China-based IC design houses ramping 28nm chip orders at TSMC
posted on August 11, 2014 14:05
More than 10 China-based IC design houses and IC design service companies have placed 28nm chip orders at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), indicating the strengthening competitiveness of China-based IC suppliers, according to industry sources.
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Global Semiconductor Industry on Pace for Record Sales Through First Half of 2014
posted on August 11, 2014 14:04
WASHINGTON, Aug. 4, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), representing U.S. leadership in semiconductor manufacturing and design, today announced that worldwide sales of semiconductors reached $82.7 billion during the second quarter of 2014 …
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IBM's Brain-Inspired Computer Chip Comes from the Future
posted on August 11, 2014 14:03
Brain-inspired computers have tickled the public imagination ever since Arnold Schwarzenegger's character in “Terminator 2: Judgment Day” uttered: “My CPU is a neural net processor; a learning computer.” Today, IBM researchers backed by U.S. military funding unveiled a new computer chip that they say could revolutionize everything from smartphones to smart cars—and perhaps pave the way for neural networks to someday approach the computing capabilities of the human brain.
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The sexy R&D behind boring chip companies
posted on August 11, 2014 14:02
When lists are generated of the hottest companies and trends in technology, the dominant words have become predictable: mobile, viral, cloud, big data and wearable.
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It was IBM that tried to pay GlobalFoundries for chip business
posted on August 11, 2014 14:01
IBM is so desperate to unload its computer-chip manufacturing unit that the company was offering GlobalFoundries $1 billion to take it off its hands, according to a report by Bloomberg News.
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EUV Results Bogus, Says Analyst
posted on August 05, 2014 14:05
I IBM's latest test of its extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV) scanner was met with skepticism from one industry watcher, who suggested the results were deliberately misleading.
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Atomic Layer Etch now in Fab Evaluations
posted on August 05, 2014 14:04
Atomic-Layer Etch (ALE) technology from Lam Research Corp. is now in beta-site evaluations with IC fabrication (fab) customers pursuing next generation manufacturing capabilities.
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Will Silicon Save Quantum Computing?
posted on August 05, 2014 14:03
Grand engineering challenges often require an epic level of patience. That’s certainly true for quantum computing.
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The Second Shoe Drops – Now We Have the Samsung V-NAND Flash
posted on August 05, 2014 14:02
Two weeks ago, we posted about the TSMC 20nm product that we had in-house; now after waiting for a year since Samsung’s announcement of V-NAND production, we have that in the lab and can start to see what it looks like.
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Moore’s Law is Dead – (Part 4) Why?
posted on August 05, 2014 14:01
Lead bongo player of physics Richard Feynman famously said, “There’s plenty of room at the bottom,” and in 1959 when the IC was invented a semiconductor device was composed of billions of atoms so it seemed that it would always be so. Today, however, we can see the atomic limits of miniaturization on the horizon, and we can start to imagine the smallest possible functioning electronic device.
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