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TSMC Starts 7nm Risk Production in April
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 relatively lower clocks, power profiles and high demand, the mobile SoCs are playing a major role in pushing to lower processes.…
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450mm Wafers Likely Won’t Happen Anytime Soon
The Global 450 Consortium, a massive $4.8 billion effort to bring about 450mm wafers has come to an unfortunate end. After 5 years of research and development, two of the founding members have decided to pull out of the program. The consortium brought together Intel, Samsung, GlobalFoundries, TSMC, and IBM in…
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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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AMD Amends Global Foundries Wafer Supply Deal
Ever since spinning off their own semiconductor foundries, AMD has had a rocky road with their foundry partner. Called Global Foundries, the once AMD own fabs have remained a trouble for the processor firm. As part of their ongoing relationship, AMD has renegotiated their Wafer Supply Agreement with Global Foundries. This amendment…
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TSMC to Double 16nmFF+ Chip Production
After the recent Taiwanese earthquake, many Nvidia and AMD watchers may have worried about their upcoming Pascal and Polaris GPUs. While TSMC did eventually reveal that there would be a hit to their chip production, especially 16nm, it seems like things should be fine. According to the latest reports, TSMC…
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Samsung Starts Mass Production of 256bit V-NAND
With super large SSDs arriving for both consumers and enterprise, the ability to produce dense NAND dies is critical. As with all silicon products, a denser die means lower costs on the same wafer size as it means you can get more usable dies out of the same wafer if…
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TSMC Ships 16nm FinFET Chips – 10nm and 7nm On Their Way
In a move that is sure to please AMD and Nvidia fans, TSMC has started volume production of 16nm FinFET chips. According to TSMC president and co-CEO Mark Liu, the ramp up for 16nm will be more aggressive than their 20nm process, leading to improved market share for TSMC. Both AMD and Nvidia…
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