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Friday 13 November 2015
MediaTek Helio X30 chips to be built by TSMC
MediaTek will unveil its Helio X30-series SoC chips in early 2016 with volume production slated for the end of the second quarter or early in the third. The X30-series will be built...
Thursday 15 October 2015
TSMC rolls out low-cost version of 16nm FinFET
TSMC has quietly rolled out a compact, low-power version of its 16nm FinFET fabrication process - 16nm FinFET Compact (16FFC). With the availability of three series of its 16nm FinFET...
Thursday 15 October 2015
Samsung eyeing 14nm chip orders from HiSilicon
Samsung Electronics is offering HiSilicon Technologies lower prices for its 14nm FinFET production in a bid to vie for mobile chip orders from the China-based fabless vendor, according...
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.
Thursday 17 September 2015
Cadence announces IP portfolio for TSMC 10nm FinFET process
Cadence Design Systems has announced an intellectual property (IP) portfolio for TSMC's 10nm FinFET (N10) process. Cadence has already secured multiple design wins with this portfolio...
Wednesday 16 September 2015
eMemory announces verified NeoFuse OTP IP in 16nm FinFET Plus process
Taiwan-based eMemory has announced the availability of its One-Time Programmable (OTP) NeoFuse technology in a mainstream 16nm FinFET Plus process, as well as the development and verification...
Tuesday 25 August 2015
Taiwan top court rules in favor of TSMC in lawsuit against ex-R&D director
Taiwan's top court has ruled in favor of TSMC in a trade secret case against Liang Mong-song, a former senior director of R&D at TSMC. Liang has been accused of revealing TSMC's...
Monday 24 August 2015
TSMC growing its 16nm client base
Foundry chipmaker TSMC has been actively pursuing 16nm FinFET chip orders in order to gain a majority of market share in the FinFET segment starting 2016, according to market sourc...
Friday 7 August 2015
HLMC, MediaTek reportedly in talks about extending cooperation to FinFET chips
High-level executives of 12-inch foundry Shanghai Huali Microelectronics (HLMC) have recently paid a visit to MediaTek to discuss with the Taiwan-based smartphone chip vendor about...
Tuesday 4 August 2015
iPhone 5c successor to feature FinFET chips, say sources
Apple is not expected to launch a successor to the iPhone 5c this year, but will instead introduce its next-generation budget smartphones in second-quarter 2016 with the devices coming...
Friday 17 July 2015
TSMC says 10nm on schedule
TSMC has reiterated plans to move 10nm FinFET technology to risk production at the end of 2016, followed by mass production in the first quarter of 2017.
Thursday 16 July 2015
TSMC, Samsung start A9 chip mass production
TSMC and Samsung Foundry, which share orders for Apple's A9 application processors, have both started volume production of the chips, according to industry sources.
Tuesday 14 July 2015
Globalfoundries rolls out 22nm FD-SOI technology
Globalfoundries has announced the availability of a 22nm process technology platform developed specifically to meet the ultra-low-power requirements of next-generation connected devices...
Monday 22 June 2015
ARM, UMC team to tape out Cortex-A based 14nm FinFET chip
United Microelectronics (UMC) has announced that it is collaborating with ARM to tape out a process qualification vehicle (PQV) test chip on the foundry's 14nm FinFET technology to...
Wednesday 3 June 2015
Globalfoundries announces design infrastructure for 14nm FinFET process
In collaboration with design ecosystem partners, Globalfoundries has announced the availability of digital design flows for customers designing on its latest manufacturing technology...