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TSMC discloses chip 'espionage' evidence
News Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the world's top contract chip manufacturer, has disclosed new evidence as part of its suit against China's Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp.
[March 25, 2004, 11:27]
TSMC shrinks memory to 0.13 microns
News TSMC) says it has successfully made SRAM memory chips using an advanced 0.13-micron manufacturing process at its Fab 12. The process will mean cheaper, more efficient memory modules for TSMC's customers, as well as potentially lower costs for...
[October 24, 2001, 17:10]
Intel outsources Atom manufacturing to TSMC
News The deal forms part of a long-term strategic technology collaboration between Intel and TSMC, announced on Monday. Under the memorandum of understanding (MOU) that forms the basis of the collaboration, Intel will port its Atom processor cores to...
[March 2, 2009, 17:01]
Chipmaker TSMC sees drop in quarterly profits
News Triggered by a deepening economic recession worldwide and customers' inventory adjustment, the fourth quarter saw a sharp decline in the demand for semiconductors across all applications", TSMC said. According to TSMC, 65nm technology accounted for...
[January 23, 2009, 15:12]
Nvidia anticipates graphics recovery for 2003
News TSMC), the largest contract chip manufacturer, on Monday unveiled TSMC's first chips built on a new manufacturing process, and predicted a sales recovery for 2003. At a public event that was reported by several Chinese and Taiwanese newspapers, the...
[December 17, 2002, 12:03]
Copying accusations fly in Chinese chip tussle
News Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the world's top contract chip manufacturer, has disclosed new evidence as part of its suit against China's Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC) for alleged corporate espionage.
[March 25, 2004, 9:15]
ATI aims to extend lead over Nvidia
News TSMC) and UMC. The chip is currently manufactured by TSMC to 0.15-micron geometry, but the new version will shrink this to 0.13 microns, currently used by chipmakers AMD and Intel as well as the GeForce FX.
[December 13, 2002, 16:23]
IBM to produce Nvidia chips
News TSMC). The chipmaker plans to continue its work with TSMC, even for its highest-performance chips, said Perez, who noted that the manufacturer has produced more than 200 million Nvidia graphics chips over the last five years.
[March 26, 2003, 7:39]
Transmeta investigating Taiwan foundries
News IBM, Transmeta's only current licensed chip manufacturer, is considerably more expensive than foundries such as TSMC. The money it's made itself, and the extent of the licences ARM is in now,.are due to TSMC and other foundries.
[August 8, 2000, 10:00]
Transmeta to keep 'em coming
News Such an announcement has been expected since February, when Transmeta signed a manufacturing agreement with TSMC, Taiwan's largest contract manufacturer for chips. The deal will not only increase the manufacturing capacity for Transmeta's chips...
[June 25, 2001, 9:18]
Next Crusoe chip bogged down in testing
News There are extensive unique elements to the design," a TSMC representative said. TSMC), the contract manufacturer for Transmeta. At a point in the past, the yields were low because of these problems," the TSMC representative said.
[October 10, 2001, 9:45]
Applied Materials polishes Black Diamond
News Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing qualified the technology on its 130-nanometre manufacturing process and shipped 10,000 wafers containing the technology last year, according to Chuck Byers, a spokesman for TSMC.
[February 5, 2004, 8:00]
Via chips from IBM
News Transmeta, Nvidia and others, for instance, delayed products in 2001, in part because of manufacturing issues with TSMC. TSMC has hired a former professor from the University of California at Berkeley to help it develop multigate transistors, a...
[January 7, 2004, 13:05]
Xbox sales 'sluggish'
News TSMC), according to newspaper reports from Taipei. Nvidia and TSMC held the joint press conference on Monday as an opportunity for TSMC to show off its new 0.13-micron manufacturing process. Microsoft's Xbox game console sold worse than expected in...
[December 16, 2002, 13:32]
Chartered merger set to boost Globalfoundries
News TSMC was the clear leader at $3.3bn. This does assume that the transaction doesn't nullify the alliance or any contractual obligations, but we do not believe that it will because it actually adds more value to the Common Platform as an alternative...
[September 14, 2009, 13:36]
Intel to open chip plant in China
News Many of Intel's communication chips now get made by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC). TSMC, which is the largest contract manufacturer for chips in the world, makes some chips in China. TSMC also fought, but ultimately settled, an...
[March 26, 2007, 9:00]
Nvidia, AMD announce new graphics chips
News AMD continues to push the envelope of graphics-processor performance, energy efficiency and leading features with the introduction of its 40nm graphics processors," said Mark Liu, senior vice president, Advanced Technology Business, TSMC in a...
[March 3, 2009, 11:41]
ARM ups speed, drops power with new chip
News Intel has recently positioned its Atom x86 low-power chip as a direct competitor to ARM, and it has been using similar core IP licensing models and the same TSMC chip fabrication plants as its rival. ARM has launched its Cortex-A5 MPCore processor...
[October 21, 2009, 17:09]
ARM targets Intel with 2GHz multicore chips
News The dual-core parts, which are designed to be made using fabrication company TSMC's 40nm chip manufacturing process, can be licensed now with delivery of the finished designs to partners in the fourth quarter of 2009.
[September 16, 2009, 10:00]
Applied Materials cuts more jobs
News Many chipmakers are increasingly outsourcing manufacturing to foundries like TSMC or collaborating with other chip designers on building fabrication facilities. Applied Materials, the world's largest maker of semiconductor manufacturing equipment...
[November 5, 2002, 10:46]
