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Wednesday 19 October 2011
ARM, TSMC tape out first 20nm ARM Cortex-A15 multi-core processor
ARM and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) announced October 18 that they have taped out the first 20nm ARM Cortex-A15 MPCore processor. The two companies completed...
Monday 26 September 2011
Samsung supplies server DRAM for Microsoft data center
Samsung Electronics has announced that its 30nm-class DDR3 memory is being adopted by Microsoft in its virtualized data center.
Friday 23 September 2011
Samsung new memory fab goes on line
Samsung Electronics has announced that its new memory semiconductor fabrication facility, Line-16, at its Nano City Complex in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi Province, has commenced operations...
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,...
Tuesday 30 August 2011
Globalfoundries tapes out 20nm test chip
Globalfoundries has announced that it successfully taped out a 20nm test chip using flows from EDA partners Cadence Design Systems, Magma Design Automation, Mentor Graphics and Synopsys...
Monday 22 August 2011
DRAM market outlook remains unclear
DRAM chip suppliers are all struggling with falling chip prices caused by oversupply, industry sources have observed, adding that the market outlook for the rest of 2011 remains un...
Tuesday 16 August 2011
New KLA-Tencor e-beam tool to accelerate defect sourcing for 20nm nodes and below
KLA-Tencor has announced a new tool for chip manufacturing at the 20nm device nodes and below: the eDR-7000 electron-beam (e-beam) wafer defect review system.
Wednesday 10 August 2011
Anobit doubles capacity of flash controller for smartphones, tablets
Anobit has announced a new embedded flash controller with support for up to 256GB of flash memory, compared to its existing MSP2020 controller with support for 4-128GB.
Wednesday 13 July 2011
Samsung Foundry tapes out 20nm
Samsung Electronics has announced that its foundry business, Samsung Foundry, successfully taped-out a test chip based on its 20nm process with high-k metal gate (HKMG) technology...
Friday 3 June 2011
Kingston expects SSD shipments to boost in 2011
Kingston Technology expects monthly shipments of its solid-state drives (SSD) to top 100,000 units in the fourth quarter of 2011, up from the almost 70,000 shipped currently, according...
Thursday 26 May 2011
TSMC completes 28nm design infrastructure
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has announced that 28nm support within its Open Innovation Platform (OIP) design infrastructure is fully delivered, as demonstrated...
Tuesday 17 May 2011
Advanced NAND flash processes worthwhile only with volume production
While major NAND chip producers are moving forward to transition their manufacturing processes to below 30nm, the advance makes sense only if volume production is feasible, industry...
Monday 16 May 2011
ASML to ship 10 EUV tools in 2012
ASML has received 10 orders for its next-generation ultraviolet (EUV) lithography system – the NXE:3300 – with deliveries starting in 2012, according to the Dutch fab...
Tuesday 10 May 2011
Global 1Q11 NAND flash market sees 10% on-quarter growth, says DRAMeXchange
The NAND flash memory market generated revenues of US$5.36 billion in the first quarter of 2011, up 9.9% from US$4.88 billion in the fourth quarter of 2010, according to DRAMeXchange...
Thursday 28 April 2011
Hynix 1Q11 profits down on lower chip prices
Hynix Semiconductor has announced that net profits for the first quarter of 2011 slid 66% from a year earlier to KRW274 billion (US$255 million), citing falling chip prices.