Commentary:Global solar market losing energy Nuying Huang,Taipei;Jackie Chang,DIGITIMES[Friday 14 September 2012]Since the second quarter of 2011,the global solar market has been a ship trying to sail in a hurricane.Solar markets in Europe ...
Tags: Global Solar Market, TSMC, Solon, Q-Cells, and Centrotherm
Altera has signed a'huge'contract for TSMC's 20nm process,according to the Taiwan Economic News. Altera will be the first company to use the process which is scheduled for pilot production early next year and volume production in H2 2013. ...
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.(TSMC)has reportedly landed a huge contract from field programmable gate array(FPGA)IC giant Altera Corp.for 20nm process foundry service although the foundry supplier will start pilot production of ...
Tags: TSMC, FPGA, 20nm Process Service, CoWoS, Altera
Samsung at$13.1bn capex,Intel at$11.2bn,TSMC at$8.3bn,Hynix at$3.7bn and GlobalFoundries at$3.1bn are expected to account for 64%of the$61.4bn in semiconductor capex forecast for 2012,says IC Insights. Back in 2005,the top 5 companies ...
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Kalray is sampling a 28nm multicore processor. Its Multi-Purpose Processor Array (MPPA)-256 processor is fabbed by TSMC. First products to be ramped in volume will be processors for signal processing in an imaging application. Product ...
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Go-ahead confirms that€1.38 billion will be invested in technology development for future EUV and 450 mm wafer systems. On the up and up:ASML's stock price(last 24 months) Shareholders in ...
Taipei,Sept.10,2012(CENS)--Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.(TSMC)is said to set capital expenditure at US$10 billion next year amid reports that Apple Inc.would contract the world's No.1 pure foundry to build its next-generation ...
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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 Solar Ltd,which was founded in May 2009 as a subsidiary of the world's biggest silicon wafer foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Inc(TSMC),says it has manufactured 14.2%efficient modules using its R&D and pilot production ...
Taipei,Sept.5,2012--J.K.Wang,Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.'s vice president for operations/300mm fabs,yesterday said the company,currently the world's No.1 pure silicon foundry,will begin volume production of chips on 450mm silicon ...
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STMicroelectronics'strategy of being a'competitive follower'in process technology means that the advantage in gaining access to processing equipment gained by the Intel,Samsung,TSMC lithographic alliance with ASML will not affect ST. "We ...
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STMicroelectronics is the third largest spender on R&D in the semiconductor industry and has the second highest ratio of R&D spend to sales revenue among the major players,reports IC Insights. ST came third after Intel and Samsung in ...
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Warren East,CEO of chip designer ARM(pictured),has warned that sales growth will slow in the second half of 2012 due to increasing global economic uncertainty and,in particular,the rising expectation of recession and renewed financial ...
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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. ...
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