Taipei, Nov. 15, 2012 (CENS)-- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) is reported to be the sole foundry of Xilinx’s 20nm chips, for which the chip vendor has recently announced its strategy, according to industry sources. ...
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Taipei, Oct. 23, 2012 (CENS)--Inotera Memories Inc. recently announced its board of directors has approved a proposal to increase investment in 30nm process with the aim of migrating all of its monthly capacity of 120,000 wafers to the ...
Tags: Inotera Memories Inc, 30nm process, chips for servers, chips, DRAM
Computerworld-There will be a sea change in the non-volatile memory(NVM)market over the next five years,with more dense and reliable technologies challenging dominant NAND flash memory now used in solid-state drives(SSD)and embedded in ...
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Taipei,Oct.18,2012--Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.(TSMC)has set up complete manufacturing eco system for Apple's application-specific IC(ASIC)contracts,in which Intel Corp.is also reportedly interested,according to Taiwan's industry ...
Tags: TSMC, Apple, ASIC order, chips
Altera outgrew the semiconductor industry by almost 2x over the last four years and outgrew the ASSP market by 3x,says John Daane,CEO of Altera. The driver of Altera's growth is the increasing cost of ASSP."Companies are spending$100m to ...
Globalfoundries says it will match Intel in having 14nm finfet chips taped out next year and volume production in 2014.PDKs are available now. The process is running in GF's new fab in Saratoga County near New York. 14nm is the ...
Tags: Intel at 14nm, 2014.PDKs, mobile SoCs, finfet technology
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
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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Six weeks after Toshiba announced it was cutting production of NAND flash by 30%(on July 24th),and five weeks after Samsung and Hynix said they would cut flash production by 10%(on Aug 7th),OCZ Technology,which makes SSDs,says it can't get ...
Tags: OCZ technology, SSD, chip, Toshiba, NAND flash
Taipei,Sept.7,2012--Nanya Technology Corp.plans to exit commodity DRAM(dynamic random access memory)manufacturing to focus on niche memory chips for consumer electronics in one year,according to the newly appointed president,Charles Kao. ...
Tags: DRAM, memory chips, consumer electronics, Nanya Technology Corp.
Taiwan researchers have achieved a reduction in luminous efficiency droop from 42%to 7%by inserting p-type indium gallium nitride(p-InGaN)between the active light-emitting and electron-blocking layers of a nitride semiconductor ...
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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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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According Tech-On.com, Kyoto University's professor Hiroyuki Yano, has added resin, etc to paper or its material (pulp) to make transparent paper. This breakthrough was announced at the New Technology Presentation Meetings, which the ...
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