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 ...
September 10, 2018 at 8:09 pm by Samuel Wan
AMD Will Utilize TSMC 7nm Process for CPUs and GPUs Earlier today, GlobalFoundries dropped a bombshell in the silicon world. Unfortautnely, that is no longer the case, with ...
August 29, 2018 at 7:55 am by Samuel Wan
TSMC Expects Minimal Impact From Attack Last weekend, a wide-ranging ransomware attack hit TSMC. Over the past week, the company has been working on remediating the ...
August 10, 2018 at 10:58 pm by Samuel Wan
TSMC Fabs Struck by WannaCry Ransomware Variant Due to the immense capital costs, there are only a few major silicon foundries in the world. One of the most popular ones for ...
August 9, 2018 at 11:12 pm by Samuel Wan
TSMC Ramps Up 7nm Production On Time Over the past couple of years, TSMC has been making major investments in silicon production. Even with all the new fabs, however, not ...
June 27, 2018 at 10:58 am by Samuel WanTSMC 5nm Process Offers Decent Improvements In just a few short years, silicon may no longer be optimal for chip production. As the process nodes continue to shrink, it is ...
May 15, 2018 at 10:15 am by Samuel WanWafer-on-Wafer Packaging Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd (TSMC), the world’s largest chip contract manufacturer in the world is announcing their new 3D ...
May 3, 2018 at 4:44 pm by Ron PerilloTSMC Fab 18 Will Produce 5nm for 2020 With the increasing demand for silicon, all major semiconductor firms are making major expansions. This is no doubt due to the increase ...
February 5, 2018 at 10:04 pm by Samuel WanTaiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., the world’s biggest contract chip maker, is making big moves to cement its status. Currently, TSMC’s biggest contract is producing ...
October 10, 2017 at 4:53 pm by Ashley AllenTSMC’s 3 nm Fab will be built in Taiwan. We all knew that TSMC was planning to build a 3 nm fab soon. However, it wasn’t exactly clear where this fab would be ...
October 3, 2017 at 9:26 am by Cernescu AndreiA former engineer at semiconductor foundry Taiwanese Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has been charged with stealing trade secrets from the company, which may ...
May 4, 2017 at 6:27 pm by Ashley Allen
After many delays, Intel is finally ready to unveil their new 10nm process. According to the company, the new 10nm process will be 2.7x denser than their current 14nm process. ...
March 29, 2017 at 10:21 pm by Samuel Wan
Over the last couple of years, the mobile industry has taken the lead in adopting new process nodes, leaving the traditional CPUs and GPUs in their wake. Due to the ...
March 24, 2017 at 12:55 pm by Samuel WanWhile TSMC is following an aggressive roadmap for 7nm in 2017, the world’s largest contract chipmaker will also soon begin to make cutting edge 5-nanometre chips in ...
February 24, 2017 at 7:00 pm by Ron PerilloThe Global 450 Consortium, a massive $4.8 billion effort to bring about 450mm wafers has come to an unfortunate end. After 5 years of research and development, two of the ...
January 17, 2017 at 8:00 am by Samuel Wan
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