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Wednesday 30 September 2009
TSMC to see better-than-expected 4Q09
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is expected to see revenues for the fourth quarter remain flat or increase by low single-digits sequentially, according to market...
Tuesday 29 September 2009
Former TSMC R&D executive joins Samsung
Samsung Electronics has employed Mong-Song Liang, who formerly served as senior director of the Logic Technology Platform Division at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC),...
Tuesday 29 September 2009
TSMC veteran resumes R&D helm
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) on September 28 announced the appointment of Shang-Yi Chiang, a former TSMC vice president of R&D, as its senior VP of R&D...
Monday 28 September 2009
TSMC recruiting staff for PV business
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has taken a further step in developing its new photovoltaic (PV) business by recruiting PV technical staff, including engineers in...
Monday 28 September 2009
AppliedMicro-TSMC partner on embedded processors
Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (AppliedMicro, formerly AMCC) and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) have jointly announced a collaboration enabling AppliedMicro's...
Friday 25 September 2009
TSMC to ramp capacity at Fab 14 for Intel Atom opportunity
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has scheduled a ramp up of monthly capacity at its 300mm (12-inch) wafer fab (Fab 14) located in southern Taiwan at the Tainan Science...
Friday 25 September 2009
MediaTek to shift to 45nm in 1Q10
MediaTek plans to leap to 45nm processing for 3G chips in the first quarter of 2010 despite that volume production of 65nm WCDMA chips is scheduled to begin in the fourth quarter...
Tuesday 22 September 2009
TSMC, UMC tracking carbon footprint
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has announced progress towards building its green supply chain to support the Taiwan government's carbon emission reduction policy,...
Monday 21 September 2009
Altera to maintain TSMC relationship; does not rule out opportunities for additional foundry partnerships in future
When recently asked if Altera ruled out the possibility of partnering with more foundries in the future for low-cost chip production, Ying Chen, country manager, Altera Taiwan reiterated...
Friday 18 September 2009
Nvidia CEO to visit Taiwan in October, to discuss 40nm contract prices with TSMC
Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang will travel to Taiwan in the second half of October to meet with its motherboard and graphics card partners. Huang is also expected to hold talks with Taiwan...
Thursday 17 September 2009
TSMC reportedly eyeing Lumileds and Toyoda Gosei to enter LED market
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is reportedly looking to acquire LED makers Philips Lumileds or Toyoda Gosei for key LED patents to enter the LED market, according...
Thursday 17 September 2009
VisEra announces new LED packaging technology
VisEra Technologies, a subsidiary of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), has announced a new high-power LED packaging technology based on 8-inch silicon wafer, which...
Wednesday 16 September 2009
Kionix remains open to outsourcing in Taiwan
MEMS accelerometer (g-sensor) supplier Kionix will not rule out the possibility of outsourcing the production of ASIC chips to capable foundry chipmakers, according to vice president...
Friday 11 September 2009
China market: Foundry chipmakers calling for extensions on tax exemption
Seven foundry chipmakers have jointly submitted a letter to China's municipal governments requesting the further extension of a temporary tax exemption policy, according to a various...
Friday 11 September 2009
TSMC to process more 12-inch wafers on 45/40nm in 4Q09
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is expected to process more 12-inch wafers on 45/40nm processes in the fourth quarter of 2009, with monthly output to ramp up by...