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Wednesday 26 October 2011
Graphics card makers conservative about Nvidia and AMD 28nm chips
While Nvidia and AMD are poised to use Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's (TSMC's) 28nm technology to produce the GPUs Kepler and Southern Islands respectively, most Taiwan-based...
Monday 24 October 2011
TSMC ramps volume production of 28nm process
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) announced that its 28nm process is in volume production, and production wafers have been shipped to customers including Altera, AMD...
Monday 24 October 2011
UMC breaks into supply chain for Kindle Fire, says report
Amazon's recently-launched Kindle Fire tablet contains a dual-core 1GHz TI OMAP 4430 processor, which reportedly is being manufactured using 45nm process technology at United Microelectronics...
Friday 21 October 2011
Standalone transceiver chips to dominate the smartphone market, says Petrov Group (part 1)
Transceivers are essential to the performance of mobile devices. They are designed to detect weak signals at a specific frequency when receiving and to send signals at a specific...
Friday 14 October 2011
Digitimes Research: Apple portable devices spur competition and technology advances
The success of Apple's iOS devices has reshaped the landscape of the consumer electronics industry and triggered a sales boom of portable CE products. The wave of Apple product demand...
Thursday 13 October 2011
Synopsys, UMC extend collaboration to 28nm
Synopsys and United Microelectronics (UMC) have announced an agreement to collaborate on the development of Synopsys DesignWare IP for UMC's 28nm HLP Poly SiON process.
Friday 7 October 2011
ARM, UMC extend partnership to 28nm
United Microelectronics (UMC) on October 6 announced that its existing partnership with processor IP vendor ARM now extends to 28nm solutions.
Thursday 6 October 2011
MIPS, eSilicon announce tape-out of 28nm MPU cluster
Processor IP company MIPS Technologies and semiconductor value chain producer eSilicon have announced the tape-out of a high-performance, three-way microprocessor cluster on Globalfoundries'...
Thursday 6 October 2011
TSMC to visit Apple for more talks
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has sent a 60-member team, which includes staff from its IC design service partner Global UniChip, to Silicon Valley-based Apple...
Friday 16 September 2011
Apple said to have contracted with TSMC
Apple has recently signed a foundry partnership agreement with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), industry sources have claimed. Under the terms of the agreement,...
Thursday 15 September 2011
Globalfoundries says utilization to fall for mature technologies in 2H11
Globalfoundries has pointed out that its capacity utilization for 65nm and more mature processing is expected to fall 10-15% in the second half of 2011 from the first half, but advanced...
Thursday 15 September 2011
Globalfoundries secures 28nm orders from over 30 clients
Globalfoundries has revealed plans to move its 28nm node technologies to volume production starting the first quarter of 2012. The foundry noted that it has been contracted to make...
Thursday 8 September 2011
TSMC expects to ramp 14nm process in 2015, says R&D head
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) will conduct R&D for 14nm process technology starting 2012, and expects to begin volume production on the node in 2015, according...
Friday 2 September 2011
Globalfoundries, Samsung extend fab sync
Globalfoundries and Samsung Electronics have jointed announced they expect to broaden collaboration, and synchronize global semiconductor fabrication facilities to produce chips based...
Thursday 18 August 2011
AMD Llano processors suffering from shortage; to be resolved in September
AMD's latest Llano-based processors are currently suffering from shortages due to the weaker-than-expected yield rates of the related 32nm process; however, AMD has already notified...