UMC 2Q12 results beat guidance

Jul 25, 15:07

United Microelectronics (UMC) saw its revenue and gross margin results for the second quarter of 2012 slightly beat its guidance. Looking forwad, the IC foundry expects marginal sequential...

TSMC expects 6-8% sales rise in 3Q12, but dips ahead

Jul 19, 16:08

TSMC has announced brisk results for the second quarter of 2012, which met the high end of its guidance. The foundry chipmaker expects to post another sequential growth, but at a...

Globalfoundries to fab 28nm chips for Qualcomm, says paper

Newswatch - Jul 13, 11:05

Qualcomm has contracted Globalfoundries' Dresden fab to manufacture 28nm chips, the Chinese-language Commercial Times cited unnamed equipment makers as saying in a recent...

Lattice to work with UMC on 28nm

Jul 10, 12:24

Lattice Semiconductor has announced a long-term technology partnership with United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC). As part of this partnership, Lattice and UMC will continue work,...

Nvidia, AMD unlikely to switch from TSMC to Samsung for 28nm foundry

Jul 9, 11:01

While Qualcomm has reportedly switched foundry orders for its 28nm-based Snapdragon S4 processors from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) to Samsung Electronics because...

UMC reportedly to start building 28nm chips for Qualcomm in 4Q12, says report

Newswatch - Jul 2, 10:56

United Microelectronics (UMC) reportedly has secured orders for 28nm Snapdragon S4 chips from Qualcomm with volume production slated for the fourth quarter of 2012, according to a...

Chip vendors gearing up for next-generation iPhone

Jun 15, 12:10

Chip vendors including Qualcomm, Broadcom, STMicroelectronics, NXP, Texas Instruments (TI) and OmniVision reportedly have started stocking their solutions used for Apple's next-generation...

Nvidia, AMD may miss PC replacement trend brought by Diablo 3

Jun 12, 01:35

Although the recent release of online PC game Diablo 3 has brought on a strong PC replacement trend in the consumer PC market, Nvidia and AMD may miss a good opportunity as their...

UMC holds groundbreaking ceremony for new facilities at 12-inch fab

May 24, 16:26

United Microelectronics (UMC) on May 24 held a groundbreaking ceremony for the fifth and sixth phase (P5 and P6) construction of its 12-inch plant located in southern Taiwan. Equipment...

TSMC 3Q12 revenues to grow at a slower pace than expected, say sources

May 23, 14:07

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) may see its revenues grow only at 5% sequentially in the third quarter of 2012 compared to a 10% growth projected earlier due to...

TSMC posts growth in April revenues

May 10, 15:01

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has announced consolidated revenues for April 2012 grew 9.2% sequentially and 9.1% from a year ago to NT$40.5 billion (US$1.4 bill...

TSMC gives priority to Nvidia for 28nm capacity

May 9, 15:43

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has given priority to Nvidia for 28nm capacity, according to industry sources.

TSMC 28nm ARM Cortex-A9 test chip reaches beyond 3GHz

May 4, 14:39

TSMC has announced that its 28nm ARM Cortex-A9 dual-core processor test chip has achieved 3.1GHz performance under typical conditions.

28nm represents fundamental shift in foundry industry

May 3, 13:57

While the recent focus of attention concerning the roll out of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's (TSMC) 28nm process has been on tight supply and yield issues, with fabless...

Graphics card shortages to see improvements in late May

May 3, 01:20

AMD and Nvidia, impacted by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's (TSMC's) fully-booked capacity, had rather weak shipment performance in the first quarter; however, as more...

TSMC eyeing advanced process chip orders from Apple

May 2, 16:36

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's (TSMC) plans to ramp up 20nm production ahead of schedule have prompted industry sources to speculate that the foundry will be aggressively...

20nm process to take off in 2013, says Cadence executive

Apr 19, 15:15

The semiconductor industry will accelerate towards the adoption of 28nm process in 2012, and begin its transition to the next technology node in 2013, according to Chi-Ping Hsu, a...

TSMC 28nm ramp-up within expectations, says Digitimes Research

Apr 17, 16:17

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) could ramp up its 28nm production capacity at a much faster pace than older 40/45nm and 65nm process nodes, according to Digitimes...

Socle 1Q12 revenues hit record

Apr 17, 15:03

Socle Technology, an IC design service company partnering with Globalfoundries, hit record high revenues in the first quarter, with sales from the ASIC segment reaching NT$185 million,...

Xilinx collaboration with TSMC said to extend to 20nm

Apr 17, 01:20

The successful roll-out of Xilinx devices on 28nm at TSMC has encouraged the FPGA design firm to utilize TSMC's 20nm technology for its next-generation products, with the tape-out...

Qualcomm, Nvidia said to approach other foundries for 28nm production

Apr 17, 01:05

The reported tight supply of chips built using TSMC's 28nm process technology is likely to drive Nvidia and Qualcomm toward other foundries as a second source, industry sources have...

TSMC begins further expansion of Fab 14

Apr 9, 12:03

TSMC on April 9 held a groundbreaking ceremony at the South Taiwan Science Park in Tainan for Phase 5 of its Fab 14 Gigafab. Following TSMC's Fab 12 Phase 6 in Hsinchu, this facility...

TSMC 28nm capacity in large shortage

Apr 6, 01:10

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's (TSMC) 28nm foundry capacity has been drastically short of demand from Qualcomm, AMD and Nvidia mainly, but the shortage is expected to...

ASE, SPIL remain conservative on business outlook

Mar 20, 14:41

While the recent news that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is mulling an upward revision in 2012 capex has boosted market observers' confidence in the outlook for...

Global Unichip reaches tape-out of 30 customer devices using Synopsys IP

Mar 14, 14:08

IC design service provider Global Unichip and Synopsys, an EDA and IP company, have jointly announced the tape out of 30 customer devices during the past four years using a combination...