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Thursday 14 July 2011
eMemory offers eNVM IP in TSMC 80nm HV technology
Embedded non-volatile memory (eNVM) silicon IP developer eMemory Technology has announced that its one-time programmable memory, NeoBit, has been qualified in TSMC's 80nm high-voltage...
Wednesday 13 July 2011
TSMC reiterates plans to commercially produce 28nm chips later in 2011
Pure-play foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has said that its plans to start commercial production of chips using 28nm process this year remains unchanged...
Tuesday 12 July 2011
Global Unichip seeing demand for 65nm and below processes rise
Global Unichip has esimated that products requiring 65nm and below processing rose to account for more than 50% of its revenues in the second quarter, up from 45% in the first. The...
Monday 11 July 2011
Focus on advanced processes: Q&A with Alchip chairman Kinying Kwan
Founded in 2003 by semiconductor veterans from Silicon Valley and Japan, Alchip provides silicon design and manufacturing services for companies developing complex and high-volume...
Friday 8 July 2011
TSMC 2Q11 sales meet guidance
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has reported NT$36.67 billion (US$1.28 billion) in consolidated revenues for June 2011, down 0.1% on month but up 0.9% on year. The...
Friday 8 July 2011
Planned launch of Nvidia 28nm and 22/20nm GPUs moved back to 2012 and 2014
Despite Nvidia CEO Huang Jen-hsun previously saying that the company is set to announce its new 28nm GPU architecture at the end of 2011 and 22/20nm in 2013, sources from graphics...
Friday 8 July 2011
Chip inventories swell in 2Q11, says IHS iSuppli
Semiconductor inventory levels at chip suppliers worldwide are believed to have risen for the seventh consecutive month in a row in the second quarter of 2011, as the industry rebuilds...
Thursday 7 July 2011
TSMC to lose Liang, says paper
Mong-Song Liang will resign from the faculty of National Tsinghua University (Hsinchu, northern Taiwan) at the end of July, and is ready for his new career at Korea-based Samsung...
Thursday 30 June 2011
OmniVision to buy wafer-level lens manufacturing unit from JV
OmniVision Technologies has announced plans to buy the wafer-level lens production operations from VisEra Technologies, its joint venture with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company...
Friday 24 June 2011
Orders for tablets to account for 3% of TSMC 2011 revenues, says paper
Orders for chips for tablet PCs are likely to contribute only a small percentage to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's (TSMC) consolidated revenues in 2011, and even 2012,...
Thursday 23 June 2011
Freescale unveils 28nm QorIQ multicore processors
Freescale Semiconductor has unveiled its next-generation QorIQ multicore platform built on 28nm technology – the AMP (advanced multiprocessing) series – which incorporates...
Thursday 23 June 2011
TSMC 2Q11 sales expected to meet guidance
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's (TSMC) consolidated revenues are expected to meet the company's guidance of NT$109-111 billion (US$3.8-3.9 billion), according to market...
Wednesday 22 June 2011
TSMC, UMC likely to lower capex budgets for 2011, says paper
Taiwan's two foundry giants are likely to revise downward their capex goals for 2011 due to worries that orders in the second half of the year may not be large enough to fill their...
Tuesday 21 June 2011
British, Taiwan solar firms to hold seminar
The British Trade and Cultural Office (BTCO) in Taiwan will be holding "UK Solar PV Market Development Seminar" in Taiwan on June 21. The purpose of the seminar is to introduce...
Monday 20 June 2011
Foundries seeing slower growth in wafer starts for 3Q11, say sources
Contract chipmakers Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) have seen their clients cut back on wafer starts for the third...