Report: UMC benefits from
tsmc 28-nm supply shortage
SAN FRANCISCO—Taiwanese semiconductor foundries Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (
tsmc) and United Microelectronics Corp. (UMC) reported this week that sales for April increased more than 9 ...
LONDON–Foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd has announced it has made a dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor test chip in its 28-nm high-performance mobile CMOS process that it has run at a ...
LONDON – Foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. has announced it has made a dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor test chip in its 28-nm high-performance mobile CMOS process that it has run a ...
GlobalFoundries, Infineon, IBM, ST linked to Indian fab plan
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – Next-generation 20 nm processes can support optimized versions for low power and high performance, according to an IBM expert. GlobalFoundries will decide in August whether or ...
tsmc raises capex to record $8.5 billion, pulls in 20-nm
SAN JOSE – GlobalFoundries is installing equipment to make through-silicon vias in its Fab 8 in New York. If all goes well, the company hopes to take production orders in the second half of 2013 for 3 ...
SAN JOSE – GlobalFoundries is installing equipment to make through-silicon vias in its Fab 8 in New York. If all goes well, the company hopes to take production orders in the second half of 2013 for 3 ...
SAN FRANCISCO – It’s the beginning of the end for the fabless model according to Mark Bohr, the man I think of as Mr. Process Technology at Intel.Bohr claims
tsmc’s recent announcement it will serve j ...
Time for a return to the customer-backed JV foundry
No fab for Qualcomm but firm mulls business evolution
Qualcomm engages other foundries amid 28-nm capacity shortage
SAN JOSE, Calif.—Morris Chang, chairman and CEO of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (
tsmc), acknowledged Tuesday (April 17) that the foundry giant has experienced issues at the 28-nm node, ...
SAN JOSE, Calif.—Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (
tsmc) will offer only one process at the 20-nm node, a change from the multiple processes that the foundry giant has offered customers for ...
ARM launches processor pack for big-little on
tsmc 28-nm
Pure-play foundry market to grow 12% in 2012, says IHS
LONDON – Sales in March by leading foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. on a consolidated basis took the company's first quarter sales above the equivalent figures in 2011.The consolida ...
LONDON – Leading foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. has held a groundbreaking ceremony for the fifth phase of its Fab 14 gigafab at the South Taiwan Science Park in Tainan, Taiwan.The ...
On Semi, Qualcomm, Infineon shine in chip rankings
Major chip maker orders optics for EUV lithography
Samsung is ninth going on fourth in foundry ranks, says Gartner
LONDON – Fabless chip company Dialog Semiconductor plc is planning to use a 130-nm BCD process from leading foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. for power management ICs. Dialog (Kirchh ...
InvenSense names Globalfoundries, TMSC as dual-source MEMS makers
Stion begins PV shipments from Hattiesburg factory
SAN FRANCISCO—Claiming an industry first, foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (
tsmc) and programmable logic vendor Altera Corp. Thursday (March 22) announced the joint development of a ...
SAN JOSE, Calif. – Electronics companies need to step up their collaboration to deal with growing complexity of the technology, said executives from Cadence,
tsmc and ARM at an annual Cadence user eve ...
SAN FRANCISCO—TMSC Solar Ltd., a wholly-owned solar module subsidiary of foundry giant Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Inc. (
tsmc), said Thursday (March 15) it has received both Underwriters La ...
What's going on?I feel like the nerdy schoolkid who has just had one of the lenses in his spectacles broken. I can still see but everthing is a bit blurred and fractured.First it was the dropping of t ...
What's going on?I feel like the nerdy schoolkid who has just had one of the lenses in his spectacles broken. I can still see but everthing is a bit blurred and fractured.First it was the dropping of t ...
SAN FRANCISCO—The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) said Wednesday (Feb. 29) it would cease publication of a closely watched quarterly report on chip fab capacity utilization, one day after it ...
SAN FRANCISCO--Samsung touted its new 32-nm high-k metal gate (HKMG) process at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference here Tuesday (Feb. 21), showing features it hopes might win customers ...
tsmc set to receive Matrix 13,000 e-beam litho machine
Maskless e-beam litho good for 14-nm , says CEA-Leti
LONDON – Sales at foundry wafer processor Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. were approximately NT$34.05 billion (about $1.15 billion), an increase of 11.4 percent over December 2011 and a de ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Taiwanese semiconductor foundry United Microelectronics Corp. (UMC) said Wednesday (Feb. 8) it plans to spend about $2 billion on capital expenditures in 2012, up 25 percent from the rou ...
tsmc plans to launch 3-D IC assembly early in 2013
LONDON – Foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. has hit back at analysts who have said it has yield problems with its 28-nm CMOS manufacturing processes.Maria Marced, president of
tsmc Eu ...
IC Insights: Intel, Samsung 'smell blood in the water'
LONDON – Mike Bryant, technology analyst with Future Horizons Ltd. has said that foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. is in trouble with its 28-nm manufacturing process technologies, wh ...
TAIWAN Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (
tsmc) has announced a net profit of over a billion US dollars, though it suffered from a weaker result in the last quarter of 2011.
tsmc's Chang cuts 2012 chip market growth forecast to 2%
LONDON – Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd., the world's largest chipmaking foundry, announced a net profit of NT$31.58 billion (about $1.05 billion) on consolidated revenue of NT$104.71 bill ...
LONDON – The leading customer of processor technology licensor ARM Holdings plc (Cambridge, England) by revenue contribution in 2010, according to Nomura Equities Research, comes as a bit of a surpris ...
LONDON – The leading customer of processor technology licensor ARM Holdings plc (Cambridge, England) by revenue contribution in 2010, according to Nomura Equities Research, comes as a bit of a surpris ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Taiwanese semiconductor foundries Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (
tsmc) and United Microelectronics Corp. said this week that December sales declined on a year-over-year basis.TS ...
tsmc has held a groundbreaking cemetery for Phase 3 of its Fab 15 GigaFab facility.
SAN FRANCISCO—Foundry giant Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (
tsmc) is considering making an investment in New York state, according to a report by Taiwan's Central News Agency. According t ...
LONDON – Stion Corp., a startup formed to manufacture thin-film solar modules, has announced a $130 million equity investment led by AVACO and a number of Korean private equity funds. Existing investo ...
LONDON – A 50-hectare (about 120 acres) plot of land is being appropriated by the Central Taiwan Science Park in Taichung, Taiwan, on which foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (
tsmc) c ...