TSMC May Be Sole Apple A13 SoC Supplier
TSMC Secures Greater Dominance With Apple Win Taiwanese firm TSMC is shaping up to be the dominant third-party foundry solution for the next while. With Intel and ...
October 24, 2018 at 10:02 am by Samuel WanTSMC
TSMC 7nm+ Designs Taped Out, 5nm Starts Early 2019
TSMC Already Looking to 5nm Node After holding the lead for quite a while, Intel has largely lost their manufacturing lead. Taking the lead, both Samsung and TSMC have moved ...
October 23, 2018 at 9:16 am by Samuel Wan
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 ...
September 10, 2018 at 8:09 pm by Samuel Wan
AMD Announces Pivot to TSMC 7nm Process
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 Reports Full Recovery From Ransomware Attack
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 Offlined by Ransomware Attack
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 WanTSMC Ramping Up 7nm Production, Ready for 5nm
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 Details Improvements For 5nm Process
TSMC 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 WanTSMC Announces Wafer-on-Wafer 3D Stacking Technology
Wafer-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 Starts Building Fab 18 for 5nm Production
TSMC 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 WanTSMC to Invest $20B in State-of-the-Art Chip Plant
Taiwan 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 Wants to Build a 3 nm Fab in Taiwan
TSMC’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 AndreiTSMC Engineer Charged With Stealing Trade Secrets
A 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
Intel Claims New 10nm Process Full Generation Ahead of Competition
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
TSMC Starts 7nm Risk Production in April
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 Wan
