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Monday 18 July 2016
TSMC secures exclusive orders for Apple A11 chip, says report
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has obtained all of Apple's A11 chip orders, according to a recent Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN) report.
Wednesday 13 July 2016
Intel certifies Cadence implementation and signoff tools for 10nm tri-gate process
Cadence Design Systems has announced that its implementation and signoff tools have been certified on the Intel third-generation 10nm tri-gate process for customers of Intel Custom...
Thursday 26 May 2016
TSMC to spend US$2.2 billion on R&D in 2016, says co-CEO
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) expects to boost its R&D spending to a record US$2.2 billion in 2016, increasing about 10% on year, according to company co-CEO...
Thursday 19 May 2016
ARM announces 10nm test chip
ARM has announced the first multicore, 64-bit ARMv8-A processor test chip based on TSMC's 10FinFET process technology. Simulation benchmarks show impressive power and efficiency gains...
Tuesday 10 May 2016
TSMC board approves US$4.1 billion for capacity expansion
The board of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has approved capital appropriations of approximately US$4.101 billion to expand capacity for advanced-node manufacturing,...
Friday 6 May 2016
TSMC begins tape-out of 10nm A11 chips for Apple
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has recently begun to tape out the design for Apple's A11 processor built on a 10nm FinFET process, according to industry sources.
Monday 25 April 2016
Competition in advanced process technologies market to heat up
Competition in the market for semiconductor advanced process technologies is expected to heat up, with Samsung Electronics and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) striving...
Friday 22 April 2016
TSMC orders equipment for NT$2.29 billion
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has purchased a batch of machinery equipment and intangible assets from Hermes Microvision (HMI), Fortrend Engineering, Kilopass...
Wednesday 6 April 2016
Samsung starts mass producing 10nm class DRAM
Samsung Electronics has begun mass producing 10nm-class, 8Gb DDR4 DRAM chips and modules derived from them, according to the company.
Thursday 17 March 2016
Cadence design tools certified for TSMC 7nm design starts and 10nm production
Cadence Design Systems has announced that its digital, signoff and custom/analog tools have achieved V1.0 Design Rule Manual (DRM) and SPICE certification from TSMC for its 10nm FinFET...
Monday 14 March 2016
Front-end fab equipment spending to rise 3.7% in 2016, says SEMI
Front-end fab equipment spending (including new, used and in-house) is projected to increase 3.7% to US$37.2 billion in 2016, and will rise another 13% in 2017 to US$42.1 billion,...
Friday 22 January 2016
Pure-play foundries put capex focus on 10nm processes, says Applied executive
The 2016 capex focus of pure-play IC foundries will be on 10nm process technology, according to Applied Materials Taiwan president Erix Yu. About half of the foundries' combined capex...
Monday 18 January 2016
TSMC expects to launch 5nm node 2 years after 7nm
TSMC will be ready to roll out its 5nm process technology two years after the launch of its 7nm node, according to the pure-play foundry.
Thursday 3 December 2015
Cadence unveils Virtuoso platform for 10nm processes
Cadence Design Systems has announced the delivery of the new Virtuoso advanced-node platform that is enabled for all 10nm FinFET designs. This next-generation custom design platform...
Friday 2 October 2015
Globalfoundries developing 10nm in-house
Globalfoundries plans to develop 10nm process technology in-house instead of relying on licensing from Samsung, according to industry sources.