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NEWS & VIEWS |
Taipei,
Monday, November 23, 2009
07:59 (GMT+8)
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Hynix announces 40nm 2Gb DDR3 Nov 20, 10:03 Hynix Semiconductor has announced Intel validation of 2Gb DDR3 DRAM chips using 40nm-class process technology. The chipmaker said it has begun mass producing the new chips, and expects the validation of RDIMMs to also be completed within before year's end. Read more |
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DRAM production costs to drop significantly in 2010, say Taiwan makers Nov 17, 14:17 With more DRAM producers progressing to next-generation production process, the competition in die shrink will cause an overall reduction in DRAM production costs in 2010, according to sources at Taiwan-based DRAM makers. Read more |
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Nvidia Fermi push-back to 2010 not expected to impact sales, say sources Nov 9, 13:57 Nvidia's decision to push back the launch of its next-generation flagship GT300 (Fermi) GPU to the first quarter of fiscal 2011 (January 26-April 26, 2010) is unlikely to affect the company's performance for the remaining part of 2009, according to industry sources in Taiwan. Read more |
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AMD GPU shortage causing PC vendors to delay products to 1Q10 Nov 5, 16:06 Tight supply of AMD GPUs has caused several PC vendors to delay their mass shipment schedules by about two months to the first quarter of 2010, according to sources at the companies. Read more |
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UMC to offer more incentives to employees Nov 4, 11:20 United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) has decided to distribute performance bonuses among its employees as an incentive to reinforce loyalty. The foundry also plans to sell treasury stock shares to employees at lower-than-market prices, in a move to boost employees' confidence, according to industry sources in Taiwan. Read more |
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TSMC 40nm yield issues resurface, CEO promises fix by year-end Oct 30, 12:24 Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has revealed it recently run into issues with its 40nm process technology impacting yields. Company chairman and CEO Morris Chang pledged the issue will be solved within the quarter. Read more |
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TSMC 3Q09 profits almost flat; sees more sales from 45/40nm Oct 29, 15:18 Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has announced net income of NT$30.55 billion (US$939 million) on consolidated revenues of NT$89.94 billion for the third quarter of 2009, with both profits and sales showing low single-digit drops on year. Read more |
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SMIC extends 45nm offerings to 40nm and 55nm Oct 15, 16:07 Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) has announced that it will extend its 45nm bulk CMOS technologies to 40nm and 55nm geometries. Read more |
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TSMC, UMC expected to hike capex in 2010 Oct 13, 14:22 Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) are expected to implement aggressive capex plans for 2010, when the semiconductor market is likely to stage a turnaround, according to sources at the companies. Read more |
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Hynix adds 1Gb DDR3 built on 54nm Oct 12, 11:41 Hynix Semiconductor has announced its second-generation 1Gb DDR3 chip using 54nm process technology. The new 1Gb DDR3 chip available now in x4 and x8 configurations, and has been produced in mass volume from this month (October 2009). Read more |
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UMC ramping 45/40nm at Fab 12i Oct 9, 10:33 United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) has begun implementing a capacity expansion project for 45/40nm production at its Singapore-based 300mm (12-inch) wafer fab - Fab 12i, according to the pure-play foundry. Read more |
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Elpida readies 40nm 2Gb DDR3 SDRAM Oct 8, 10:55 Elpida Memory has announced that it had completed development of a 40nm 2-gigabit (2Gb) DDR3 SDRAM, with sample shipments slated for November and mass production expected to begin before the end of 2009. Read more |
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GPU shortage expected to last through 1Q10, says paper Newswatch - Oct 5, 17:11 A shortage of 55nm-made GPUs is expected to last through the first quarter of 2010, as both AMD and Nvidia are focusing their attention toward DirectX 11-based 40nm-made GPUs, according to a Chinese-language Commercial Times report citing sources from the retail channel. Read more |
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AppliedMicro-TSMC partner on embedded processors Sep 28, 10:59 Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (AppliedMicro, formerly AMCC) and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) have jointly announced a collaboration enabling AppliedMicro's Power Architecture processors to be manufactured on TSMC's technology platform first at 90nm then moving to 65nm and 40nm soon after. Read more |
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TSMC to ramp capacity at Fab 14 for Intel Atom opportunity Sep 25, 17:09 Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has scheduled a ramp up of monthly capacity at its 300mm (12-inch) wafer fab (Fab 14) located in southern Taiwan at the Tainan Science Park to 6,000 wafers by the end of 2009, and to about 35,000 wafers in 2010, according to sources at chip equipment suppliers. Read more |
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Altera to maintain TSMC relationship; does not rule out opportunities for additional foundry partnerships in future Sep 21, 12:09 When recently asked if Altera ruled out the possibility of partnering with more foundries in the future for low-cost chip production, Ying Chen, country manager, Altera Taiwan reiterated that the company's current strategy is to maintain its collaboration with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), but he added that Altera does not rule out any possibilities for future relationships. Read more |
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Nvidia CEO to visit Taiwan in October, to discuss 40nm contract prices with TSMC Sep 18, 16:18 Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang will travel to Taiwan in the second half of October to meet with its motherboard and graphics card partners. Huang is also expected to hold talks with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) chairman Morris Chang to discuss contract prices for 40nm production, according to sources at graphics card makers. Read more |
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TSMC to process more 12-inch wafers on 45/40nm in 4Q09 Sep 11, 10:45 Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is expected to process more 12-inch wafers on 45/40nm processes in the fourth quarter of 2009, with monthly output to ramp up by around 33% sequentially, according to market sources. However, overall wafer shipments in the fourth quarter will likely slide 3% on quarter due to seasonality. Read more |
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Nvidia 40nm GeForce 210 GPU to hit channel in October Aug 19, 16:39 Nvidia's new 40nm GeForce 210 (GT218) GPU-based graphics cards will be available in the retail channel in October, as yield of the 40nm process at foundry partner Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has improved, according to industry sources. Read more |
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Micron set to ramp 40nm production at end of 2009 Aug 17, 15:32 Micron Technology is scheduled to kick off volume production using 40nm process technology at its 12-inch wafer fab in Singapore at the end of 2009, according to the company. The US-based memory maker said producing on 40nm coupled with its 6F2 technology will make 40nm the company's major process technology in 2011, prior to moving to a 4F2 cell design in 2012. Read more |
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UMC steps up equipment purchases to ramp 40nm capacity Aug 13, 12:47 United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) has spent around NT$4 billion (US$121.6 million) over the past month to purchase equipment, in a move to ramp up its 40nm-class process nodes. The pure-play foundry estimates that 45/40nm will account for 1% of its wafer revenues in the third quarter of 2009, and the ratio is expected to reach 2% in the fourth quarter, according to the company. Read more |
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Elpida to volume produce 2Gb DDR3 on 40nm in 4Q09, says paper Newswatch - Aug 11, 14:27 Elpida Memory is scheduled to kick off volume production of 2Gb DDR3 devices using 40nm-class process technology in the fourth quarter of 2009, the Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN) has cited the Nikkan Kogyo newspaper as indicating. Read more |
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Global Unichip to volume produce 40nm PCIe Gen2 IP by end of 2009 Aug 11, 09:28 Global Unichip has announced that its recent success on Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC)'s 40nm G process PCIe Gen2 IP has been validated in the data rate that ranges from 1Gbps to 6.25Gbps, while it consumes less than 100mW per lane. Furthermore, the company plans to unveil a series of Gbps interface IP solutions, including DDR2/3, SATA, USB3.0, XAUI, and 10G SERDES by the end of 2009. Read more |
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Global Unichip vying for monitoring system, SSD markets Aug 7, 12:29 Global Unichip has secured orders for high-speed interface solutions targeting the monitoring system and SSD markets which are usually led by IDMs such as IBM, and it expects to grab a greater share of these markets in the future, according to company president Jim Lai. Read more |
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Elpida set to enter 40nm in 2010, sources say Aug 7, 11:03 Elpida Memory is scheduled to migrate to 40nm-class production in 2010 to avoid lagging behind competitors, according to industry sources. The Japan-based memory maker intends to focus its efforts on developing a mature 40nm node, and regard 50nm as a transitional process. Read more |
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TSMC promoting OIP by combining EDA, IP Newswatch - Aug 4, 16:16 Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is making efforts to make its OIP (Open Innovation Platform) - a technology platform for integrated services from IC design to manufacturing to packaging and testing - more attractive through combining providers of EDA (electronic design automation) and IP into OIP, according to company vice president for Design and Technology Platform Fu-Chieh Hsu. Read more |
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TSMC CEO claims improved 40nm yield, predicts better 3Q09 Jul 31, 10:37 Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has issued positive guidance for the third quarter of 2009, following its improved second-quarter earnings that underline the chip market's recovery. In addition, the chipmaker has seen yield rates on its 40/45nm processes increase to around 60%, according to company chairman and CEO Morris Chang. Read more |
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UMC gearing up for 40nm Jul 24, 15:02 United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) has been working closely with customers, including FPGA specialist Xilinx, to volume produce 45/40nm products at its 300mm (12-inch) fabs, according to market sources. The pure-play foundry is gearing up to enter mass production on its 40nm nodes. Read more |
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TSMC intros interoperable PDK, unified EDA formats for advanced processes Jul 22, 11:47 Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has launched an interoperable process design kit (iPDK) for use in 65nm analog/mixed-signal and RF designs. TSMC has also introduced two unified EDA data formats for its 40nm process - interoperable design rule check (iDRC) and layout-versus-schematic (iLVS) - that unify the process design rule specifications and technology file generation in the IC design flow. Read more |
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Xilinx working closely with foundries to ensure 40nm FPGA supply, sources say Jul 17, 16:09 Xilinx is reportedly working closely with United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) and Samsung Electronics, to ensure smooth supply of its recently-announced Virtex-6 and Spartan-6 FPGAs (field-programmable gate arrays) built on 40/45nm process technology, according to industry sources. Read more |
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NetLogic Microsystems migrates multiple product lines to TSMC 40nm Jul 16, 10:05 Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has announced that NetLogic Microsystems (NETL) is currently sampling its single-die quad-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) physical layer (PHY) devices (NLP2040 and NLP3040), both of which are manufactured in the foundry's advanced 40nm process, for switches, routers and blade servers. Read more |
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Nvidia to launch 40nm GPU at the end of September, says paper Newswatch - Jul 7, 16:47 Nvidia expects to launch its new 40nm GeForce GT220 (GT216) and GeForce G210 (GT218) GPUs at the end of September 2009, according to a Chinese-language Commercial Times report citing sources from graphics card makers. Read more |
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TSMC processes over five million 12-inch wafers based on sub 0.13-micron nodes Jul 2, 14:21 Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has cumulatively shipped over five million 12-inch equivalent wafers of chips processed with sub 0.13-micron processes, according to company sources. The pure-play foundry is gearing up for volume production on the generic 32nm node in the fourth quarter of 2009, and on track to deliver its 28nm process technology by 2010, the sources said. Read more |
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TSMC, UMC expected to see narrower on-year revenue drops in June Jul 1, 12:08 Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) will continue to see narrower on-year revenue drops for June, showing signs of gradual chip recovery, according to market watchers. Read more |
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TSMC 40nm yields expected to pick up in August Jun 19, 16:18 Yields of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's (TSMC's) 40nm process will not see any significant improvement until August 2009, according to sources at graphics card makers. Read more |
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TSMC continuing 12-inch fab expansion Jun 9, 15:56 Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is continuing to expand its 12-inch wafer foundry capacity, aiming at an 11% increase from 2008 and to account for 42% of its aggregate foundry capacity by the end of 2009, according to industry sources. Read more |
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Computex 2009: TSMC and AMD celebrate ramp of 40nm chips Newswatch - Jun 4, 14:29 John Wei, platform marketing manager at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), on June 3 attended a press event hosted by AMD to co-announce a successful ramp of AMD's new graphics chip, the RV870, on the foundry's 40nm process node. Read more |
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Nvidia's 5-year plan coming to fruition as GPU compute goes mainstream, Q&A with Ujesh Desai, vice president of product marketing Jun 2, 11:55 Nvidia built its name around satisfying PC gamers' desire for better graphics, higher resolutions, and higher frame rates, from one GPU generation to the next. But around five years ago the Santa Clara-based chipmaker started looking beyond just 3D performance to a future where GPUs could be used for more than just rendering graphics. Read more |
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TSMC on track to enter production at 28nm May 25, 11:34 Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is set to unveil Reference Flow 10.0 for the 28nm process at the upcoming Design Automation Conference (DAC) in July 2009, according to industry sources. The world's top contract chipmaker is expected to deliver its 28nm process as a full node technology on schedule. Read more |
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Nvidia to increase 40nm orders with TSMC for 2009 May 20, 15:53 Nvidia has moved to scale up its orders for 40nm graphics chips at foundry partner Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) for 2009, according to sources at graphics card makers. The chip designer expects 40nm to account for 30% of its overall GPU shipments by the end of 2009. Read more |
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AMD to showcase new notebook platform at Computex 2009, says paper Newswatch - May 18, 12:07 AMD plans to showcase its new notebook platform (Tigris) at Computex 2009, according to a Chinese-language Commercial Times report. The new platform consists a 45nm dual-core Caspian CPU, RS880M chipsets, a 55nm or 40nm M9X GPU. Read more |
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TSMC may see 10% of sales from 40/45nm by year-end 2009 May 12, 16:53 Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is promoting the utilization of its 40nm and 45nm through expansion at its 12-inch facility. The pure-play foundry is expected to see the proportion of total revenues for the two processes reach 8-10% by the end of 2009, and climb further to 15-20% in the second quarter of 2010, according to market observers. Read more |
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AMD launches a new 40nm GPU and a dual-core Athlon Black Edition CPU Apr 29, 17:04 AMD has launched the ATI Radeon HD 4770 graphics processor that harnesses a 40nm manufacturing process for the desktop PC market, delivering performance and energy efficiency at anticipated launch prices as low as US$99. Read more |
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TSMC spends NT$20 billion on 40nm equipment Apr 22, 12:08 Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has spent a total of NT$20 billion (US$590 million) on new equipment since the end of February to expand the 40nm node at its 12-inch facility, sources at semiconductor equipment makers have revealed. Read more |
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TSMC speeds up 12-inch fab expansion Apr 13, 14:51 Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has completed fourth-phase expansion to its 12-inch facility, Fab 12, at the Hsinchu Science Park (HSP), where production at the 40nm and 45nm nodes takes place, according to equipment makers. The recently-expanded capacity will kick off operations at an initial output of 1,000-2,000 wafers. Read more |
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UMC announces delivery of 40nm logic ICs Apr 9, 10:06 United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) has announced that it has begun delivering customer ICs produced on advanced 40nm process technology. The products were manufactured with satisfactory cycle time and yields for the large die-size programmable logic chips, which leveraged the foundry's triple-gate oxide, 12 metal layers and copper/low-k technology to enable 65% reduced power consumption, and more than twice the density improvement over previous 65nm generation products, the company said. Read more |
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TSMC and UMC see rising orders for AMD GPUs for 2Q09, says paper Newswatch - Mar 19, 16:56 Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) have landed combined orders of 30,000 wafers (12-inch equivalent) for new AMD graphics processors, which are slated to launch by the second quarter of 2009, the Chinese-language Commercial Times has reported. Read more |
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Samsung brings 40nm to 8Gb NAND production Mar 11, 11:53 Samsung Electronics has recently announced that it has begun using 40nm process technology to produce an 8Gb Flex-OneNAND fusion memory chip, which supports both single-level cell (SLC) and multi-level cell (MLC) architectures. Read more |
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CeBIT 2009: AMD launches 40nm GPUs for notebook market Mar 5, 12:34 AMD has announced the launch of 40nm-based GPUs - the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4860 and 4830. These GPUs support the latest Microsoft DirectX 10.1 games, HD quality multimedia display, and energy-efficient features for long battery life. Read more |
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Gearing up for 28nm FPGA: Q&A with Altera CEO John Daane Mar 2, 15:10 Although the global semiconductor industry will continue to decline this year, Altera is confident of its performance in 2009. The company will maintain strong relationships with foundries for development of next-generation 28nm FPGA chips this year, John Daane, CEO of Altera, noted in a recent interview with Digitimes. Read more |
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