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Monday 9 February 2015
TSMC set to step up investment in central Taiwan
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has disclosed plans to invest more than NT$500 billion (US$16 billion) in its manufacturing site at the Central Taiwan Science Park...
Wednesday 4 February 2015
TSMC to offer InFO-WLP technology for 16nm chips, eyeing Apple orders
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) will have its backend integrated fan-out (InFO) wafer-level packaging (WLP) technology ready for 16nm chips, eyeing orders for Apple's...
Friday 16 January 2015
TSMC to prevail in FinFET segment in 2016 and beyond, says company chairman
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) will gain a majority of market share in the FinFET segment in 2016 although it will lose out to rival Samsung Electronics in 2015,...
Wednesday 24 December 2014
IC design service firms partnering with foundry houses to solicit orders for advanced processes
Taiwan-based Global Unichip and Alchip Technologies, two IC design service companies partnered with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), have stepped up efforts to lure...
Tuesday 2 December 2014
HiSilicon expands adoption of Cadence tools and IP for advanced-node FinFET designs
Cadence Design Systems announced on December 1 that HiSilicon Technologies has signed an agreement to significantly expand its use of the Cadence digital and custom/analog flows for...
Friday 21 November 2014
TSMC to offer InFO packaging for 16nm chips in 2016, says paper
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) will be able to offer its backend InFO (integrated fan-out) wafer-level packaging process for 16nm chips as soon as 2016, the Chinese-language...
Wednesday 12 November 2014
TSMC 16FinFET Plus process achieves risk production milestone
TSMC has announced its 16nm FinFET Plus (16FF+) process is now in risk production. This enhanced version of TSMC's 16FF process operates 40% faster than the company's planar 20nm...
Tuesday 4 November 2014
Samsung, TSMC still competing for Apple A9 chip orders
Samsung Electronics and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) are still in the race for orders for next-generation SoCs from Apple, which is expected to confirm the chip...
Friday 17 October 2014
TSMC to start production of 16nm process products in 2Q15
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) will begin volume production of 16nm FinFET process products in the second quarter or early third quarter of 2015, according to company...
Thursday 9 October 2014
Alchip to build Bitcoin mining ASICs on 16nm process in 2015
Alchip Technologies, a leading fabless IC design house specializing in Bitcoin mining ASICs, plans to migrate to a 16nm process in 2015 from the current 28nm process. Alchip has been...
Wednesday 1 October 2014
TSMC, ARM announce silicon validation of ARM Cortex CPUs on 16nm FinFET process
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and ARM have jointly announced the results from a key FinFET silicon validation of the ARM big.LITTLE implementation, using ARM Cortex-A57...
Friday 26 September 2014
TSMC releases networking processors based on 16nm FinFET
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has announced the successful production of ARM-based networking processors using its advanced 16nm FinFET foundry technology through...
Monday 25 August 2014
TSMC to start 16nm volume production in 1Q15, says report
Taiwan Semiconductor Mnufacturing Company (TSMC) will advance volume production on its 16nm process to the first quarter of 2015 with monthly output of 50,000 wafers in order to meet...
Tuesday 15 July 2014
Huawei to become first client for TSMC 16nm FinFET process
China-based smartphone vendor Huawei is likely to be the first client for Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's 16nm FinFET process node, according to industry sources.
Wednesday 9 July 2014
TSMC to speed up development of 10nm process
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) plans to speed up the development of its 10nm process to fend off competition from Samsung Electronics, which reportedly has landed...