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TSMC expects 10 per cent of sales to be 7nm
Thanks, Intel and Gloflo
TSMC expects 7nm chip sales to account for 10 percent of its 2018 revenues after its rivals decided to give the technology a miss or delayed development.
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TSMC sees profits fall
As an expected trade war looms
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing has reported a 0.9 percent fall in third quarter net profits.
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TSMC to set up new fab
New packaging for its back end
TSMC is attempting to get approval to build a new advanced packaging Fab in Taiwan.
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AMD will take a third of the desktop
Intel has blinked.
AMD may regain 30 percent of global desktop CPU market share in the fourth quarter of 2018 as Intel continues to lose ground.
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Apple A12 bionic 7nm detailed
6-core CPU 4-core GPU and a lot of AI
Apple’s A12 Bionic is the name of the most important chip inside the iPhone Xs and Xs Max and Xr detailed here. Make no mistake, this is the first to ship 7nm but not the first to sample or be announced, it is actually the third. As believers in the Apple religion don’t care about features unless they have it in their beloved iPhones, they don’t care about the rest of the world.
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Apple A12 Bionic chip is third 7nm for phones
Announced, but first to ship
Let's get one thing straight right from the start. Apple's iPhone Xs next generation A12 Bionic SoC has been claimed by Apple’s Phil Schiller to be the first on the market. Well, it is the third, as Qualcomm and Huawei have already announced that they sampled or in production of their 7nm Phone SoCs.
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AMD CTO discusses 7nm EPYC and Vega 7nm
Both TSMC don’t worry about GloFo
The news that GlobalFoundries is walking away from 7nm manufacturing brought a lot of uncertainty to AMD’s roadmap and Mark Papermaster the CTO of the company has just posted a blog comforting investors and assuring customers that both CPU and GPU designs at 7nm are in safe hands at TSMC.
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TSMC hit by virus
Fab plants infected
TSMC has warned that several of its fabrication plants suffered virus infections on 3 August disrupting production.
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Intel with 14nm still kicking industry’s butt
Financial community got it wrong
After Intel announced that it had to delay its 10nm production to 2019, financial analysts around the world reacted with negative stock comments and valuation. Most of them got things wrong. Intel with its $17 billion highest ever revenue showed magnificent growth in the data center and it made that $17 billion without 10nm.
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TSMC talks about 5nm plans
Will invest $25 billion
TSMC has said it expects to invest $25 billion in 5-nanometer node technology.