TSMC and GlobalFoundries gearing up for 20 nanometer
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Published on Thursday, 03 May 2012 15:02 Written by Jacob Hugosson
The transition to the new 32 and 28 nanometer technologies is almost complete and the companies are starting to look forward. TSMC is looking to supply higher quantities at 20 nanometer, while GlobalFoundries will be able to offer TSV.
NVIDIA: 20nm from TSMC won't be cost efficient
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Published on Thursday, 29 March 2012 19:46 Written by Jacob Hugosson
As we close in on the theoretic limitations of silicon prices will increase exponentially. NVIDIA now says 20 nanometer at TSMC will hardly be cheaper than 28 nanometer, and the same goes for the successor at 14 nanometer.
Graphene supercapacitor charges 1000x faster
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Published on Tuesday, 27 March 2012 10:45 Written by Jacob Hugosson
One of the major problem we have in the developed world today is that batteries run out faster and faster in our mobile units. As all other technology is speeding ahead, batteries has not improved at the same rate, seen to capacity and charge times.
NVIDIA wants Intel as foundry partner
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Published on Monday, 26 March 2012 16:00 Written by Jacob Hugosson
NVIDIA VP Jen-Hsun Huang is one of the more colorful persons that can be found in the semiconductor industry, and often manages to create big headlines. He has now officially stated that he wants to cooperate with Intel and suggests it starts making ARM system processors.
GlobalFoundries celebrates 250,000 32nm wafers shipped to AMD
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Published on Thursday, 22 March 2012 14:27 Written by Jacob Hugosson
GlobalFoundries has now reached an important milestone at Fab 1, Dresden, Germany, as it has now shipped 250,000 wafers based on the 32 nanometer technology with SOI and HKMG to AMD.
TSMC to expand 28nm capacity further
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Published on Tuesday, 20 March 2012 20:30 Written by Jacob Hugosson
Times are good at TSMC that is currently experiencing the higest demand ever for a new node, but also many of the older nodes have been fully booked. Due to this the company has increased its budget for building new fabs, and is forced to expand further.
14nm from IBM, GlobalFoundries and Samsung: 3D transistors and SOI
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Published on Friday, 16 March 2012 13:41 Written by Jacob Hugosson
The chase for newer manufacturing technologies continues and Common Platform has started to discuss its 14 nanometer technology in the open. What we see is that industry will cross over to 3D transistors, and SOI could become the new industry standard.
AMD acquires server builder SeaMicro
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Published on Thursday, 01 March 2012 15:08 Written by Jacob Hugosson
Lately AMD has been doing quite well financially speaking, but it is sitll far from the glory days it once experienced. AMD has now acquired server builder SeaMicro, a name that often appear in the media thanks to its compact and energy efficient solutions.
Intel's 22nm node with 3D transistores gets a new customer
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Published on Wednesday, 22 February 2012 11:11 Written by Anton Karmehed
Intel has started to show an interest in opening up its plants to other companies. It has now been confirmed that another company will become an Intel customer when the new 22nm technology is introduced in early April, namely the FPGA company Tabula.
Prototype chip from Sony enabls wireless speeds up to 6.3Gbit/s
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Published on Tuesday, 21 February 2012 09:47 Written by Anton Karmehed
Sony has together with Tokyo Institute of Technology developed a prototype chip for wireless transfers. The chip has set several new records, not just the transfer speed at 6.3 Gbit/s – but also the low energy consumption at 74mW.
Intel Rosepoint - WiFi chip inside the processor
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Published on Monday, 20 February 2012 21:50 Written by Jacob Hugosson
The industry is struggling to integrate more components. The advantages are big, mainly cost and energy. Some components are harder to integrate than other, and Intel has now managed to integrate WiFi on the same silicon as two Atom cores.
Working single-atom transistor presented
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Published on Monday, 20 February 2012 21:17 Written by Carl Holmberg
While new manufacturing technologies allows circuit makers to make smaller and smaller transistors, no one has managed to make the smallest imaginable transistor to work – a transistor in the form of a single atom. A group of scientists in Australia has presented such a transistor – for the first time fully functional.
TSMC 28 nm line almost fully booked
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Published on Wednesday, 15 February 2012 15:53 Written by Jacob Hugosson
A higher demand for mobility in the retail segment has resulted in higher appeal to sub-40nm processes. TSMC is nearly fully booked, and its clients have just started to raise demand even further.
CSU scientists boost performance of AMD APUs with 21%
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Published on Wednesday, 08 February 2012 10:24 Written by Anton Karmehed
In an AMD-financed research project two ph.d. students at Carolina State University in the USA published a paper where it has managed to boost processor performance up to 113% in AMD APU circuits, but iusing the integrated graphics circuit more efficiently.
Intel has started building world's first 14nm fab
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Published on Wednesday, 25 January 2012 15:30 Written by Jacob Hugosson
Intel is spearheading the semiconductor market and has already started building its first fab for mass production of circuits at 14nm. The fab is expected to become the most expensive and advanced in the history of the company.
AMD Lightning Bolt - a cheap docking station
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Published on Monday, 16 January 2012 13:30 Written by Jacob Hugosson
While Intel wants to make Thunderbolt a common interface, AMD has other plans with a technology it calls Lightning Bolt. Lightning Bolt is not to be compared to Thunderbolt, but is simply a technology developed to offer really cheap docking soluitions.
GlobalFoundries starts production in Fab 8
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Published on Tuesday, 10 January 2012 11:00 Written by Jacob Hugosson
GlobalFoundries and its renowned Fab 8 is more or less ready outside of New York, and it has been able to start production in parts. The first circuits was produced using 32nm SOI/HKMG technology and it is not AMD circuits leading the production.
Samsungs foundry operation soon bigger than GF and UMC
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Published on Monday, 19 December 2011 13:31 Written by Anton Karmehed
Samsung is a giant in electronics and one of the latest projects is a major investment in its foundry operation where it manufactures semiconductors and circuits for other partners. An operation that has grown fast after only a few years and is starting to get close to market leader TSMC.
Swedish Media Council - "Games do not lead to aggressive behavior"
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Published on Monday, 05 December 2011 16:48 Written by Anton Karmehed
The debate on video games and violence has been raging for many years. A new report from the Swedish Media Council has summarized the research so far and concludes that there is no proof that violent games lead to aggressive behavior.
GlobalFoundries puts new fab in Abu Dhabi on hold
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Published on Monday, 28 November 2011 15:02 Written by Jacob Hugosson
GlobalFoundries looks to be holding off on its first fab in Abu Dhabi due to the economic situation in the world, but there are also two other problems that the company has to deal with that puts pressure on the new build: AMD and 450 mm wafers.
TSMC sees higher demand for 28nm, unable to deliver
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Published on Friday, 25 November 2011 09:53 Written by Jacob Hugosson
Just a month ago TSMC started mass production at 28nm, and despite the unstable market climate orders are starting to pile up. TSMC has never seen such high demand for a new process and suffers from capacity problems.
ARM, TSMC accelerate development of 20nm
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Published on Monday, 21 November 2011 14:00 Written by Jacob Hugosson
TSMC intends to get the next-next node 20nm out as fast as possible. In a cooperation with ARM it has already made great progress. TSMC hopes to have the new process up and running available for commercial applications by the end of next year.
Superbatteries with 10-fold better battery life,15 min charge
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Published on Thursday, 17 November 2011 09:51 Written by Anton Karmehed
The battery technology is one of the bigger bottlenecks for mobile devices. If we are to believe scientists at Northwestern University this may finally be a thing of the past. In five years we can have batteries that charge in 15 minutes and keeps your phone alive for a hwole week.
Nvidia pairs Tegra 3 with GeForce in Spanish supercomputer
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Published on Tuesday, 15 November 2011 09:34 Written by Anton Karmehed
Nvidia has launched the market's most powerful ARM processor in the form of the quad-core Tegra 3. The graphics card manufacturer has now revealed that it has built the first ARM-based hybrid supercomputer, by pairing Tegra 3 with its own GeForce GPUs.
ARM acquires Prolific for faster node transitions
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Published on Wednesday, 02 November 2011 19:15 Written by Jacob Hugosson
Moving to a new manufacturing process is becoming harder and more complicated with each new node. The circuits become more complex and the fabs are having a hard time getting yields up. ARM has therefore acquired the company Prolific to speed up and make the transition to new nodes easier.
Invisible glass eliminate reflections up to 99.5 percent
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Published on Tuesday, 01 November 2011 09:31 Written by Anton Karmehed
Screen glass is a must with modern monitors to product the panel beneath from air particles or pocket lint. With an annoying side effect being reflections coming off the glass, something Japanese Nippon says to have found a remedy for, as it nearly eiminates all light reflections.
TSMC has started mass production at 28nm, praise by all
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Published on Monday, 24 October 2011 11:31 Written by Jacob Hugosson
Despite a rough road toward 28nm, TSMC now officially announces that the 28nm process is in mass production and has started producing circuits in larger volumes. It confirms that it has shipped ready 28nm wafers to customers and the process is working in four types.
HP's memristor reality in 2013, can revolutionize SSD and RAM market
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Published on Sunday, 09 October 2011 14:46 Written by Jacob Hugosson
Memristor is a technology many have been following and it finally looks like it is getting ready for the market. It could possibly replace both NAND and DRAM as it can achieve the same speeds as RAM, with the capacity of NAND. The development has gone much faster than predicted, and the technology is expected to be available in 2013.
Poor yields at GlobalFoundries force AMD to change Q3 outlook
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Published on Thursday, 29 September 2011 08:55 Written by Jacob Hugosson
AMD Llano and A series was launched early this quarter, and we start to near the end of it it is time for AMD to sum up things in a fiscal report. AMD has released its preliminary Q3 results, which was lower than expected. It says it is because of poor yields at GlobalFoundries.
Leading semiconductor manufacturers invest 4.4 billion dollar in 450mm manufacturing
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Published on Wednesday, 28 September 2011 11:23 Written by Anton Karmehed
it is very costly to manufacture semiconductor components and when the industry is now moving toward new and more efficient technology where wafers measures 450mm in diameter the big dragons team up. Intel, IBM, TSMC, Globalfoundries and Samsung have decided to invest 4.4 billion dollar in two separate projects to make circuit manufacturing more efficient.
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