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Wednesday 31 August 2022
First 3nm smartphone chips to be available in 2H23
Smartphones powered by 3nm application processors (AP) are unlikely to hit market shelves until the second half of 2023, according to industry sources.
Wednesday 31 August 2022
TSMC still holds dominant share of 5nm foundry process market, says CEO
TSMC's 5nm process has entered the third year of mass production, and the foundry continues to hold a dominant share of the 5nm process segment, said company CEO CC Wei at a tech...
Wednesday 31 August 2022
TSMC to boost advanced packaging capacity by 2026
TSMC expects to scale up its advanced packaging production capacity in 2022, which will be 300% greater than that in 2018, and to further boost the output by 2026 thanks to the commercialization...
Tuesday 30 August 2022
AMD launches 5nm desktop processors
AMD has launched what the company claims is the world's first 5nm desktop PC processors combined with its new AMD Socket AM5 platform.
Tuesday 30 August 2022
IC design houses under growing pressure to cut prices
IC design houses are under growing pressure to cut further their chip prices, while still being engaged in negotiations with foundries on adjustments to the already-set manufacturing...
Tuesday 30 August 2022
Nvidia mulls TSMC SoIC tech in HPC chips
Nvidia is working closely with TSMC to manufacture its top-end processors, considering the adoption of the foundry's 3D SoIC (system on integrated chips) technology in its HPC chip...
Monday 29 August 2022
TSMC, UMC to see 22/28nm chips capacity fully loaded till end-year
TSMC and UMC will see full capacity utilization for 22/28nm processes persist at least throughout 2022, as their capacities vacated by some consumer chip clients are soon filled by...
Monday 29 August 2022
Robust sub-7nm chip demand buoys Alchip 1H22 profits
Robust sub-7nm chip demand buoyed IC design service company Alchip Technologies' profit performance in the first half of 2022, when the company saw sales for HPC processor orders...
Thursday 25 August 2022
Industrial cybersecurity market scale to top US$30 billion by 2028
The industrial cybersecurity market scale is estimated to grow sharply to US$30 billion by 2028 from the current level of US$1.0 billion, driven by ever-increasing demand from the...
Thursday 25 August 2022
AMD to ramp up 5nm wafer starts at TSMC in 2H22
AMD is poised to become the second largest customer of TSMC's 5nm process platform in the second half of 2022, as the CPU vendor will be ramping up 5nm wafer starts at the foundry,...
Wednesday 24 August 2022
Sensor backend specialists gearing up for metaverse device boom
Sensor backend specialists, such as VisEra Technologies and Xintec, are gearing up for a metaverse device demand boom.
Tuesday 23 August 2022
TSMC to see 3nm chip output contribute to revenue substantially in 1H23
TSMC will soon move 3nm process technology to volume production, but the process is unlikely to generate revenue substantially until at least first-quarter 2023, according to industry...
Tuesday 23 August 2022
GF to raise prices for some foundry processes in 2023
GlobalFoundries (GF) plans to raise prices for some of its manufacturing processes by up to 8% in 2023, according to sources at IC design houses.
Monday 22 August 2022
Why I love electronics industry (8): Leadership
Some individual persons or groups may be well-known internationally, such as film director Ang Lee and the Cloud Gate Dance Theatre. But it is the semiconductor industry, which has...
Monday 22 August 2022
AMD seen not to hike prices for mainstream core chips for PCs
Intel has disclosed plans to hike its CPU prices by 10-20% starting October, but AMD is not expected to follow suit amid the waning terminal market demand, according to industry so...