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Samsung cutting prices on 14nm FinFET
Begun the price wars have
It is starting to look like a price war is brewing at the higher end of chip production, with Samsung already negotiating price cuts.
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UK University gets its own Fab
Students design chips instead of just living off them
The University of Westminster's Marylebone campus has opened a high tech fabrication lab in central London.
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TSMC promises 7nm chips in 2017
Promised you a miracle
TSMC is telling the world that it is optimistic about its abilities to make chips using super thin process technologies.
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Powerchip builds Chinese fab
12 inch wafers
Powerchip is to set up a joint-venture fab in the capital city of China's Anhui Province with the Hefei city government the big idea is to build 12-inch wafers and provide foundry services mainly for driver ICs.
Fab equipment spending declining
Will not improve for a couple of years
Intel shows fab transition plans
Work begun on 7nm and 5nm processes
Hamas closes in on Intel plant
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Kiryat Gat now a target
Intel planning further expansion at Kiryat Gat
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Wants to step up 15 nm production
Renesas has recovered
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Back to prequake levels
Apple could be switching fabs
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TSMC has better 40nm yields