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Tuesday 26 April 2011
Moore's Law to hit snag in 6-8 years, says TSMC chairman
Semiconductor technological development will be faced with bottlenecks within the next 10 years, with Moore's Law to witness insurmountable technological barriers in 6-8 years, according...
Friday 15 April 2011
Intel, Micron shrink NAND flash to 20nm
Intel and Micron Technology have jointly introduced a 20nm process technology for manufacturing NAND flash memory, about one year after the pair announced 25nm NAND technology
Wednesday 9 March 2011
Anobit shipping NAND flash controllers for smartphones, tablets
Anobit has announced that its new MSP2020 NAND flash memory controller is shipping in multi-million quantities for use within today's most advanced smartphones and tablet computing...
Wednesday 16 February 2011
TSMC board passes NT$85 billion budget for capacity expansion
The board of directors of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has approved a budget of NT$84.99 billion (US$2.89 billion) for capacity expansion purposes. The company's...
Monday 24 January 2011
Ranks of leading-edge chip foundries dwindle, says iSuppli
By the end of 2011, there may be only three remaining sources for high-volume and leading-edge semiconductor foundry manufacturing: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC),...
Thursday 13 January 2011
IBM, Samsung announce joint research for future chips
IBM and Samsung have jointly announced they will collaborate on basic research into new semiconductor materials, manufacturing processes and other technologies. The agreement calls...
Monday 27 December 2010
Commentary: Financially-strapped Taiwan DRAM makers have difficulties migrating to sub-20nm processes
Taiwan-based DRAM makers will find themselves at a disadvantage to migrate their production to 20nm and below processes, as they struggle to preserve cash for the expenses needed...
Friday 3 December 2010
New Micron NAND flash integrates error management
By integrating error management techniques in the same NAND package, Micron Technology's new ClearNAND devices alleviate the challenges traditionally found in NAND process shrinks,...
Wednesday 27 October 2010
DRAMeXchange sees strong SSD growth in 2011
Driven by a higher penetration of solid-state drives (SSD) in storage systems currently dominated by hard disks, and rising retail demand, the market for SSDs in terms of shipments...
Thursday 21 October 2010
EUV to get ready for high-volume production in 2014, says IMEC chief
Extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography is likely to reach mass production in 2014 at the earliest, according to Luc Van den hove, president and CEO of Belgian researcher IMEC. But...
Thursday 14 October 2010
Samsung produces 20nm-class, 64Gb 3-bit NAND flash
Samsung Electronics has announced what it claims is the industry's first production of a 3-bit-cell (TLC), 64Gb NAND flash using 20nm-class process technology. The new chip can be...
Thursday 23 September 2010
Nvidia to adopt 20nm process from TSMC for upcoming GPUs
Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang at the company-hosted GTC 2010 event, said that it will announce its new GPU designs, Kepler at the end of 2011 and Maxwell in 2013 using 28nm and 22nm process...
Thursday 2 September 2010
Globalfoundries adds new 28nm technology offering, unveils 22/20nm roadmap
Globalfoundries has announced the addition of a new technology offering based on its 28nm high-k metal gate (HKMG) technology, and revealed for the first time its manufacturing timeline...
Wednesday 25 August 2010
Applied Materials claims breakthrough in CVD for advanced chip designs
Applied Materials has unveiled a new chemical vapor deposition (CVD) technology capable of electrically isolating the densely-packed transistors in 20nm-and-below memory and logic...
Thursday 22 July 2010
Hynix posts 2Q10 profits on record sales
Hynix Semiconductor has reported net profits of 665 billion won (US$550 million) on consolidated revenues of 3.28 trillion won for the second quarter of 2010. The sales figure marks...
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Samsung expands mobile phone production beyond Asian countries, says DIGITIMES Research
SLMs to increase presence in GenAI business opportunities, says DIGITIMES Research
Generative AI market to reach US$1.5 trillion by 2030 with Taiwan holds hardware advantage; software and services to see promising future, says DIGITIMES Research