TSMC hiring 30% more R&D staff to meet 22nm 2011 goals
The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is engaging in a large expansion. In order to meet their 22nm 2011 goals, with 32nm in 2010, they are looking to increase their research staff from…
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TSMC projects smaller semiconductor declines in 2009
FC Tseng, the Vice Chairman of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the largest independent semiconductor manufacturing company and the 5th largest foundry in the world in 2008, said the...
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Globalfoundries picking up non-SOI talent for design teams
Senior executives from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), and one of their leading FPGA clients, Altera, have found themselves recent employees at Globalfoundries. Yesterday, it was...
View ArticleTSMC asks all laid-off workers to come back June 1, “It’s over!”
The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has reportedly asked all of its laid-off workers to return to the fabs and begin processing memory at break-neck speeds, desiring to keep up with...
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AMD demos world’s first DirectX 11 GPU
Today at Computex 2009, AMD demonstrated the world’s first DirectX 11 graphics processor on new 40nm silicon. The series of demonstrations showed off some of the features in the upcoming DirectX 11 API,…
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ATI and Nvidia have troubling 40nm yields from TSMC
Two articles have appeared recently citing sub-30% yields from TSMC’s 40nm process technology. This has the potential to impact you and I, the consumers, even on this new process node, due to the…
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Intel’s Moorestown platform may have heterogeneous surprise
It’s believed some new information on Moorestown has been leaked. While still in rumor form, it accompanies a previously leaked-by-Intel diagram showing the Lincroft / Langwell-based Moorestown...
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Nvidia silently delivers 40nm G210 and GT220 with DirectX 10.1
Nvidia has introduced two new graphics cards built around TSMC’s 40nm process technology–a process rumored to have had serious yield problems recently, though it’s possible TSMC has (at least...
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Apple to ditch Samsung for its Apple A6 next-generation SoCs?
Apple and Samsung have a pretty close relationship despite their ongoing legal sparring over patent infringement and trade dress. Still, just when things seemed like they couldn’t get any worse, Apple...
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TSMC is manufacturing iPad 3 A6 chip on a trial basis
If you own an iPad 2, then the A5 processor at its heart has been manufactured by Samsung. That’s the case for all A5 processors at the moment. But Apple and Samsung are…
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TSMC clocks a 28nm Cortex-A9 processor at 3.1GHz
It seems like only yesterday the world marveled as HTC and Google created the Nexus One, powered by the first single core 1GHz mobile processor. Since then, the processor arms race has exploded…
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TSMC to spend $10 billion building 450mm wafer factory
Pay a visit to any state-of-the-art processor manufacturing factory and you’ll probably find a 300mm wafer fabrication process in use. This is how processors like Intel’s latest range of Ivy Bridge...
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20nm ARM processors to hit 3GHz next year
The 1.6GHz processor in the Galaxy S4 is pretty powerful, but the new chips due out next year will blow it away. Both TSMC and GlobalFoundries plan on delivering ARM-based processors that will…
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iPhone 6 A8 processor production is underway at TSMC
As with all smartphone makers, Apple is busily planning new devices many months before we have the opportunity to get our hands on them. The iPhone 5S is still only about halfway through […]
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iPhone 6, iPad Air, and iPad mini will use a more durable Touch ID sensor
One of the standout new features when the iPhone 5S launched was that Touch ID fingerprint sensor. It allows easy, secure access to the smartphone without having to enter a code or swipe […]
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iPhone 7 processor to be manufactured by Samsung and Globalfoundries in New York
This year Apple’s focus will be on the release of the iPhone 6, widely expected to become available in September. But with a new phone being released every 12 months, the company has […]
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Samsung starts manufacturing 14nm Apple A9 processors for iPhone 7
The iteration of Apple’s iPhone line of smartphones is relentless, with a new one expected every year. The last one, the iPhone 6, was released on September 19, and while that may still […]
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Apple has already ordered A10 chips for iPhone 7
Consumers around the world are preparing for the release of the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus on September 25, but it seems Apple has already moved on and is looking forward to the […]
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