Taipei, Sept. 10, 2012 (CENS)--United Microelectronics Corp. (UMC) recently announced it raked in revenue of NT$9.79 billion (US$326.6 million at US$1:NT$30) in August, hitting a 20-month high and increasing 1.9% from a month earlier and ...
2013 may be another golden year for fab equipment spending,says SEMI,with growth of 17%to almost $43bn. The last two golden years were 2007 and 2011,says SEMI:"Although spending in 2012 will decline,it may still turn out to be the third ...
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SEMICON Taiwan 2012 kicked off yesterday for a three-day run at the Taipei World Trade Center's Nangang Hall,with approximately 600 manufacturers from 20 nations displaying their latest technologies at over 1,250 booths. The is expected ...
TSMC's 28nm yield is now over 80%,according to Taiwan's Chinese language newspaper the Commercial Times. The Commercial Times quoted sources from TSMC's equipment suppliers for the information. According to another Taiwan newspaper,the ...
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TSMC will lead the foundry pack by a massive 4x margin over No.2 GloFo, says IC Insights. The top ten players in 2012 will be, says IC Insights: $bn TSMC 16.7 GloFo 4.3 ...
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TSMC's July sales were 37% up on July 2011 at $1.6bn and up from the $1.4bn sales in June 2012. For the first nine months of the year TSMC had sales of $9.3bn which is 13.6% up on the first nine months of 2011. Reports say the company ...
Qualcomm is thinking of buying 10%of the No.2 foundry UMC in order to try and secure advanced IC fabrication,according to industry rumours. Qualcomm has been the most proactive in seeking alternative sources among those customers of ...
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Intel's triangular finfets suffer a severe performance disadvantage to rectangular finfets and a further disadvantage in respect to SOI finfets,says Professor Asen Asenov of Glasgow University who is the CEO of Gold Standard Simulations. ...
Qualcomm will be constrained on 28nm supplies until the end of the year,the company's COO,Steve Mollenkopf,said at the Q2 results calls. "We continue to be supply constrained on our 28nm products but are ramping supply with multiple ...
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Top tools makers Applied Materials and Tokyo Electron are unenthusiastic about the possible transition to 450mm,reports the Wall Street Journal. Applied corporate vp Kirk Hassrjian told the WSJ that it would be difficult to convince ...
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Qualcomm does not rule out the possibility of fabbing its own ICs if the current shortages of 28nm product persist,according to the Taiwan Economic News. The newspaper reports that Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs said that the restricted supply ...
Cortus,the French processor IP firm,has developed a 32-bit core which can be used in dual or quad-core configurations. The APS5 processor IP is designed as a high performance core with integer unit and an instruction cache."Despite its ...
Wah Lee benefiting from TSMC,UMC full capacity Patty Wang,Taipei;Adam Hwang,DIGITIMES[Wednesday 16 May 2012]Wah Lee Industrial,a Taiwan-based distributor of electronic materials,has obtained growing orders for silicon wafers,photo resist ...
Maastricht University Medical Center finds that cardiac patients sleep longer when hospital rooms feature lighting that emulates the day-night cycle using LED and other sources. Philips has developed a hospital-room lighting system called ...
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Solar firms have been facing low demand in 2011. As marginalization continues to weed out firms that are less competitive, many non-solar industry leading corporations have been eyeing the right time to enter. Newcomers with strong ...
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