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Chinese Fab SMIC Will Start 14nm Production in 2019
SMIC Will Deliver 14nm SoC in 1H 2019 When it comes to major processor fabs, Intel, Samsung, TSMC, GlobalFoundries and IBM are the leaders. Over the years, the various smaller fabs have consolidated into these giants. Due to the massive expense and expertise involved, even these fabs have troubles sometimes…
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TSMC’s 7nm Largest Share of Firm Revenue
TSMC Sees Strong 7nm Uptake As we head into 2019, TSMC is set to lead the way with the latest process nodes. Along with Samsung, the company is leading the way forward with the new 7nm process. As silicon gets harder to manufacture, fewer customers are taking up the new…
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Intel May Be Killing Custom Fab Business
Intel Custom Foundry May Be No More Nearly 5 years ago, Intel made a surprising announcement. After decades of only allowing their cutting-edge fabs to be used in-house, the company started up a custom foundry business. By opening up its fabs, the company hoped to better utilize them and recoup…
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Foxconn Building New Chip Fab In China
Foxconn Finally Moves Into Silicon Fab Bussiness Even as the silicon market has consolidated over the past couple of years, new entrants are still lining up. The latest to join the competitive industry appears to be Foxconn. Apple’s iPhone are the companies most well-known product. The company also does work for many other…
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TSMC Cleared to Start New 3nm Fab in Taiwan
TSMC Approved To Build New 3nm Fab To keep up with increasing demand, all the silicon manufacturers are expanding their operations. As one of the leading third-party fab, TSMC is seeing a lot of new business. Furthermore, in order to keep up with customer demands, the Taiwanese firm is building a number of…
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Intel Spinning Up Additional Production Capacity
Intel Planning Global Capacity Increases Over the past couple of months, an ongoing story is the Intel shortage. After delays to the 10nm process, the 14nm process supply has become bogged down. In order to meet customer demand, the company has been investing a lot into new fabs and production capacity.…
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TSMC Reports Full Recovery From Ransomware Attack
TSMC Expects Minimal Impact From Attack Last weekend, a wide-ranging ransomware attack hit TSMC. Over the past week, the company has been working on remediating the situation. The company is now providing an update to the situation. According to the latest report, all operations are now supposed to be back in full…
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TSMC Fabs Offlined by Ransomware Attack
TSMC Fabs Struck by WannaCry Ransomware Variant Due to the immense capital costs, there are only a few major silicon foundries in the world. One of the most popular ones for fabless firms is TSMC. As the chip supplier for AMD, Nvidia and Apple, it plays a major role in…
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Toshiba Now Selling Majority Stake in NAND Business
Over the last two months, reports started surfacing about the financial woes being faced by Japanese conglomerate Toshiba. After a series of scandals and disasters, the company is faced with serve money problems. In an effort to raise more cash, plans were announced seeking to sell a minority stake in their…
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UMC Announces 14nm Process For Q1 2017
When we think of the semiconductor industry, the first names that come to mind are Intel, Samsung, TSMC and Global Foundries. These companies are often on the bleeding edge of the latest process and are used by some of the biggest names in chip design. However, we can’t forget about the…
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Intel Details 7nm Process Rolling Out At Fab 42
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 years in advance and predict how much demand there will be when their facilities finally come online. Despite not having made any…
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Toshiba Starts Construction of Fab 6 for 3D NAND
Despite facing a variety of finance related issues over the past year, Toshiba appears to be committed to flash memory as ever. Due to the ongoing NAND shortage, many flash memory producers have started work on new fabs. Today, Toshiba announced their plans to start construction on their new Fab…
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Toshiba Confirms Selling Minority Stake in NAND Fab
Earlier in the month, reports surfaced about a potential Toshiba NAND fab sale. Due to poor financial performance and rocked by scandals, the Japanese conglomerate is in need of cash. After confirming that they were considering selling off part of their fab business, Toshiba has taken the final jump. According to…
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Chinese Tsinghua Unigroup Plans $30 Billion DRAM and NAND Fab Investment
From a quick look at the world’s semiconductor fabs, you might notice that they are all either American, Taiwanese, Japanese or Korean. As a rising consumer of semiconductor products, China has long wanted to invest in the semiconductor industry for obvious reasons. After being rebuffed in a series of purchase…
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GlobalFoundries Bypasses 10nm for 7nm
Currently, all the major silicon foundries are utilizing a 1x nm process. TSMC has their 16nm while Intel, Samsung, and GlobalFoundries have their 14nm process. The next process in line for development is 10nm, something Intel is pushing hard to reach. However, in a surprise move, GlobalFoundries is reportedly planning…
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