Next week STMicroelectronics will start running the 28nm FD-SOI NovaThor integrated modem and applications processor designed by ST-Ericsson,Jean-Marc Chery,Chief Manufacturing and Technology Officer of ST told EW in Crolles yesterday. ...
Tags: ST, FD, FD-SOI NovaThor integrated modem, Chery
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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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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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 ...
Tags: Applied Materials, Tokyo Electron, IFS 2012, TSMC, ASML
Globalfoundries is expected to buy IBM's semiconductor division,Mike Bryant,CTO of Future Horizons,told the IFS2012 meeting in London this morning. "We assume Golbalfoundries will buy IBM's semiconductor division and that Hynix/Micron ...
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In conjunction with the SEMICON West 2012 event in San Francisco,CA,USA(10-12 July),nanoelectronics research center Imec of Leuven,Belgium has announced what it claims is the first realization of functional sub-100nm photonics components ...
Tags: Nanophotonics, Silicon photonics wafers, Optical lithography
Firecomms Ltd of Cork,Ireland,a manufacturer of transceivers(including its OptoLock technology,licensed worldwide)for consumer plastic optical fiber(POF),says that Hsin Chia has joined it as CEO.The firm says that Chia has experience that ...
Tags: Firecomms Ltd, Hsin Chia joined as CEO, strategic expansion