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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 Announces 6-Nanometer Process Technology
Featuring Higher Transistor Density Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has announced their new 6nm manufacturing technology. This follows after the announcement of their 5nm entering risk production last week. Despite the small number change, this fabrication process features a considerably higher transistor density in comparison to 7nm. It is in…
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TSMC Starts Building Fab 18 for 5nm Production
TSMC Fab 18 Will Produce 5nm for 2020 With the increasing demand for silicon, all major semiconductor firms are making major expansions. This is no doubt due to the increase in computing devices in all areas of life. The death of 450mm wafers is also limiting improvements to yields. To…
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TSMC to Invest $20B in State-of-the-Art Chip Plant
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., the world’s biggest contract chip maker, is making big moves to cement its status. Currently, TSMC’s biggest contract is producing semiconductors for Apple. According to Bloomberg, TSMC is spending a whopping $20 billion on a state-of-the-art fabrication plant. Indeed, the move is designed to compete against…
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TSMC Engineer Charged With Stealing Trade Secrets
A former engineer at semiconductor foundry Taiwanese Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has been charged with stealing trade secrets from the company, which may include technologies used by NVIDIA and AMD in their graphics cards. According to DigiTimes, the former engineer, referred to only as Hsu, took materials related to TSMC’s…
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Intel Claims New 10nm Process Full Generation Ahead of Competition
After many delays, Intel is finally ready to unveil their new 10nm process. According to the company, the new 10nm process will be 2.7x denser than their current 14nm process. Even more surprising is the fact that it will be 2x denser than the 10nm nodes from competitors Samsung and…
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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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GlobalFoundries Invests $10 Billion to Build Plant in China
Diverging from recent announcements from Foxconn and Intel of building plants in the United States and bringing more manufacturing jobs in North America, California-based chip maker GlobalFoundries has announced a $10 billion project to build an advanced semiconductor factory in the central Chinese city of Chengdu. Just as many US…
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TSMC To Spend $15.7 Billion on new 3nm and 5nm Fabs
Despite the increasing difficulties, semiconductor fabs have continued to push the limits of silicon. After arriving at 14nm and now moving onto 10nm, investment is already kicking off onto even smaller nodes. TSMC, one of the few remaining fabs in the business, has just announced a massive new infrastructure project.…
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New Heat Dissipation Method Could Make Semiconductors Faster
A team of researchers from the University of California have developed a new technique for dissipating heat across electronic devices which could give a massive speed and power boost to new and existing semiconductors. Alexander Balandin, Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computing Engineering and UC Presidential Chair Professor in UCR’s…
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Samsung Starts Mass Production of 10nm Chips
Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics has announced that it has become the first in the semiconductor industry to start mass production of chips using a 10-nanometre process. Samsung’s new System-on-Chip (SoC) products with 10nm FinFET technology are expected to hit the market in early-2017, though the company is yet to…
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Samsung Developing Low-Cost 14nm and High-Performance 10nm Processes
Samsung has revealed its foundry’s roadmap for the next few years, which includes the development of a low-cost 14nm FinFET process (14LPC), with hopes that it can pass on those savings to its customers, and a new 10nm process (10LPP) that increases performance by up to 10% over its previous…
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Semiconductor Marvell Could be up for Sale
The semiconductor industry is a tough area to operate in and it is a dog-eat-dog world, and now it looks like Marvell Technology Group could be the next to be swallowed by a bigger dog on the market. According to an article in the New York Post, the chip maker could…
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Taiwan Earthquake Will Affect TSMC Fab More Than Expected
In the hours after the Taiwanese earthquake, TSMC was one of the major tech firms affected by the magnitude 6.4 quake. While the semiconductor manufacturer has initially stated that only minor damaged has occurred, it looks like effects will be longer lasting than expected. In fact, the damage will cause a greater than…
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Intel Admits End to Scaling and Moore’s Law
Even though everyone has pretty much already seen the writing on the wall by now, Intel has remained staunch publicly. At long last, the chip giant is admitting that scaling will have to rely on improvements other than clock speeds. In fact, Intel is going as far to say that…
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