Xilinx says it's shipping Artix 7 FPGAs which are an alternatives to Virtex chips but are smaller and lower cost for portable medical,had-held radio and small base-station manufacturers. With the first Artix-7 shipments to customers,that ...
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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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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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Samsung and TSMC have 45 days to take up the offer to invest in ASML. ASML says it has offered Samsung and TSMC the same deal for equity investment+equipment procurement+R&D support which Intel accepted earlier this week. The deal is ...
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 ...
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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 ...
Cadence is working with foundry TSMC on a tool chain and process for 3D chip designs. 3D chip design incorporates multi-chip packages and even multi-die devices with through silicon via(TSV)interconnect technologies.This requires that the ...
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Renesas is going fab-lite.It is putting out its MCU production on 40nm to TSMC. Commnenting on the move,Europe's leading semiconductor analyst,Malcolm Penn CEO of Future Horizons said:"Another small step towards global domination for ...
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Taiwan LED manufacturers are looking to replace sapphire substrates with silicon substrates to produce LED epitaxial chips, which will help with mass production and lowering costs of the chips as well as lower prices for LED lighting. ...
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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 ...
MIPS is taking ARM's Cortex-A series and Cortex-M4 head-on with three microprocessor cores:proAptive,interAptive and microAptive. "We have done a large amount of development across our entire portfolio,"MIPS product director Mark ...
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MIPS is taking ARM's Cortex-A series and Cortex-M4 head-on with three microprocessor cores:proAptiv,interAptiv and microAptiv. "We have done a large amount of development across our entire portfolio,"MIPS product director Mark Throndson ...
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28nm is the first process shrink which doesn't deliver a cheaper chip,says Scott McGregor,CEO of Broadcom. According to McGregor,not only is 28nm more expensive than 40nm now,as might be expected at the start of a node,but that,on ...
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Bridgelux, a US-based maker of LED expitaxial wafers and chips of which Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is shareholder, will use 8-inch silicon wafers and process (GaN-on-Si) to produce LED epitaxial wafers, with ...
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The manufacturing conference at Strategies in Light focused on methods for reducing cost through the manufacturing supply chain. Yesterday kicked off the manufacturing conference portion of Strategies in Light. Presenters discussed various ...
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