Israel-based IC design house Advasense is in talks with several foundries, including Aptina, for future cooperation for the development of CMOS image sensor (CIS) technology, according...

MediaTek's handset chip shipments are expected to reach 100 million units in the third quarter, hitting the company's record, and topping 350 million units in 2009, according to industry...

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has announced that NetLogic Microsystems (NETL) is currently sampling its single-die quad-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) physical...

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) next week will announce that its manufacturing process for MEMS ICs can be wholly completed at its 8-inch fab (Fab3). The development...

Pure-play foundries Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) have recently spent a combined NT$9.05 billion (US$273.4 million)...

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) continued to enjoy sequential revenue growth in June 2009, and saw the on-year decrease narrow to 9.6% compared to double-digit drops...

NXP Semiconductors and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) on July 9 announced their cooperation to deliver the industry's first single-chip 45nm global LCD TV platform,...

Total fab spending worldwide is poised to grow 61.5% in 2010, following a 50.7% drop in 2009, according to SEMI. The association previously predicted the overall fab spending would...

Nvidia expects to launch its new 40nm GeForce GT220 (GT216) and GeForce G210 (GT218) GPUs at the end of September 2009, according to a Chinese-language Commercial Times report...

United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) has responded to recent speculation indicating its 65nm yield problems have affected shipments to Xilinx. UMC asserted that there are no...

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has announced it will join a three-year program led by the CEA-Leti research institute on electron-beam (e-beam) maskless lithography...

Intel will adopt silicon IP from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) to manufacture a customized version of its Langwell chipset (the chipset component of its next-generation...

MEMS firm InvenSense is seeking partnerships with Taiwan-based foundries including Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC), Touch...

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has announced what it claims to be the foundry segment's first functional 65nm multi-time programmable (MTP) non-volatile memory...

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has cumulatively shipped over five million 12-inch equivalent wafers of chips processed with sub 0.13-micron processes, according...