156 news items tagged 16nm
TSMC to start production of 16nm process products in 2Q15
Friday 17 October 2014Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) will begin volume production of 16nm FinFET process products in the second quarter or early third quarter of 2015, according to company...
Alchip to build Bitcoin mining ASICs on 16nm process in 2015
Thursday 9 October 2014Alchip Technologies, a leading fabless IC design house specializing in Bitcoin mining ASICs, plans to migrate to a 16nm process in 2015 from the current 28nm process. Alchip has been...
TSMC, ARM announce silicon validation of ARM Cortex CPUs on 16nm FinFET process
Wednesday 1 October 2014Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and ARM have jointly announced the results from a key FinFET silicon validation of the ARM big.LITTLE implementation, using ARM Cortex-A57...
TSMC releases networking processors based on 16nm FinFET
Friday 26 September 2014Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has announced the successful production of ARM-based networking processors using its advanced 16nm FinFET foundry technology through...
TSMC to start 16nm volume production in 1Q15, says report
Monday 25 August 2014Taiwan Semiconductor Mnufacturing Company (TSMC) will advance volume production on its 16nm process to the first quarter of 2015 with monthly output of 50,000 wafers in order to meet...
Huawei to become first client for TSMC 16nm FinFET process
Tuesday 15 July 2014China-based smartphone vendor Huawei is likely to be the first client for Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's 16nm FinFET process node, according to industry sources.
TSMC to speed up development of 10nm process
Wednesday 9 July 2014Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) plans to speed up the development of its 10nm process to fend off competition from Samsung Electronics, which reportedly has landed...
TSMC to operate at full capacity in 2H14
Tuesday 24 June 2014Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) will operate at full capacity in the third and fourth quarters, with revenues generated from 20nm processes to account for 10% of...
TSMC to host Taiwan Technology Symposium on May 29
Wednesday 28 May 2014Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) will hold its Taiwan Technology Symposium 2014 on May 29, with the agenda of the annual event to focus on current production of 20nm...
TSMC, Samsung competing to roll out more advanced processes
Thursday 15 May 2014Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and Samsung Electronics are competing to bring more advanced processes to the market, with TSMC eager to promote its 16nm FinFET...
TSMC likely to launch 16nm FinFET+ process at year-end 2014
Monday 31 March 2014Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is likely to add two more advanced processes to its 16nm process portfolio in order to compete with the 14nm nodes to be released...
TSMC mobile chip sales to grow more than 35% in 2014, says Morris Chang
Friday 17 January 2014TSMC's revenues generated from the mobile device sector are expected to increase more than 35% in 2014, buoyed by the rising popularity of smartphones and tablets, and rising silicon...
TSMC moves 16nm FinFET to risk production
Thursday 12 December 2013TSMC's 16nm FinFET has entered risk production, with volume production scheduled to kick off within one year, according to the foundry chipmaker. Newly-appointed co-CEO Mark Liu said...
SK Hynix starts full-scale mass production of 16nm NAND flash
Wednesday 20 November 2013SK Hynix has started full-scale mass production of 16nm 64-gigabit (Gb) MLC NAND flash chips, according to the South Korea-based memory chipmaker.
TSMC to spend record budget on R&D in 2013
Thursday 3 October 2013Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's (TSMC) R&D spending, which reached almost NT$40 billion (US$1.36 billion) in 2012, is expected to hit another all-time high in 2013,...
Skyera adopts SK Hynix 16nm NAND flash for enterprise storage systems
Friday 30 August 2013Skyera has selected 16nm NAND flash from SK Hynix for use in its new skyEagle all-flash enterprise storage array, according to the provider of enterprise solid-state storage system...
Micron sampling 16nm, 128Gb NAND
Wednesday 17 July 2013Micron Technology has announced the sampling of its 16nm, 128Gb MLC NAND flash memory devices, designed for applications like SSDs, USB drives and flash memory cards, tablets, ultra-thin...
TSMC reaches deal with Apple to supply 20nm, 16nm and 10nm chips, sources claim
Monday 24 June 2013Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and its IC design service partner Global UniChip have secured a three-year agreement with Apple to supply foundry services for the...
TSMC to post record earnings and sales for 2013, says Chang
Thursday 13 June 2013Judging from the current order visibility, Morris Chang, chairman and CEO of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), expects the foundry's performance in the second half...
Xilinx, TSMC team up for 16nm FinFET FPGAs
Wednesday 29 May 2013Xilinx and TSMC have jointly announced that they are teaming up to create FPGAs built using 16nm FinFET process technology.
TSMC to budget US$1.5 billion for R&D expenditure
Friday 10 May 2013Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has unveiled plans to invest a record US$1.5 billion on research and development in 2013. The spending remains focused on maintaining...
Only 4 IC foundries to compete in advanced process market, says Globalfoundries
Thursday 25 April 2013There will be just a few major semiconductor companies engaged in the foundry industry, and only four players able to compete in the advanced 1Xnm process market segment, according...
TSMC 16nm FinFET to enter mass production within one year after 20nm ramp-up, says Chang
Thursday 18 April 2013TSMC's 16nm FinFET process will enter mass production in less than one year after ramping up production of 20nm chips, company chairman and CEO Morris Chang said at an investors meeting...
TSMC tapes out first 16nm FinFET test chips
Tuesday 2 April 2013ARM and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) have jointly announced the first tape-out of a Cortex-A57 processor on FinFET process technology.
Imagination, TSMC extend collaboration to FinFET and 3D ICs
Tuesday 26 March 2013Imagination Technologies and contract chipmaker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) have announced the next phase of their technology collaboration.
- TSMC tips 7+, 12, 22nm nodes (Mar 16) - EE Times
- Intel's still ahead of the pack in chip process, says Linley Group (Nov 25) - Barron's
- Nvidia CEO says 16nm Pascal yields are good (May 16) - Motley Fool
- Chip inventory corrected, demand weak, says BlueFin (Mar 22) - Barron's
- LG Nuclun 2 enters production using Intel 14nm And TSMC 16nm technologies (Nov 25) - Tech Times
- TSMC's A9 chip outperforming Samsung's in early iPhone 6s battery benchmarks (Oct 7) - Mac Rumors
- AMD contracts TSMC to produce Zen at 16nm amidst concerns over 14nm woes at Globalfoundries (Sep 24) - WCCF Tech
- How can TSMC overcome a smartphone slowdown? (Jun 22) - Motley Fool
- Nvidia says TSMC is still primary partner for 16nm, 10nm production (May 11) - TweakTown
- eMemory NeoFuse technology is verified in 16nm FinFET process (May 5) - Company release