Future Horizons: prepare for a tight 2014
Given the current state of the western consumer economy and the lacklustre nature of some of the most important launches of 2012, there does not seem, at first, to be much cause for alarm about...
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Intel foundry to make Altera FPGAs
The Intel foundry business will make FPGAs for Altera on a future 14nm tri-gate finFET process. John Daane, president, CEO and chairman of Altera, said: “Altera’s FPGAs using Intel 14 nm technology...
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Intel and ST stake claims to foundry low power designs
With both Intel and STMicroelectronics looking to offer foundry access to, respectively, their finFET (aka, in Intel’s case, tri-gate) and fully-depleted silicon on insulator (FDSOI) technologies, both...
View ArticleTSMC and Xilinx forge tighter bonds to speed up finFET port
Xilinx is to use TSMC as its foundry for forthcoming finFET-based field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), with the companies forming a single engineering team to attempt to bring forward the date of...
View ArticleIntel tips 14nm processor, Quark core and SoC licensing plans
Intel will start making 14nm processors by the year end, has developed a new core dubbed Quark, and may license SoC designs to be fabbed by other companies, CEO Brian Krzanich told the Intel Developer...
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India outlines subsidies for foundry fab plan
The Indian government says that it is prepared to meet up to 25% of the cost of developing a 45nm foundry and provide further incentives to support the growth of the national electronics manufacturing,...
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TSMC succession plan emphasizes stability
The immediate appointments of TSMC veterans Dr Mark Liu and Dr C.C. Wei as president and co-CEOs of the world’s largest foundry may seem unusual. But they were widely expected among analysts and...
View ArticleIntel and Altera extend foundry deal into interposer and full 3D
Altera has extended its foundry agreement with Intel to cover future 3D-IC development, effectively quashing rumors that it was about to move its most advanced production back to TSMC. Intel originally...
View ArticleCommon Platform foundry alliance to be wound down
The Common Platform – the foundry marketing alliance linking Samsung, IBM and GlobalFoundries – is being wound down although the three companies will continue some collaboration on process development...
View ArticleQualcomm takes 28nm to China in SMIC deal
Chinese foundry Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) is to get a helping hand to develop a production-class 28nm process from Qualcomm Technologies. Qualcomm said in a statement...
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TSMC: e-beam winning on cost over EUV for lithography
TSMC’s latest progress report on sub-10nm lithography options favors multiple e-beam lithography over the more heavily R&D funded extreme ultraviolet alternative. TSMC has said that it is willing...
View ArticleIBM pays GlobalFoundries to take on chipmaking operation
The fact that IBM needed to agree to pay GlobalFoundries $1.5bn in cash to take on its fabs underlines the problems that the world’s second-largest foundry will have in squaring the needs of IBM and...
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Chip tariff eliminated and the big winner is… China?
The joint US-China announcement of an end to China’s tariffs of up to 25% on ‘advanced’ semiconductor components caught the industry and analysts by surprise this week. US president Barack Obama and...
View ArticleTSMC begins risk production of 16FF+
TSMC says it has begun risk production on its FinFET Plus (16FF+) process, claiming that it has reached a greater level of maturity earlier in its development cycle than previous nodes developed at the...
View ArticleCOMPUTEX 2015: Taiwan and mainland China face off in IoT platforms
ARM stole the headlines at Computex with its launch of a 55nm Internet of Things (IoT) subsystem but it was not the only player timing a bid around the show for a slice of the potentially huge Asian...
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India outlines subsidies for foundry fab plan
The Indian government says that it is prepared to meet up to 25% of the cost of developing a 45nm foundry and provide further incentives to support the growth of the national electronics manufacturing,...
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TSMC succession plan emphasizes stability
The immediate appointments of TSMC veterans Dr Mark Liu and Dr C.C. Wei as president and co-CEOs of the world's largest foundry may seem unusual. But they were widely expected among analysts and...
View ArticleIntel and Altera extend foundry deal into interposer and full 3D
Altera has extended its foundry agreement with Intel to cover future 3D-IC development, effectively quashing rumors that it was about to move its most advanced production back to TSMC. Intel originally...
View ArticleCommon Platform foundry alliance to be wound down
The Common Platform - the foundry marketing alliance linking Samsung, IBM and GlobalFoundries - is being wound down although the three companies will continue some collaboration on process development...
View ArticleQualcomm takes 28nm to China in SMIC deal
Chinese foundry Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) is to get a helping hand to develop a production-class 28nm process from Qualcomm Technologies. Qualcomm said in a statement...
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