Capex spending has been gaining momentum at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) recently, and total spending may surpass the company's budget of US$4.8 billion projected...
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) will take delivery of its first extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography system from ASML in 2011 paving the way for the company to...
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has provided positive guidance for the second quarter of 2010, and upwardly revised its forecast for 2010 global semiconductor and...
Samsung Electronics has announced what it claims is the industry's first production of 20nm-class NAND chips for use in Secure Digital (SD) memory cards and embedded memory solutions...
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) will be part of the industry's drive in the development of wafer manufacturing processes below 14nm, according to company chairman...
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has announced that it will skip the 22nm manufacturing process node and move directly to a 20nm technology, and TSMC is expected...
The appearance of Apple's iPad may create tight supply of NAND flash and delay the transition to solid-state drives (SSD) in PCs, according to sources from hard drive makers.
Silicon Motion Technology has seen the majority of controller chips it is shipping are for 40nm and 30nm NAND flash, according to company president and CEO Wallace Kou. The NAND flash...
Micron Technology captured a 9.4% share of the global NAND flash market in 2009, exceeding Hynix Semiconductor's share by 0.3pp points, according to DRAMeXchange. Samsung Electronics...
NAND flash prices will be driven down significantly in 2011, when major chip suppliers progress to 20nm-class processes, according to industry players and observers from Taiwan and...
Toshiba has announced development of a high-resolution photo-sensitive film (photoresist) essential for future application of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography in semiconductor...
Toshiba and its NAND flash partner SanDisk reportedly plan to begin mass producing NAND flash chips fabricated on 20nm-class process technology in the second half of 2010, according...
The high cost of semiconductor manufacturing equipment is making continued chip-making advancements too expensive to use for volume production, relegating Moore's Law to the laboratory...