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’ ...
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Cadence has announced that Samsung Foundry and Globalfoundries are supporting its design tools for 20 and 14nm process node. The two foundries are providing SKILL-based process design kits (PDKs) for Cadence's Virtuoso Advanced Node. ...
With a tough 2012 behind it, Advanced Micro Devices hopes to return to profitability this year through cost-cutting, new chips and other measures, executives said Tuesday. The moves include releasing new chips this year for laptops and ...
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Advanced Micro Devices' financial struggles continued in the fourth quarter, with revenue sinking 32 percent due to slow chip sales and charges tied to restructuring and inventory adjustments. AMD reported revenue of US$1.16 billion for ...
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Researchers from GLOBALFOUNDRIES, SEMATECH, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have extended their indium arsenide quantum well metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (InAs QW MOSFET) technology to some of the ...
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and a consortium of top semiconductor companies are handing out US$194 million to universities for research that addresses the physical limitations of semiconductors and chips. The ...
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Samsung was the third largest foundry in 2012 and expects to be the second largest foundry in 2013, says IC Insights. TSMC's 2012 sales were almost 4x that of second-ranked GlobalFoundries and more than 10x the sales of the fifth-ranked ...
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Fab equipment spending saw a drastic dip in 2H12 and 1Q13 is expected to be even lower, says SEMI, which reckons that the projected number of facilities equipping will drop from 212 in 2012 to 182 in 2013. Spending on fab equipment for ...
Globalfoundries is to build an R&D facility at its Fab 8 campus in Saratoga County,N.Y which it calls its Technology Development Center(TDC). The TDC will cost nearly$2bn,increasing the total capital investment for the Fab 8 campus to ...
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Advanced Micro Devices on Thursday cut its revenue forecast for the third quarter, saying a challenging economy hit demand for all its products. The chip maker now expects revenue for the quarter ending Sept. 29 to be down about 10 ...
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Advanced Micro Devices has cut orders to contract chip manufacturer GlobalFoundries, expecting a "choppy demand environment" in the next few quarters. The company said Thursday it has amended its wafer-supply agreement to cut its purchase ...
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IDG News Service - Following Intel's lead, contract chip maker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), is investing A!838 million (US$1 billion) in Netherlands tools maker ASML to speed up the development of faster and more ...
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An international research team has been exploring the role of gate oxide border traps in devices being developed for future electronics.The researchers presented their results at the 2012 International Electron Devices Meeting[D.Lin et ...
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The top three foundries are in the world top ten semiconductor companies ranked by first half sales, says IC Insights. TSMC's capacity utilization rate in 2Q12 was 102% (exceeding 100% because of the way the company defines its ...
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The iPhone 5 smartphone has the A6 CPU, which industry experts say is the first in a line of many upcoming Apple custom processors that will better balance performance with battery life in iPhones and iPads. The custom-designed A6 core is ...
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