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TSMC Reportedly Planning a Second Fab in Japan
TSMC (Taiwan Semi-Conductor Manufacturing Company) is reportedly planning to invest in a second chip factory in Japan. Following a report from the Japanese newspaper Nikkan Kogyo TSMC is planning to set up a second semiconductor manufacturing plant in the southwestern region of Kumamoto in Japan. In total it is reported…
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TSMC On-Track for 5-nanometre Chips by 2019
While TSMC is following an aggressive roadmap for 7nm in 2017, the world’s largest contract chipmaker will also soon begin to make cutting edge 5-nanometre chips in small quantities by the first half of 2019, according to Co-Chief Executive Mark Liu. Speaking to attendants at a recent TSMC supplier meeting,…
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AMD Thinks Moore’s Law is Alive and Kicking
Despite recent claims to the contrary by rivals Intel, AMD has declared that Moore’s Law – the principle that computing power would double as processing technology shrinks – is far from dead. AMD’s Chief Technical Officer Mark Papermaster believes that Moore’s Law still applies and that anyone who thinks otherwise…
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GlobalFoundries Seals IBM Deal
GlobalFoundries has been given the all-clear to complete its purchase of IBM’s chips division, in a deal worth $1.5 billion. An off-shoot of AMD, GlobalFoundries was founded in 2009 on the back of massive funding from the Advanced Technology Investment Company, the tech investment arm of the Abu Dhabi government.…
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Chip Company FTDI Silently Bricking Clone Chips
Chip manufacturer FTDI has admitted that a silent update they issued has been used to brick clones of their FGTI FT232 chips. The FT232 is an extremely common chip found in various electronic devices, therefore some clones are most certainly present through different manufacturers. Unfortunately for us, the 99%, there’s…
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IBM Pay $1.5B to Remove Chip Manufacturing Headache
IBM has just secured a deal with Globalfoundries Inc. to offload their chip-manufacturing unit for a cool $1.5 billion today. The news has been leaked by “two people with knowledge of the matter” and comes around the same time that IBM released an announcement telling all to watch out for a…
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Foxconn Planning To Release Their Own 14nm Chips On The Consumer Market
Foxconn is reportedly making preparations to enter the chip market with its own products. The giant, which makes chips for other companies such as Apple, BlackBerry, Sony etc., is willing to acquire Socle technology through which Foxconn is expected to deliver chips on the consumer market. A chip manufacturer itself,…
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Google Might Head Into The ARM Chip Business In The Near Future
Google already has its own smartphones, tablets, the operating system to power them all, and the best search engine to go with it, but it seems it’s not enough. According to Bloomberg, Google is thinking about designing its own processors using ARM technology. The news comes from a source with…
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MediaTek To Shift Its Focus To Tablet SoC and LTE Enabled Chips In 2014
MediaTek is planning to shift its target to the tablet SoCs and LTE enabled chipsets for smartphones next year. According to TelecomTiger(via Fudzilla), MediaTek general manager of international sales and marketing Finbarr Moynihan said the company wants to “democratize” smartphones and bring them to new markets. He noted that five…
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DRAM Production Will be Limited During 2013 to 2014 Says Micron
Micron, one of the top 3 manufacturers and suppliers of dynamic access memory chips claimed that there will still be limited production of memory chips throughout 2013 and 2014, therefore one shouldn’t expect cheap memory kits in the near future. Mark Durcan, Chief executive of Micron said during a conference…
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