TSMC Ramps Up 7nm Production On Time Over the past couple of years, TSMC has been making major investments in silicon production. Even with all the new fabs, however, not ...
June 27, 2018 at 10:58 am by Samuel Wan
AMD’s Zen 2 Planned For 2019 After AMD’s drought with Bulldozer, the company has come back with a vengeance. Last year, AMD released their new Ryzen processors. ...
May 3, 2018 at 10:53 am by Samuel Wan
Globalfoundries Promises Great Gains For 7nm In the near future, Globalfoundries will be pushing out production 7nm chips. As a result of increased investment and help from ...
March 19, 2018 at 7:54 am by Samuel Wan
Within the next year, most of the major silicon foundries will hit 10nm or lower. One of the foundries leading the charge is GlobalFoundires in partnership with Samsung and ...
July 3, 2017 at 8:33 am by Samuel Wan
Over the last couple of years, the mobile industry has taken the lead in adopting new process nodes, leaving the traditional CPUs and GPUs in their wake. Due to the ...
March 24, 2017 at 12:55 pm by Samuel Wan
One of the aspects that make semiconductor manufacturing unique is the long-term planning and research that goes into it. Companies often have to prepare for new process nodes ...
February 11, 2017 at 11:54 am by Samuel Wan
In a joint announcement by newly elected US President Donald Trump and Intel CEO Brian Krzanich at the White House, Intel is investing more than $7 billion USD towards the ...
February 8, 2017 at 11:00 pm by Ron Perillo
One of the things that never gets old with the tech industry is the crazy and wacky code names they come up with. Honestly, sometimes I have no idea how they come up with ...
October 2, 2016 at 10:42 am by Samuel Wan
Even though we’re getting closer and closer tot he end of silicon shrinking, the semiconductor foundries aren’t giving up just yet. TSMC, one of the few companies ...
October 1, 2016 at 10:51 am by Samuel Wan
Earlier in the year, we first got rumours about a massive AMD CPU. Codenamed Starship, the rumoured chip would feature up to 48 cores on the 7nm FinFET process with the latest ...
September 25, 2016 at 2:00 pm by Samuel Wan
Earlier in the month, a surprising rumour came out from GlobalFoundries future plans. According to the report, the semiconductor foundry was planning to jump straight from ...
September 19, 2016 at 8:40 am by Samuel Wan
Last year, Intel finally admitted to a major roadblock in their silicon manufacturing. Despite holding to the Tick-Tock strategy for the better part of a decade, the chip ...
September 17, 2016 at 5:00 pm by Samuel Wan
For mainstream CPUs and GPUs, being at the forefront of silicon is a crucial aspect of their competitiveness. With each new process node, power efficiency, density, and ...
September 12, 2016 at 9:55 am by Samuel Wan
Intel may have revised its plans to deliver a 7-nanometre process by 2020 or earlier, according to reports. A revised job listing for a Processor Designer at Intel’s new ...
September 5, 2016 at 4:44 pm by Ashley Allen
As part of the recent amendment to their Wafer Supply Agreement with Global Foundries, AMD has dropped some hints for their future plans. So far inextricably linked with their ...
September 5, 2016 at 9:40 am by Samuel Wan
