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Friday 29 April 2022
Samsung claims advanced foundry yields stabilizing
Samsung Electronics' foundry business achieved its highest-ever first-quarter sales, thanks to solid demand from all applications and improvements in the yields of the advanced process,...
Friday 29 April 2022
MA-tek enjoys robust chip analysis orders for advanced processes
IC analysis and certification lab Material Analysis Technology (MA-tek) continues to enjoy a rapid rise in analysis demand for sub-7nm chips, particularly 3/2nm process now under...
Friday 29 April 2022
China firms eyeing close partnerships with TSMC
Xiaomi, Oppo, Bitmain Technologies, and AI processor startup Horizon Robotics are all eyeing close partnerships with TSMC to satisfy their growing demand, particularly that for sub-5nm...
Friday 22 April 2022
TSMC sets timetable to commercialize 2nm GAA process in 2025
TSMC has set a timetable to move its 2nm GAA process to production in 2025 while commercializing its 3nm FinFET process with improved yield rates in the second half of 2022, with...
Thursday 21 April 2022
Samsung hits snag in 3nm process, yet posing new challenges to TSMC
Poor 3nm GAA process yield performance is deemed as a major setback for Samsung Electronics in its advanced foundry technology race with TSMC, which may dash the Korean tech giant's...
Monday 18 April 2022
Samsung 3nm GAA process yield still far behind target
Samsung Electronics' 3nm GAA process yield rates reportedly are still far behind the chip vendor's target.
Friday 15 April 2022
TSMC on track to move 3nm process to volume production in 2H22
TSMC is on track to move 3nm process technology to volume production in the second half of this year, according to company CEO CC Wei, who also reiterated the foundry's plans to launch...
Thursday 14 April 2022
TSMC expects another quarter of record revenue in 2Q22
TSMC expects to post revenues of between US$17.6 billion and US$18.2 billion in the second quarter of 2022, which is a 1.9% sequential increase at the midpoint. Gross margin and operating...
Thursday 24 March 2022
Samsung, Intel keen to take slices of foundry market from TSMC
Samsung Electronics and Intel have both stepped up efforts to expand their respective foundry businesses, eyeing bigger slices of the global foundry market particularly in the advanced...
Wednesday 23 March 2022
TSMC to scale up 5nm chip shipments in 3Q22
TSMC is expected to scale up its 5nm chip shipments to 150,000 wafers monthly in the third quarter of 2022 from about 120,000 units at present, according to sources at semiconductor...
Friday 18 March 2022
Samsung responds to Galaxy smartphone throttling, poor sub-5nm foundry yields
Samsung Electronics has made an unusual move by responding to its negative rumors - one about the Game Optimisation Service (GOS) app on the Galaxy S22 series; and the other regarding...
Friday 11 March 2022
Silicon IP provider M31 expects up to 20% revenue increase in 2022
Taiwan-based silicon IP provider M31 Technology expects its revenue in US dollar terms to grow 15-20% in 2022, thanks to robust demand from its foundry and fabless customers.
Thursday 10 March 2022
Apple orders account for 26% of TSMC 2021 revenue
TSMC saw revenue generated from orders placed by its largest customer climb about 20% on year to NT$405.4 billion (US$14.3 billion) in 2021, or nearly 26% of the foundry's total wafer...
Thursday 24 February 2022
Qualcomm seeking 3nm process capacity from TSMC
Qualcomm reportedly plans to contract TSMC to make all its processors demanding 3nm process manufacturing.
Friday 24 December 2021
TSMC to move 3nm process to commercial production in 4Q22
TSMC is expected to kick off commercial production of chips built using more-advanced 3nm process technology in the fourth quarter of 2022, with the initial capacity to be equally...