The race to make the most advanced chips for smartphones and tablets is gaining steam, with contract chip manufacturer TSMC hastening implementation of its latest manufacturing technology to close a chip-making advantage long held by Intel. ...
Tags: taiwan, Mobile Chip, Chip
For TSMC 28HPM process technology and the path for POP IP to TSMC's 16nm FinFET ARM has released the POP IP products for its ARMv8 architecture-based Cortex-A57 and Cortex-A53 processors. The products are available for TSMC 28HPM ...
Tags: IP Products, Consumer Electronics, Electrical, Electronics, taiwan
After years of incremental improvements, Atom chips are poised for a big jump in performance and power efficiency with a new generation of low-processors that have shipped to server makers for testing. Atom chips are primarily designed ...
Tags: Intel Atom Chips, Performance Boost, Avoton
After years of incremental improvements, Atom chips are poised for a big jump in performance and power efficiency with a new generation of low-power processors that have shipped to server makers for testing. Atom chips are primarily ...
Tags: atom chips, Power Boost, Avoton, tablets
Taiwanese foundry TSMC has 'taped out' production of ARMs 64-bit Cortex-A57 using a 16-nanometre process. Taping out is the final stage before fabrication and mass production. The microprocessors could mount a growing challenge to Intel ...
Tags: microprocessors, Intel, core
The Cortex-A57 is ARM's highest performing processor ARM and TSMC have jointly taped-out the first 64-bit ARM Cortex-A57 processor on TSMC's 16nm FinFET process technology. The completion of the final phase of the design process clears ...
Tags: performing processor, chips, ARM Processor
ARM and Cadence have announced the first Cortex-A57 processor test chip fabricated on TSMC’s 16nm finfet manufacturing process technology. According to the companies, this test chip resulted in several optimisations between ...
Tags: ARM, TSMC, Cortex Processor
ARM and TSMC say they have produced the first Cortex-A57 processor on finfet process technology. The Cortex-A57 processor is ARM's highest performance processor and is leading the Cambridge-based firm's attack on the high end server ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
TSMC and Imagination Technologies are working together to develop reference design flows and silicon implementations for Imagination’s PowerVR Series6 GPUs on TSMC’s advanced process technologies, including 16nm FinFET process ...
Tags: Graphics Chip, Consumer Electronics, TSMC
Altera has joined Tabula and Achronix as an FPGA foundry customer of Intel. According to Altera, Intel has agreed that Altera will be the only 'major' FPGA customer of Intel which rules out Lattice and Xilinx becoming Intel foundry ...
Achronix, the high performance FPGA specialist, is sampling customers with products made on Intel’s 22nm finfet process. "We’re sampling several customers," Achronix CEO Robert Blake, told EW. That’s between 10 to 50 ...
Tags: Achronix, FPGA specialist, Intel
Researchers based in South Korea and France have developed gallium nitride (GaN) fin field-effect transistors (FinFETs) with the lowest claimed subthreshold swing for nitride semiconductor metal-insulator-semiconductor FETs (MISFETs) ...
ARM’s close collaboration with the foundries on next generation processes is paying off. Globalfoundries says that an ARM chip made on its 14nm finfet policy delivers twice the power efficiency of its ‘super low power’ ...
Tags: ARM, ARM chip, dual Cortex ARM A9 cores
IDG News Service-ARM is catching up with Intel on 3D transistors,announcing a new partnership with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing to manufacture 64-bit chips that are faster and more power-efficient than current chips in which ...
Tags: ARM, 3D transistors, partnership with Taiwan Semiconductor
Belgian lab IMEC was founded on semiconductor process research,and has grown into one of the two organisations in the world that companies partner with for advanced process research.The other is IBM. TSMC partners IMEC for advanced ...