• iPhone
  • By Alexandra Arici
  • August 4th, 2015
Budget-Friendly iPhone 6c Coming with 14nm/16nm FinFet Chips in 2016

Budget-Friendly iPhone 6c Coming with 14nm/16nm FinFet Chips in 2016

The phone might make it out in the second quarter of 2016

  • Video
  • By Horia Despa
  • July 25th, 2015
NVIDIA Pascal GP100 GPU Will Have 17 Billion Transistors

NVIDIA Pascal GP100 GPU Will Have 17 Billion Transistors

Twice as powerful and more than two times the video memory

  • CPU
  • By Horia Despa
  • July 24th, 2015
Samsung Will Start 10nm FinFET Production in 2016

Samsung Will Start 10nm FinFET Production in 2016

Samsung is rushing towards the 10nm threshold fast

  • CPU
  • By Horia Despa
  • July 18th, 2015
TSMC Announces It Will Start Mass Producing 10nm at the End of 2016

TSMC Announces It Will Start Mass Producing 10nm at the End of 2016

TSMC apparently will cut corners to reach 10nm process

  • CPU
  • By Horia Despa
  • July 17th, 2015
AMD Declares Taping Out Their First FinFET Products

AMD Declares Taping Out Their First FinFET Products

Process manufacturing is unknown, but we suspect it is 14nm

GlobalFoundries Will Start to Work on 22nm FD-SOI Process Technologies

GlobalFoundries Will Start to Work on 22nm FD-SOI Process Technologies

The semiconductor industry has a flow of breakthroughs

IBM Announces 7nm Breakthrough, Builds Test on Chips on New Process with EUV

IBM Announces 7nm Breakthrough, Builds Test on Chips on New Process with EUV

Incredible breakthrough with little immediate results

  • Video
  • By Horia Despa
  • July 8th, 2015
AMD Drops 20nm Research Dead in the Water, Has FinFET in Sight

AMD Drops 20nm Research Dead in the Water, Has FinFET in Sight

AMD's 20nm SoC adventure is over, the future is FinFET

  • CPU
  • By Horia Despa
  • June 24th, 2015
UMC Announced the First 14nm FinFETs Will Be Taped Out This Year

UMC Announced the First 14nm FinFETs Will Be Taped Out This Year

UMC flexes some manufacturing muscles with 14nm FinFET

16nm FinFET Manufacturing to Start at TSMC in Late 2013

16nm FinFET Manufacturing to Start at TSMC in Late 2013

The first wave of chips will come out soon because of competition

GlobalFoundries Announces 14nm-XM 3D FinFET Manufacturing

GlobalFoundries Announces 14nm-XM 3D FinFET Manufacturing

The company already has test silicon available and tape-outs will follow in 2013

  • CPU
  • By Constantin Murariu
  • August 13th, 2012
ARM and GlobalFoundries Announce 20nm FinFET Collaboration

ARM and GlobalFoundries Announce 20nm FinFET Collaboration

The two companies will work for faster development of 20nm ARM Cortex A CPUs

TSMC to Start Risk 20nm Manufacturing Next Year

TSMC to Start Risk 20nm Manufacturing Next Year

Low quantity 16nm FinFETs will follow in 2014, but there may be some half nodes in between

IBM Designates UMC to Make Its 20nm FinFET Chips

IBM Designates UMC to Make Its 20nm FinFET Chips

The greatest IT R&D company in the world doesn’t want to rely on SOI only

TSMC to Provide 14 nm finFET Design Kits by the End of 2012

TSMC to Provide 14 nm finFET Design Kits by the End of 2012

The foundry is pushing for the finFET transistor concept

The Smallest FinFET SRAM Cell Has Been Developed

The Smallest FinFET SRAM Cell Has Been Developed

The new cell uses a high-k/metal gate and has an area of just 0.128 square micrometers (μm2)