, the foundry has decided to move up its plans to install 20nm production equipment at its fabs. Digi... |
2 April 2013
09:40 GMT |
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The ARMv8 architecture was what opened the door for ARM Holdings on the computer industry, as it adds support for 64-bit instructions, a must on modern PCs. Now, though, we get to see the first optimizations.
ARM Holdings is collaborating with TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company), which happens to be t... |
2 April 2013
08:32 GMT |
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Ever since the earthquake off the Pacific coast of Tohoku, which took place on March 11, 2011, the world has been warier of earthquakes in general. On the bright side, procedures for better dealing with these crises have been set in place as well.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company either had evacuation pla... |
29 March 2013
03:36 GMT |
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The hit-and-miss DigiTimes is out with a new rumor today saying Taiwan’s TSMC and South Korea’s Samsung Electronics are fighting to get new chip orders from Apple. Even Intel is jumping in, and rumor has it that it may secure as much as 10% of the A7 SoC production.
As usual, take such rumors with a fair... |
12 March 2013
11:37 GMT |
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Until late last year (2012), Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company had trouble meeting all orders of 28nm GPUs, CPUs and SoCs because it hadn't reached full manufacturing capacity.
Qualcomm, NVIDIA and Advanced Micro Devices all need to use that manufacturing node.
Now, though, while TSMC continues to hav... |
22 February 2013
11:06 GMT |
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The world's main manufacturer of chips can safely say it had a good January, with sales increasing both sequentially and on-year.
As Digitimes was all too eager to report, TSMC has consolidated revenues of NT$47.44 billion (US$1.6 billion / 1.20 billion Euro).
That sum is 27.7% higher than the one in Decembe... |
9 February 2013
06:34 GMT |
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company is the supplier of chips for Advanced Micro Devices (GPUs), NVIDIA (GPUs and SoCs) and Qualcomm (SoCs), among others.
Ever since the node went to work, chip yields haven't been as high as these clients would have wanted.
The situation was never as serious as during th... |
1 February 2013
09:56 GMT |
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Right now, the 28nm manufacturing process technology is heavily exploited by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, as it scrambles to keep up with the orders on the part of Qualcomm, NVIDIA and AMD.
This is similar to how TSMC handled the 40nm process, though without the low chip yield drama. It also resemble... |
22 January 2013
12:31 GMT |
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Supporting rumors that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company is building a chip fab in the United States, TSMC announced on Friday that it expects to be responsible for “almost all” 28-nanometer chips for 2013. Apple’s rocky relationship with Samsung has prompted the Cupertino giant to ditch s... |
21 January 2013
07:21 GMT |
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TSMC can handle a few months, even a couple of years, of weak sales, but that doesn't make continuous sales drops any less unpleasant.
As such, that a further drop in sales is expected from January-March cannot have gone over well.
True, the first quarter of every year is a slow season, but when the fourth qua... |
14 January 2013
11:04 GMT |
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company isn't likely to go bankrupt any time soon, but it can't exactly say it is doing splendidly either. In fact, during December, the manufacturing giant sold 16% fewer chips than in the previous quarter. The drop puts the sales at the lowest level in the past three q... |
10 January 2013
10:58 GMT |
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Taiwan’s Commercial Times reports that TSMC has replaced Samsung as the manufacturer of Apple’s A6X chip, the latest generation of application processors or system-on-a-chip (SoC) for iPads and iPhones.
Trial production has already been set for the first quarter of this year, according to Taiwan’s ... |
3 January 2013
09:04 GMT |
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company is one of the few semiconductor manufacturers that still seeks to expand its production capacity, but its new building plans aren't exactly being welcomed with open arms.
While TSMC's idea for a plant in the US is going forward well, its home plans aren't en... |
28 December 2012
12:11 GMT |
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After the November decline of 11.4% in revenue, there wasn't much chance of December being any easier on the finances of Taiwan Semiconductor manufacturing Company.
Sure enough, while fourth quarter cumulative sales are still expected to climb 8% sequentially, early estimates say that TSMC will probably report ... |
21 December 2012
11:02 GMT |
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Just like Acer was forced to reveal unflattering financial numbers, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company has admitted to a drop in revenue during the month of November.
TSMC made NT$44.253 billion last month, which is about the same as $1.52 billion / 1.16 billion Euro.
The sum is, as shocking as it may sound... |
11 December 2012
15:41 GMT |
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Though the demand level on the CPU market leaves much to be desired, the same cannot be said about the graphics card segment, which is why TSMC's update regarding its 28nm manufacturing technology is so encouraging. At this point, the world can breathe a sigh of relief knowing that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufac... |
7 December 2012
03:45 GMT |
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Apple’s fragile relationship with Samsung is said to be coming to an abrupt end, as the two giants are finding it more and more difficult to co-exist in the technology industry. Because of this, the future of at least one Apple product is beginning to seem uncertain.
Every year pundits are able to predict the ... |
30 November 2012
09:46 GMT |
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Apple is about to send a shockwave throughout the semiconductor industry as it reportedly plans to shift iPhone CPU orders from Samsung over to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacture Company (TSMC).
Finance site DigiTimes has a scoop on Apple’s latest plans to reduce its dependency on Samsung Electronics.
It seems ... |
28 November 2012
10:36 GMT |
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It was recently revealed that Bill Owens, a congressman from upstate New York, flew to Taiwan last year to discuss the potential placement of a TSMC manufacturing plant in New York. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company is supposedly showing interest in the area, which means that a manufacturing plant could be ... |
22 November 2012
14:51 GMT |
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Apple’s Asian suppliers are preparing for massive component orders as the Cupertino giant is engaging in a more fast-paced refresh cycle on the smartphone front. Taiwanese news outlets are reporting that Apple might roll out the iPhone 5S at WWDC 2013.
Apple has shifted its annual iPhone refresh cycle from sum... |
19 November 2012
10:46 GMT |
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Apple is reportedly planning (or at least considering) to drop Intel from its Macintosh computers as its custom-designed mobile chips are becoming more and more powerful, while the Macs themselves are starting to look like the iPhone and iPad.
People familiar with Apple’s research are telling Bloomberg reporte... |
6 November 2012
03:28 GMT |
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, the world's premier mass producer of semiconductors, makes a stark contrast with Canon. It makes a sharp contrast with a lot of companies for that matter.
With Sharp, Sony and even Advanced Micro Devices doing so poorly at the moment, the image of the IT industry is ... |
25 October 2012
08:56 GMT |
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Despite the attempts on Globalfoundries' part to take over, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company is still the number one maker of logic chips.
That means that its roadmap update did not go by ignored. In fact, we find it quite interesting that TSMC is thinking of using ARMv8, ARM's 64-bit compatible ... |
22 October 2012
11:11 GMT |
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Changing component suppliers might not sound like a big deal to consumers' ears, and it is true that it usually isn't, but this particular occasion is more important than it seems, in light of the events that took place over the past year. Few are the tech news followers that do not know of the patent war... |
15 October 2012
04:36 GMT |
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According to a research note by Citigroup analyst J.T. Hsu handed to China Economic News Service for reporting, Apple is pursuing a potentially lucrative business with Taiwanese chip manufacturer TSMC.Hsu’s note revealed to the Chinese newspaper that Apple is in talks with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Com... |
13 October 2012
14:41 GMT |
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We’ve discussed half a year ago about the benefits of using ultra processed FD-SOI wafers and how this could lead to huge reductions in power consumption reaching 550% according to research done by STMicro.The French-Italian semiconductor company has done considerable research on the matter as the world’s... |
1 October 2012
22:11 GMT |
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After learning of Micron's unfortunate showing during its most recent quarter, it is encouraging to learn that a different chip maker did well during the third quarter of 2012, even if the type of chips isn't the same.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, or TSMC for short, is the world's larg... |
28 September 2012
10:31 GMT |
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In a surprising turn of events, word got to us that Nvidia will not use TSMC as an exclusive manufacturing partner anymore. The two companies have been collaborating for more than a decade now, but for some reason, Nvidia will work with other foundries too. This might not be so much Nvidia’s initiative as it m... |
21 September 2012
08:41 GMT |
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We all know that Intel has the world’s largest semiconductor FABs and that the company actually is the world’s largest semiconductor manufacturer and designer, but it seems that the giant also wants a piece of the foundry business.Intel is reportedly getting ready to open its FABs for some select customer... |
17 September 2012
20:11 GMT |
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Californian electronic design automation software and engineering services company Cadence Design Systems has just announced the world’s first DDR4 memory controller manufactured in 28nm technology.
The chip has already been manufactured and tested in TSMC’s 28nm (28HPM and 28HP) process technologies.
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11 September 2012
06:31 GMT |
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It seems that our report about Apple moving away from Samsung as a semiconductor FAB was right on the spot and TSMC is apparently doing all it can to ensure the Cupertino giant will call them when the time comes.
Apple’s next-generation SoC, the one that will likely be present in the company’s next iPad ... |
10 September 2012
13:31 GMT |
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Japanese company Renesas Electronics will present a new USB 3.0 HUB controller during this year’s IDF event. The new controller has a remarkably low-power consumption and will enable many interesting external devices with multiple USB 3.0 ports. Renesas started out in Japan in 2003 as a joint venture between J... |
10 September 2012
09:41 GMT |
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As the legal clashes between the two companies are getting tougher and come about significantly more often than it happened before, Apple and Samsung are apparently becoming bitter enemies that won’t collaborate on virtually anything.
For those that might not know, Samsung is the maker of most of components in... |
7 September 2012
19:01 GMT |
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In the quest for more 28nm manufacturing capacity, TSMC is apparently trying its best to expand and refine the 28nm production lines and will put more advanced technologies on the backburner. World’s largest independent semiconductor foundry, Taiwanese company TSMC is now apparently giving up on its plans to i... |
6 September 2012
16:31 GMT |
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MediaTek and OmniVision are two of the few fabless chip companies that have increased their orders with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), but the opposite goes for many others.
This means that the chip manufacturer expects shipments to fall in September, and for August to return a decline as well.
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3 September 2012
10:20 GMT |
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The company headquartered at 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, California run by Tim Cook has reportedly failed to secure exclusive access to chip supplies by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), who was once said to be considering creating the A6 SoC (system on a chip) for Apple.
A Bloomberg Businessweek pi... |
29 August 2012
11:51 GMT |
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Graphics processing unit shortages are expected to last for the rest of the year, but at least the situation is gradually improving, assuming a recent rumor is true and not just there for our ease of mind.
A certain report claims that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's 28nm node has attained a yield ... |
23 August 2012
03:31 GMT |
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NVIDIA's most recent conference call with financial analysts took place a few days ago, but we will only speak about one of the highlights: supply of 28HP chips.
For those who don't know, 28HP is the abbreviation for 28nm high-performance manufacturing technology with high-K metal gate.
It is the techno... |
14 August 2012
03:03 GMT |
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Like ASUS and others before it, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company has made a rough estimate of how much money it made in July.
The consolidated revenue sum is NT$48.53 billion, converted into $1.62 billion and 1.32 billion Euro, according to exchange rates.
That's 11.7% more than in June and 37% ove... |
10 August 2012
11:05 GMT |
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Intel invested in ASML a while ago, making the first and greatest contribution to ASML's Customer Co-Investment Program, through which it hopes to accelerate CHIP making equipment R&D.
For those who want context, ASML is a maker of chip-manufacturing equipment, most importantly lithography systems for the semi... |
6 August 2012
03:14 GMT |
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, like so many others, has published its financial results for the second quarter of 2012, the one that ended in June.
The company's revenue increased 15.9% on-year, while net income went up 16.3% compared to the same period (April-June, 2011).
What's most impor... |
26 July 2012
07:29 GMT |
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Qualcomm and its Snapdragon line of power-efficient microprocessors have forever changed the semiconductor world. It is not only that these fueled a performance race in the mobile phone and tablet market, but now the company’s moves are changing the entire business. The success of the previous models launched ... |
25 July 2012
06:11 GMT |
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The ARM v8 architecture has already been acknowledged as the great accomplishment that will pull the architecture out of the confines of the mobile market, and now we know who will help ARM Holding the most: TSMC.
In spite of what Intel and its many OEMs have said over the years, ARM Holdings has managed to enter t... |
23 July 2012
09:50 GMT |
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Although one of the foundry's top customers, Qualcomm, is frustrated about still not being able to meet demand for its 28nm chips, TSMC seems to be taking it “as it is” and is already making plans for next-generation manufacturing technology. Most industry insiders know that there is no real problem... |
23 July 2012
03:05 GMT |
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As if to dispute the claims that IDC just made, Taiwan Semiconductor manufacturing Company had some worrisome things to say in its conference call with financial analysts.
The foundry believes that its sales in the third and fourth quarters of the year will leave much to be desired, due to weak global economy. A re... |
21 July 2012
06:54 GMT |
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Aiming to place the last of the rumors to rest, AMD has gone on record and has clearly stated that the company doesn't intend to enlist the services of a third foundry.
At present, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company and Globalfoundries make chips for the Sunnyvale, California-based company.
Even so, ... |
21 July 2012
04:03 GMT |
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Back in late spring of this year we were debating on the likelihood that Qualcomm might contract GlobalFoundries to manufacture 28nm chips for them. TSMC was not able to meet the demand at the time and was also clearly not able to comply with future demand increase for Qualcomm’s powerful ARM chips.Although Qua... |
15 July 2012
15:21 GMT |
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