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TSMC Fab 14 B Contamination May Hit Nvidia and AMD
TSMC Loses 10,000 Wafers to Contamination As the biggest third-party fab, TSMC supplies the chips for a large portion of the silicon market. Due to their market dominance, any hiccups at TSMC has serious repercussions for the entire market. Unfortunately, one such hiccup has just happened at one of the…
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Intel Reportedly Outsourcing 14nm Chipset Production to TSMC
Intel Production Woes May Force Tough Choice Just 5 years ago, Intel was the undisputed leader in silicon production. With the best in-house fabs, the company was at the forefront of the latest production nodes. Unfortunately, time has not been kind to the Intel frontrunner. Chipzilla has arguably fallen behind…
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KFA2 GeForce GT 1030 EXOC White Video Card Pictured and Specs Revealed
The folks over at Spanish tech website El Chapuzas Informatico has the exclusive scoop on NVIDIA’s latest entry level GT 1030 graphics card, specifically with a KFA2 GeForce GT 1030 EXOC White sample. Unlike what was earlier reported about the GT 1030, it appears that it is actually running with…
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KLEVV Introduces NEO N600 M.2 SSD to Their Line-Up
KLEVV isn’t one of the best-known names in the industry, but they do make premium memory products for enthusiasts. Mostly they do memory modules, but they also got solid state drives in their line-up and that’s where the new announcement was made. The NEO N600 SSDs already exists in a standard…
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Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 and 1050 Ti Listings Pop Up
With the cards set to drop later this month, it’s no surprise we’re getting more leaks about the GTX 1050 and GTX 1050 Ti. Set to be the counters against AMD’s RX 460 and RX 470, the new GPUs from Nvidia feature the budget GP107 die. In more confirmation about…
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TSMC Unveils Aggressive Roadmap With 7nm in 2017
Even though we’re getting closer and closer tot he end of silicon shrinking, the semiconductor foundries aren’t giving up just yet. TSMC, one of the few companies left in the business, has announced their new aggressive roadmap going into the future. While they’ve just got their 10nm about ready to go,…
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AMD Amends Global Foundries Wafer Supply Deal
Ever since spinning off their own semiconductor foundries, AMD has had a rocky road with their foundry partner. Called Global Foundries, the once AMD own fabs have remained a trouble for the processor firm. As part of their ongoing relationship, AMD has renegotiated their Wafer Supply Agreement with Global Foundries. This amendment…
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Nvidia GTX 1080 Pre-Orders Sell Out in Minutes
After years of 28nm GPUs, the market is ready for the best and latest to come out. Nvidia led this generation with their GTX 1080 Pascal GPU on the 16nm process. After reviews came out earlier this week, we were able to crown the new performance king. With availability to…
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The GTX 1080 Offers Incredible Efficiency
NVIDIA announced during their Pascal event the new flagship GTX 1080, a project costing several billion dollars. This is the world’s first mass production chip based on the FinFET 16nm process and utilises the GDDR5X memory format by Micron. On another note, Pascal is NVIDIA’s most efficient architecture to date with…
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Expect Nvidia Pascal Retail Availability Very Soon
With only a month to go till the official launch of Pascal, Nvidia is getting busy behind the scenes getting ready. Next week, Nvidia is finally holding their private Pascal press event where they will showcase the GTX 1080, 1070 and any other Pascal cards they will launch. For the…
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Nvidia Pascal GP106 To Arrive Late 2016
Both AMD and Nvidia have tended to launch higher end flagships before moving to fill the rest of the lineup. The same is expected for Nvidia’s Pascal launch, with the “flagship” GP104 based cards set to arrive before the midrange GP106 does. As we know GP104 will arrive with the…
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TSMC to Double 16nmFF+ Chip Production
After the recent Taiwanese earthquake, many Nvidia and AMD watchers may have worried about their upcoming Pascal and Polaris GPUs. While TSMC did eventually reveal that there would be a hit to their chip production, especially 16nm, it seems like things should be fine. According to the latest reports, TSMC…
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Samsung 750 EVO SATA SSD Goes Global
After introducing their latest SSD two months ago in China and Japan, Samsung is bringing their latest drive to the rest of the world. Based off of the long-standing TLC tradition at Samsung, the 750 EVO uses the latest planar 16nm TLC NAND to bring a more budget solution to the masses.…
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Taiwan Earthquake Will Affect TSMC Fab More Than Expected
In the hours after the Taiwanese earthquake, TSMC was one of the major tech firms affected by the magnitude 6.4 quake. While the semiconductor manufacturer has initially stated that only minor damaged has occurred, it looks like effects will be longer lasting than expected. In fact, the damage will cause a greater than…
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Nvidia Pascal Launch May Be Sooner Than We Thought
Last month we received word that the first Pascal chips would be launching a bit sooner than expected. At that time, GP100 was expected to drop in April and GP104 in June. According to the latest rumors, it looks like that timetable was accurate, with the GP100 based Tesla chip…
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