ARM and Cadence have announced the first Cortex-A57 processor test chip fabricated on TSMC’s 16nm finfet manufacturing process technology. According to the companies, this test chip resulted in several optimisations between ...
Tags: ARM, TSMC, Cortex Processor
ARM and TSMC say they have produced the first Cortex-A57 processor on finfet process technology. The Cortex-A57 processor is ARM's highest performance processor and is leading the Cambridge-based firm's attack on the high end server ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
Morris Chang, chairman and CEO of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), noted in August 2012 that the firm had changed its position in relation to investments in solar cell maker Motech, shifting from strategic purposes to ...
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TSMC Solid State Lighting in the later part of the year will put into production uncased LED, saving cost to the LED illuminate packaging sector. TSMC Solid State Lighting President Dr. Jacob Tarn pointed out that the future of indoor ...
Tags: LED Illuminant, LED, LED bulbs
TSMC Solid State Lighting (SSL) plans to introduce LED chip products that do not require packaging, with brightness reaching 130lm/W in the second half of 2013. The new product is likely to save 20-40% of packaging costs, hence TSMC SSL may ...
Tags: LED chips, LED, LED chip products
TSMC and Imagination Technologies are working together to develop reference design flows and silicon implementations for Imagination’s PowerVR Series6 GPUs on TSMC’s advanced process technologies, including 16nm FinFET process ...
Tags: Graphics Chip, Consumer Electronics, TSMC
TSMC Solid State Lighting (TSMC SSL) announced today that its laboratory was accredited as a LM-80 qualified lab by Taiwan Accreditation Foundation (TAF). At the same time, all of its LED product series have been tested in the lab and will ...
Tags: Solid State Lighting, Lighting, LED product
Seven O-S-D product categories and device groups reached record-high sales in 2012 compared to 14 new records being set in 2011, according to data shown in the 2013 edition of IC Insights’ O-S-D Report, A Market Analysis and Forecast ...
Tags: opto sensor, Optoelectronics, sensor
On March 1, "Fortune" magazine publishes "2013 Global Most Admired Companies" list and Baosteel is again on the list.. According to this year's "Fortune" list, Apple, Google, Amazon rank the top three of the Most Admired Companies and ...
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Labrador Iron Mines Holdings (LIM) and Tata steel have already settled the cooperation agreement, including the sale of a 51% stake in the Howse iron ore. Under the agreement, LIM and Tata Steel Minerals Canada (TSMC) will develop rail ...
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By Christian Gregor Dieseldorff, director, SEMI Industry Research & Statistics, San Jose, CA USA Despite difficult times, growing demand for mobile devices (such as tablets and phones) inspires an improved outlook for chip sales in ...
Tags: 2013, Fab Equipment, Spending
The light-emitting diode (LED) industry is entering its third growth cycle, general lighting, according to Yole Développement and EPIC’s report, “Status of the LED Industry.” However, the cost of a packaged LED ...
Fab equipment spending for Front End facilities is expected to be flat in 2013, remaining around $31.7 billion, increasing to $39.3 billion in 2014 — a 24% increase. The SEMI World Fab Forecast also reveals that in 2013 increases for ...
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Toronto, Ontario-based iron ore producer Labrador Iron Mines Holdings Limited (LIM) has announced that it has entered into a framework arrangement with Tata Steel Minerals Canada (TSMC), a subsidiary of India-based steel giant Tata Steel ...
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The foundries are doing solidly well so far this year. Both TSMC and UMC are up on last year. No.1 foundry TSMC had February sales of $1.38bn which was 13% down on January but 21.5% up on February 2012. TSMC’s Jan/Feb sales total ...
Tags: TSMC, UMC, February sales