As foundries will likely suffer a utilization rate of less than 40% in the first quarter of 2009, orders for new lithography tools are currently limited, according to a Chinese-language...

UMC has announced that it has manufactured the foundry industry's first fully functional 28nm SRAM chips. The chips are based on UMC's independently developed low-leakage (LL) process...

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has announced that it plans to deliver its 28nm process as a full node technology offering the option of both high-k metal gate...

IBM, Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing, Samsung Electronics and ARM have announced they will develop a comprehensive 32nm Systems-on-a-Chip (SoCs) design platform based on high-k...