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 Wan
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’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
Despite the increasing difficulties, semiconductor fabs have continued to push the limits of silicon. After arriving at 14nm and now moving onto 10nm, investment is already ...
December 12, 2016 at 12:00 pm by Samuel WanEven 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 ...
October 1, 2016 at 10:51 am by Samuel Wan
Taiwanese chipmaker MediaTek is set to launch two new processors next year, based on TSMC’s 10nm process. One of those chips will be the Helio X35, which was initially ...
September 27, 2016 at 10:56 am by Ashley Allen
Now that 14nm/16nm chips are finally upon us en masse, some are already looking past that to the next node. Logically, the next node would be 10nm but that won’t be true ...
April 22, 2016 at 10:00 am by Samuel Wan
With both the Pascal announcement and GeForce launch coming ins the next 2 months, more information is being leaked about the upcoming Nvidia cards. According to the latest ...
March 11, 2016 at 11:12 am by Samuel WanAfter 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 ...
March 8, 2016 at 10:50 am by Samuel Wan
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 ...
February 16, 2016 at 2:18 pm by Samuel Wan
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