TSMC sees growth and new processes
Reveals cunning plans
TSMC has revised its 2017 forecasts for global foundry to seven percent growth and thinks that the overall IC market will grow 16 percent.
TSMC sees profits down
Supply-chain inventory constraints
TSMC claimed that supply-chain inventory constraints hurt its net profit in the third quarter, although not as badly as many analysts had predicted.
TSMC builds 3nm Fab in Taiwan
Not the US
As we predicted,TSMC will build the 'world's first' semiconductor plant to support the creation of 3nm node silicon chips in Taiwan.
TSMC founder and chairman, Morris Chang to retire
Leaving in June
TSMC said its founder and chairman, Morris Chang, will retire in June – to be fair he is 86.
TSMC will make most of Qualcomm's power management ICs
Goodbye Globalfoundaries
TSMC is to make 70 to 80 percent of Qualcomm's new-generation power management ICs (PWM IC).
MediaTek announces Helio P23 and P30
Back to its Mid-market roots
MediaTek has just announced its latest addition to the Helio family with two new octa core Helio P23 and P30 CPUs, both at 16nm from TSMC.
Chinese chipmakers could be boosted in post-Moore’s Law
Chinese dragon could take Chipzilla
Not everyone is mourning the slow death of Moore’s Law and Chinese chipmakers could use the period to catch up with their Western rivals.
New Geforce will be incremental
Clock is tocking not ticking
The upcoming Geforce GPU architecture will be more incremental than revolutionary as Nvidia appears to be using Intel’s tick-tock strategy.
TSMC scores some of Qualcomm's chip business
Will make baseband chips produced on its 7nm process
TSMC has regained some chip orders from Qualcomm for baseband chips produced on its 7nm process, but not application processors.
TSMC might build more foundries in Taiwan
No interest in making America grate again
Any idea that TSMC was going follow Foxconn or Japan's SoftBank and set up a foundry in the US has been dashed.
