Korean semiconductor and electronics giant buys 3%stake in the Dutch lithography company,joining Intel and TSMC Samsung has followed its fellow chipmakers Intel and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing ...
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Following Intel and contract chip maker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), Samsung Electronics will invest US$976 million in Dutch chip manufacturing equipment maker ASML to further development of next-generation lithography ...
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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 ...
After the shortages of 28nm from TSMC,there is now a tightening supply at 40nm,says Taiwan's DigiTimes. Shortages of 28nm affected the financial results of customers such as Qualcomm,Nvidia and Altera.Now it is said that MediaTek,the ...
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ARM and Cadence have produced the first in a series of combined products for ARM’s POPs (processor optimisation packs). POPs have core-hardening acceleration technologies from ARM’s physical IP division. In the Cadence/ARM ...
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Xilinx says it has increased the top processing performance spec of its Zynq-7000 programmable SoC devices to 1GHz. This is a 25%increase over initial specifications for the two largest Zynq-7000 devices. Target applications are ...
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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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Fujitsu is trying to sell a fab as it moves towards the fabless model. Although Japan's Nikkei newspaper says it is talking to TSMC about selling the fab, it is highly unlikely that TSMC has any interest in buying it. TSMC has repeatedly ...
ARM+TSMC is leading Intel in process technology for highly integrated mobile SOCs,ARM's CEO Warren East tells EW. Asked if it was the aspiration of ARM's physical IP division,working with TSMC,to catch up with Intel in process,East ...
Apple will have to postpone the launch of iPhone 5 because Qualcomm can't supply enough 28nm ICs,according to the Shanghai-based newspaper First Financial Daily. Apple's shares fell earlier this week because of slipping sales of the ...
UK chip maker ARM is expecting sales growth of 15% to £268m in its second quarter results, with profits up 23% to £66.5m, compared with the same quarter last year. The unaudited results from ARM, which provides most of Apple's ...
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TSMC is considering building fabs dedicated to single customers. "Now it makes complete sense to dedicate a whole fab to just one customer and hold that–to hold fabs in fact to just one customer,"Morris Chang,CEO of TSMC,told his Q2 ...
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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