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Tuesday 10 July 2012
TSMC posts growth in 2Q12 sales
Consolidated revenues at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) amounted to NT$128.06 billion (US$4.3 billion) in the second quarter of 2012, showing growth of 21.4% sequentially...
Monday 9 July 2012
Nvidia, AMD unlikely to switch from TSMC to Samsung for 28nm foundry
While Qualcomm has reportedly switched foundry orders for its 28nm-based Snapdragon S4 processors from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) to Samsung Electronics because...
Thursday 5 July 2012
TSMC has no plans to purchase Renesas 12-inch fab, says chairman
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has no plans to take up Renesas Electronics' 12-inch fab in Tsuruoka, Yamagata prefecture, but will continue to maintain a close...
Monday 2 July 2012
UMC reportedly to start building 28nm chips for Qualcomm in 4Q12, says report
United Microelectronics (UMC) reportedly has secured orders for 28nm Snapdragon S4 chips from Qualcomm with volume production slated for the fourth quarter of 2012, according to a...
Friday 29 June 2012
TSMC likely to post single-digit growth in 3Q12
Consolidated revenues at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) will likely register a single-digit sequential increase in the third quarter of 2012, or just flat growth,...
Thursday 28 June 2012
Imagination Technology Forum: Advanced SoC solutions in cooperation with TSMC
Imagination, one of the world's three largest makers of multimedia and communications semiconductor intellectual property (IP) cores recently held a technology forum in Taiwan's northern...
Monday 25 June 2012
Imagination optimizes its IP capabilities with TSMC on latest silicon process technologies
Imagination Technologies, a leading multimedia and communications technologies company, announced its collaboration with TSMC to ensure that licensees of all of Imagination's IP (intellectual...
Thursday 21 June 2012
ADI, TSMC develop new process for precision analog ICs
Analog Devices (ADI) and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) have announced a collaboratively-developed analog process technology platform for precision analog ICs.
Tuesday 19 June 2012
TSMC reportedly seeing orders slow down
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's (TSMC) IC design customers have been cautious about placing orders scheduled to ship in the fourth quarter of 2012 as uncertainty is discouraging...
Friday 15 June 2012
Imagination steps up collaboration with TSMC
GPU IP vendor Imagination Technologies has announced a collaboration with TSMC to ensure that licensees of all of Imagination's IP cores can optimize speed, area and power consumption...
Friday 15 June 2012
Chip vendors gearing up for next-generation iPhone
Chip vendors including Qualcomm, Broadcom, STMicroelectronics, NXP, Texas Instruments (TI) and OmniVision reportedly have started stocking their solutions used for Apple's next-generation...
Thursday 14 June 2012
TSMC board approves NT$45 billion bond sale
The board of directors of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has approved a plan to issue up to NT$45 billion (US$1.5 billion) of unsecured corporate bonds to help...
Wednesday 13 June 2012
TSMC reiterates supply of 28nm chips to come close to demand in 4Q12
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has reiterated its previous remarks that supply of 28nm chips would come close to meeting demand in the fourth quarter of 2012, in...
Wednesday 13 June 2012
TSMC expresses caution about US economy
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) chairman and CEO Morris Chang has expressed caution about the outlook for the US recovery. Chang told the company's shareholders...
Tuesday 12 June 2012
Taiwan government to buy land for TSMC 18-inch plant, says paper
Taiwan's Council for Economic Planning and Development (CEPD) has approved a project to assist Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) to construct an 18-inch wafer fab...