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Tuesday 15 November 2011
eMemory Technology wins TSMC IP Partner Award for second year straight
eMemory Technology, a Taiwan-based provider of embedded non-volatile memory silicon IP and technology, on November 14 announced that it has won 2011 IP Partner Award from Taiwan Semiconductor...
Monday 14 November 2011
STATS ChipPAC to open new wafer-level packaging plant in Taiwan, says paper
STATS ChipPAC is scheduled to hold an inauguration ceremony for a 12-inch wafer bumping and wafer-level packaging plant in Hsinchu County, northern Taiwan, Thursday (November 17),...
Thursday 10 November 2011
TSMC October sales up 13%
Foundry chipmaker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has reported a sequential 12.6% growth in consolidated revenues for October 2011.
Wednesday 9 November 2011
TSMC board passes budget for advanced capacity expansion
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's (TSMC) board of directors on November 8 approved a capex appropriation of US$1.06 billion specifically for increasing advanced technology...
Wednesday 2 November 2011
IC orders for smartphones, tablets growing
Qualcomm, MediaTek, Nvidia and Spreadtrum Communications have all increased their wafer starts at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) to meet anticipated demand for...
Thursday 27 October 2011
TSMC sees 3-5% chip market growth in 2012; 28nm plays company growth driver
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's (TSMC) sales growth will continue to outperform the industry average in 2012, company chairman and CEO Morris Chang said at an investors...
Thursday 27 October 2011
Xilinx shipping new FPGA built on TSMC 28nm process
Xilinx has announced the first shipments of its Virtex-7 2000T FPGA, the first product using 2.5D IC stacked packaging technology. The chip is built on TSMC's 28nm HPL (low power...
Thursday 27 October 2011
TSMC suing former R&D executive
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has confirmed recent speculation that the company is suing Mong-Song Liang, a former R&D executive. The company said it is unable...
Wednesday 26 October 2011
Morris Chang calls for more government support for Taiwan semiconductor sector
Morris Chang, chairman and CEO of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), has urged the Taiwan government to do more to support the local semiconductor industry, in the...
Monday 24 October 2011
TSMC ramps volume production of 28nm process
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) announced that its 28nm process is in volume production, and production wafers have been shipped to customers including Altera, AMD...
Wednesday 19 October 2011
Heavyweight newcomers to accelerate solar market transformation
Solar firms have been facing low demand in 2011. As marginalization continues to weed out firms that are less competitive, many non-solar industry leading corporations have been eyeing...
Wednesday 19 October 2011
ARM, TSMC tape out first 20nm ARM Cortex-A15 multi-core processor
ARM and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) announced October 18 that they have taped out the first 20nm ARM Cortex-A15 MPCore processor. The two companies completed...
Monday 17 October 2011
TSMC promises no layoffs, plans pay raises for 2012
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) will raise its employees' base salaries in 2012, said chairman and CEO Morris Chang at a company event on October 15. Chang did not...
Monday 17 October 2011
TSMC Solar readies new CIGS fab
TSMC Solar, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, has announced that it recently completed equipment move-in in preparation for commercial production...
Friday 14 October 2011
Digitimes Research: Apple portable devices spur competition and technology advances
The success of Apple's iOS devices has reshaped the landscape of the consumer electronics industry and triggered a sales boom of portable CE products. The wave of Apple product demand...