ARM working with TSMC on 7nm process
Low power high performance chips
ARM has teamed up with TSMC to develop a 7nm process technology to produce low-power, high-performance chips for next-generation networks and data centres.
Cadence close to releasing DDR4 and LPDDR4 products
Made using TSMC's 16nm FinFET Plus
Cadence Design Systems says its DDR4 and LPDDR4 IP using TSMC's 16nm FinFET Plus (16FF+) process have completed TSMC9000 Silicon Assessment.
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Any time a new batch of GPUs are ready to be sent from a manufacturing facility overseas to a supply partner for testing and metrics, there are always debugging and testing parts sent ahead of time to ensure that silicon is quickly brought to market without suffering silicon respin and unforeseen manufacturing delays.
Recent Taiwan earthquake impact larger than expected
Damage to Fab 14 may affect iPhone 7 production
A recent 6.4-magnitude earthquake in the southern Taiwan region that killed at least 116 people was originally expected to have a less than 1 percent impact on semiconductor manufacturing in the region. TSMC now expects to have an impact above 1 percent, according to an updated report from DigiTimes.
Earthquake might have damaged TSMC production
The Gods are not happy with the iPhone 7
Although it was thought that the earthquake in Taiwan might have had a limited impact on the production of electronics, rumours are flying that all is not well at TSMC.
Pascal in testing phase
Sent to India
The next-gen Pascal-based GPUs by Nvidia are now in the testing and validation phase.
Apple knifes Samsung
Puts all 10nm eggs in TSMC’s basket
Fruity cargo cult Apple has turned on its partner Samsung and given the contract to produce 10-nano application processors (AP) to TSMC.
Intel not ahead of the foundries
Transistor performance lagging
The naming game for the next generation of chipmaking actually covers up the fact that Intel is probably not ahead of the foundries in terms of transistor performance.
Altera deal might bite Chipzilla
Analyst warns
Technology analyst Ashraf Eassa is getting a little worried about Intel’s $16.7 billion Altera deal which he thinks could end up being a huge flop.
Intel’s roadmap has three families on 10nm
Rumours starting to firm up
It is starting to look like the rumours Chipzilla is planning to launch three processor families manufactured on the 10nm process node are proving true.