Cisco has to fab chips at an Intel foundry
Analysis: It isn't a choice as much as a requirement
Cisco is going to make chips with Intel as a foundry for one simple reason, they have to.
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ARM and TSMC tape out 20nm FinFET Coretex-A57 CPU
History is made at night, character is what you are in the dark. - Lord John Whorfin
It looks like TSMC and ARM are getting serious about 64-bit CPUs, they just taped out a Coretex-A57 CPU on 20nm.
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What is Apple doing at 14nm?
Analysis: 20nm long decided, 14nm choices will shape everyone's options
There has been a lot of speculation about Apple and fabs lately, so let’s go over what SemiAccurate is hearing.
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Analysis: Intel fab utilization rates speak volumes
One number given, a few more dug up
There have been a lot of rumors about Intel fab utilization recently, so SemiAccurate dug in to the news and uncovered some interesting numbers.
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Nvidia’s Maxwell process choice
Analysis: 28nm versus 20nm in 2014
The first few scraps of information about Nvidia’s Maxwell generation are coming out, and they have some really serious implications.
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AMD let the new ‘Cat’ out of the bag with the Jaguar core
Hot Chips 2012: Bobcat MkII is a nice step forward
At Hot Chips today, AMD is revealing some of the details about their new Jaguar core, the successor to Bobcat, the first of their smaller ‘Cat’ family of cores.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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…
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