Tag Archive for "tsmc"
Nvidia’s five new Keplers raise a red flag
Manufacturing woes are worse than they seem
Nvidia released five ‘all new’ video cards last week, and it is a cause for celebration, right?
Why can’t Nvidia supply Kepler/GK104/GTX680?
TSMC is blameless, Kepler is a self-inflicted wound
Nvidia has been busily blaming TSMC for their many supposed failings on 28nm, but SemiAccurate has learned what is really going on.
Qualcomm moves majority of production to Global Foundries
Just like we said over a month ago
Recently, Qualcomm has been the subject of many rumors on fabbing and capacity.
Where will AMD make 28nm APUs?
Question answered in the Q1 conference call
AMD solved a mystery about where the next gen parts are going to be fabbed in yesterday’s conference call.
Will 28nm rain on Nvidia’s financial parade?
40nm didn't reflect reality, 28nm does
Nvidia has had a remarkably consistent financial run in 2011, but that looks to be changing for 2012.
Why did TSMC stop 28nm production?
No clear answer, but lots of speculation
There has been a lot of misunderstanding about the TSMC shutdown news from last week, so lets look at it a little more closely.
The SemiAccurate guide to Nvidia Kepler/GK104/GTX680 launch activities
Three dates, two launches, one paper
Nvidia has a busy schedule for Kepler at GDC, and we thought you might want to know about it.
TSMC suddenly halts 28nm production
No, we are not kidding, complete stop
Sit down before you read this one, we will wait for a second while you do.
Chinese 16 core CPU uses message passing
Gone are the old days of massive shared memory architectures.
During the first day of ISSCC in San Francisco research from Fudan University…
Nvidia comes somewhat clean on their quarterly conference call
Some might call the news grim
Nvidia seems to be so far ahead of the curve that they are experiencing problems that are unique in the industry.
Fabless Works for AMD
Deep partnerships with both Global Foundries and TSMC keep things humming...
There have been a lot of stories lately about AMD’s future. One rather overlooked story is how AMD is moving forward with its fabless supply chain strategy.
Tegra 3 missed performance goals by wide margins
Late, problematic, and far too costly
Nvidia’s ‘quad-ish’ core Tegra 3/Kal-el is bad idea with a worse implementation, and that is before the financials.
Indian design house completes first 28nm chip
Complexity is difficult, no?
Soctronics headquartered in Hyderabad, India has completed its first design of a 28nm chip according to a press release that the company issued.
ARM and TSMC complete design of 20nm processor
A15s just got smaller than they were last week
ARM and TSMC have just completed the design of a test chip based on the Cortex-A15 processor design according to a press release from the companies.
Exclusive: TSMC raises prices on AMD and Nvidia
Apple and low yields to blame
TSMC is doing some thing that are sure to make AMD and Nvidia grumble, and grumble a lot.
A look at Tegra 3, 3.3 and 4
Part 1: Tegra 3 warts lead to a new variant
What’s going on with Nvidia’s Tegra line lately?
TSMC issues press release touting their own inabilities
Takes Intel's mistakes and lowers the bar further
Every once in a while, you see a press release that is so spectacularly misguided that it can’t be by chance.
Nvidia’s Kepler comes in to focus
Late and compute oriented at the cost of graphics
When SemiAccurate announced that AMD (NYSE:AMD) was aiming for September with Southern Islands (SI), you could almost set your watch to the Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) response.
AMD Southern Islands possible for September
Contingent on wafers, but designs are OK
What is going on with Southern Islands, the next generation ATI graphics card?
Apple CPUs rolling off the line at TSMC
Last April's test seems to have worked out
Sources in Taiwan tell SemiAccurate that there are currently Apple marked chips coming off the lines at TSMC.
China develops MIPS processor for smartphones
Uses only 240mW with integrated graphics
Chinese MIPS developer Ingenic has just completed a 65nm MIPS24 compatible chip complete with integrated graphics and I/O on the chip.
TSMC joins SEMATECH
Cites development of infrastructure for 450mm wafers as a main reason
TSMC (NYSE:TSM) last week announced that it will join SEMATECH in order to further research in sub 22nm process technology as well as implementation of 450mm wafer infrastructure.
Taiwan to Ration Wafer Supply
More pure water needed for fabs.
On May 20 Taiwan will start phase 2 of wafer rationing according to a report by AsiaOne quoting the Taiwanese minister for Economic Affairs.
LG to design own Cortex processors
Watch the CPU war with Samsung heat up
LG Electronics (SE:066570) of Korea is the latest company to license the ARM Cortex A15 architecture, which will allow it to design processors based on ARM’s IP.
Apple suing Samsung is incredibly stupid
A broken system used badly
Apple (AAPL) suing Samsung over, well, who really cares anymore, is probably the dumbest thing that Apple could do.
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