Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the world leader in advanced memory technology, announced today that it has begun mass producing the industry’s first 10-nanometer (nm) class* , 8-gigabit (Gb) DDR4 (double-data-rate-4) DRAM chips and ...
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Chip suppliers are expected to begin to pull in orders for wafers in order to produce chips for non-Apple device vendors, a move which is likely to start a new round of competition for wafer capacity, according to industry sources. Most ...
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The global semiconductor industry will remain promising in the second and third quarters of 2014, according to Morris Chang, chairman of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC). The production value of Taiwan’s ...
Semiconductor material distributor Wah Lee Industrial is expected to see its revenues decrease within a range of 5% in the first quarter of 2014 thanks to strong sales of silicon wafers in China and rising demand for semiconductor materials ...
Tags: silicon, Semiconductor material, photoresists, chemicals
Altera has joined Tabula and Achronix as an FPGA foundry customer of Intel. According to Altera, Intel has agreed that Altera will be the only 'major' FPGA customer of Intel which rules out Lattice and Xilinx becoming Intel foundry ...
ARM and Synopsys say they have taped out the first ARM Mali-T658 design using a 20nm process technology, ARM Artisan physical IP and shader functionality. The resulting RTL-through-sign-off design flow includes double-patterning ...
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Micron Technology has introduced its smallest 128Gbit NAND flash memory fabbed on a 20nm process. The memory device uses a triple-level-cell (TLC) design which stores three bits of information per cell. This means the device is ...
Cadence Design Systems is targeting designs for the 20nm process node with its latest tools in the Virtuoso suite. Called Virtuoso Advanced Node, the mixed signal chip design tool addresses 20nm design issues such as layout-dependent ...
Micron will soon buy Elpida for 200bn yen (about $2.5bn), of which 140bn yen will be used to pay off debts, says DRAMeXchange. As the Japanese memory maker currently owes 420bn yen, lenders will have to write off approximately 70% of the ...
Entegris' new filter will assist in achieving the desired defectivity levels Entegris will launch its 10nm rated Intercept HPM liquid filter, which is the latest innovation in its line of filter applications claimed to help semiconductor ...
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Taipei, Dec. 5, 2012 (CENS)--Industry executives have regarded an Nvidia executive's statement in a recent interview with a South Korean newspaper as the company's inclination to contract Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) as its ...
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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
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 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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