AMD is set to launch its latest A series APUs codenamed Trinity in May and will initially only release models for notebooks with models for desktops to wait until August, while the...
IC design service provider Global Unichip and Synopsys, an EDA and IP company, have jointly announced the tape out of 30 customer devices during the past four years using a combination...
United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) has announced operating profits declined 45.3% sequentially to NT$840 million (US$28.5 million) in the fourth quarter of 2011 with revenues...
Non-volatile memory (NVM) IP vendor Kilopass Technology and United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) have expanded their existing manufacturing license deal, according to the companies...
IC design service provider Global Unichip is expected to report 15-20% sequential growth in revenues for the third quarter of 2011, as orders for 65nm and 40nm non-recurring engineering...
Following a drop of 14.2% in the first quarter of 2011, the global average decline in pricing for DRAM slowed to 12% in the second quarter, according to IHS. The rate of decrease...
Elpida Memory has announced what it claims is the DRAM industry's first-ever use of high-k metal gate (HKMG) technology to develop a 2-gigabit DDR2 Mobile RAM (LPDDR2) at the 40nm-class...
Acer has recently placed orders for 80,000 Z series APUs from AMD for use in tablet PCs, targeting the enterprise market, according to sources from upstream component makers. However,...
AMD, at its press conference at Computex 2011, announced a new 40nm Z series APU codenamed Desna to target the tablet PC market, according to Rick Bergman, Senior Vice President and...
Commenting on the tablet PC market, Nvidia CEO Huang Jen-hsun, at a company's press conference in Taiwan, pointed out that consumers do not care whether their products use x86- or...
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has reported sales of NT$105.38 billion (US$3.6 billion) and net income of NT$36.28 billion, or NT$1.40 per share, for the first...
Nvidia is set to participate Computex 2011, which will be held in Taipei, Taiwan, from May 31 to June 4, and will set up booths at exhibit halls showcasing its latest products, while...
ProMOS Technologies and Rexchip Electronics have announced growth in February 2011 revenues from the previous month, joining fellow DRAM companies Nanya Technology and Powerchip Technology...
Several years ago there was a widely accepted expectation that application mobile processors would be fully integrated with baseband processors on a single chip. However, today we...
AMD has recently expanded its 40nm chip orders to foundry house Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and is hoping to secure all new capacity from TSMC's 12-inch fab,...
