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Monday 9 December 2013
TSMC 28nm utilization rate to rebound in 1Q14
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has seen its 28nm process utilization rate fall to 65-70% recently, due to a cutback of customer orders, according to industry sou...
Thursday 17 October 2013
TSMC expects 10.5% revenue decrease in 4Q13
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) expects its fourth-quarter revenues to decline about 10.5% sequentially, due to an inventory correction currently experienced by...
Thursday 3 October 2013
TSMC to spend record budget on R&D in 2013
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's (TSMC) R&D spending, which reached almost NT$40 billion (US$1.36 billion) in 2012, is expected to hit another all-time high in 2013,...
Monday 30 September 2013
TSMC to cover 60-70% of Apple A8 chip production, says report
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) will handle the majority of the manufacturing for Apple's next-generation A8 processors, and the remainder will go to Samsung Electronics,...
Thursday 26 September 2013
TSMC stepping up purchases of 20nm manufacturing equipment
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has stepped up its purchases of manufacturing equipment for its 20nm process which is slated to enter volume production in the first...
Monday 23 September 2013
Samsung to build 20nm foundry capacity, sources say
Samsung Electronics plans to build up foundry capacity of 30,000 wafers operating at 20nm, signaling that it is joining rival TSMC in the process race, according to industry source...
Tuesday 3 September 2013
Inotera to begin trial production of 20nm chips in 4Q13
DRAM maker Inotera Memories will begin trial production of 20nm chips in the fourth quarter of 2013 with mass production slated for the second half of 2014, according to company president...
Monday 2 September 2013
TSMC to raise 2014 capex to record US$11 billion, says report
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is expected to boost volume output of 20nm chips by increasing its capex for the year to a record US$11 billion, the Chinese-language...
Monday 2 September 2013
Samsung enters mass production of DDR4 memory
Samsung Electronics has announced that it is mass producing DDR4 memory for enterprise servers in next-generation data centers.
Thursday 29 August 2013
Foundries to use part of 28nm equipment for 20nm chip production
Foundry chipmakers plan to use part of their 28nm production equipment for the manufacture of 20nm chips, as they are aware of a potential oversupply of 28nm chips, according to industry...
Tuesday 9 July 2013
Xilinx begins producing 20nm PLDs, all programmable devices at TSMC
FPGA chip provider Xilinx has begun producing 20nm programmable logic devices (PLDs) and all programmable devices at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), according to...
Monday 24 June 2013
TSMC reaches deal with Apple to supply 20nm, 16nm and 10nm chips, sources claim
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and its IC design service partner Global UniChip have secured a three-year agreement with Apple to supply foundry services for the...
Friday 10 May 2013
TSMC to budget US$1.5 billion for R&D expenditure
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has unveiled plans to invest a record US$1.5 billion on research and development in 2013. The spending remains focused on maintaining...
Tuesday 30 April 2013
Samsung making 20nm 4Gb LPDDR3 DRAM for mobile devices
Samsung Electronics has announced that it is now producing 4-gigabit (4Gb) low-power DDR3 (LPDDR3) mobile DRAM chips using 20nm-class process technology.
Thursday 18 April 2013
TSMC 16nm FinFET to enter mass production within one year after 20nm ramp-up, says Chang
TSMC's 16nm FinFET process will enter mass production in less than one year after ramping up production of 20nm chips, company chairman and CEO Morris Chang said at an investors meeting...