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Wednesday 18 May 2022
New Qualcomm flagship mobile AP to increase competition for MediaTek
Qualcomm will soon roll out an enhanced version of its Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 mobile SoC built using TSMC's 4nm process technology, according to industry sources. Many are wondering if...
Wednesday 4 May 2022
Intel mulls adopting TSMC 5nm process in new Meteor Lake chips
Intel is evaluating a revision to its blueprints for the 14th Gen Core "Meteor Lake" CPUs by turning to TSMC's 5nm process family to manufacture all of the integrated chips, according...
Friday 29 April 2022
China firms eyeing close partnerships with TSMC
Xiaomi, Oppo, Bitmain Technologies, and AI processor startup Horizon Robotics are all eyeing close partnerships with TSMC to satisfy their growing demand, particularly that for sub-5nm...
Thursday 21 April 2022
Samsung hits snag in 3nm process, yet posing new challenges to TSMC
Poor 3nm GAA process yield performance is deemed as a major setback for Samsung Electronics in its advanced foundry technology race with TSMC, which may dash the Korean tech giant's...
Monday 18 April 2022
Samsung 3nm GAA process yield still far behind target
Samsung Electronics' 3nm GAA process yield rates reportedly are still far behind the chip vendor's target.
Wednesday 30 March 2022
MediaTek, Qualcomm likely to cut quotes for 5G SoCs in 2Q22
A price war between major 5G handset AP suppliers MediaTek and Qualcomm is likely to kick off in the second quarter of the year, while China-based smartphone vendors are slowing down...
Thursday 24 March 2022
Samsung, Intel keen to take slices of foundry market from TSMC
Samsung Electronics and Intel have both stepped up efforts to expand their respective foundry businesses, eyeing bigger slices of the global foundry market particularly in the advanced...
Wednesday 23 March 2022
New Nvidia GPU fabbed by TSMC with 4nm process
Nvidia has announced its next-generation accelerated computing platform with Hopper architecture, dubbed H100 GPU, which is built using TSMC's 4nm (N4) process customized for the...
Wednesday 23 March 2022
TSMC to scale up 5nm chip shipments in 3Q22
TSMC is expected to scale up its 5nm chip shipments to 150,000 wafers monthly in the third quarter of 2022 from about 120,000 units at present, according to sources at semiconductor...
Monday 21 March 2022
TSMC may triple CoWoS material purchases for Nvidia new HPC chips
Nvidia is set to launch new HPC GPU platforms for datacenter, AI and gaming applications in 2022, and its manufacturing partner TSMC reportedly is expected to triple order placements...
Friday 11 March 2022
Silicon IP provider M31 expects up to 20% revenue increase in 2022
Taiwan-based silicon IP provider M31 Technology expects its revenue in US dollar terms to grow 15-20% in 2022, thanks to robust demand from its foundry and fabless customers.
Thursday 10 March 2022
Apple orders account for 26% of TSMC 2021 revenue
TSMC saw revenue generated from orders placed by its largest customer climb about 20% on year to NT$405.4 billion (US$14.3 billion) in 2021, or nearly 26% of the foundry's total wafer...
Thursday 24 February 2022
Qualcomm seeking 3nm process capacity from TSMC
Qualcomm reportedly plans to contract TSMC to make all its processors demanding 3nm process manufacturing.
Wednesday 23 February 2022
ASE eyeing backend orders for Apple-designed 5G modem chips
ASE Technology, which owns Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) and Siliconware Precision Industries (SPIL), is in preliminary talks with Apple for backend orders associated with...
Tuesday 22 February 2022
Yield is key for TSMC-Samsung race in 3nm chip production
TSMC and Samsung Electronics are set to enter a race for 3nm chip production as they both plan to start commercial production of the most advanced available process node in the second...