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TSMC breaks ground on $9.3bn 'Gigafab'

...according to chip research company IC Insights. The fab will be the chip foundry's third Gigafab in Taiwan and its second with 28nm capacity... Read more

20 July, 2010 by Jack Clark

ARM and TSMC plan 20nm system-on-a-chip production

...ARM has signed a long-term deal with Taiwanese chip foundry TSMC to build very small system-on-a-chip processors, the... Read more

21 July, 2010 by David Meyer

TSMC discloses chip 'espionage' evidence

The Taiwanese chip manufacturer has accused a Chinese rival of copying its processes Read more

25 March, 2004 by Aloysius Choong and Michael Kanellos

Intel, AMD spar over patent-licensing dispute

...in the next 60 days, unless concerns surrounding AMD's joint-venture chip foundry are addressed. Intel's warning is an escalation of concerns it... Read more

17 March, 2009 by Dawn Kawamoto

Sun steps up efforts on open-source chip

...when it comes to hardware design, fewer people have expertise, and a chip foundry isn't likely to be interested in allocating fab capacity to... Read more

15 May, 2007 by Stephen Shankland

IBM licenses 45nm technology in China

...it had started 300mm wafer production earlier in December. SMIC is a chip foundry, meaning that it manufactures chips that other companies design. Its 65nm... Read more

27 December, 2007 by Stephen Shankland

Japanese companies may form a super-foundry

Hitachi, Toshiba and Renesas are considering establishing a communal chip foundry to which each could outsource its semiconductor manufacturing activities, the companies... Read more

29 December, 2005 by Stephen Shankland

Looking behind India's tech boom

...A South Korean entrepreneur has signed a preliminary agreement to build a chip foundry near Hyderabad, but many sources privately doubt that the project will... Read more

28 June, 2005 by Michael Kanellos

Chartered signs AMD deal

...planned to build a 65-nanometer plant with UMC, another Singapore-based chip foundry. But the agreement never came to fruition, and the two companies... Read more

9 November, 2004 by John G.Spooner

iPod chipmaker plans to cash in

...but does not actually manufacture its chips. That work is done by chip foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company and by LSI Logic, which also holds... Read more

12 August, 2004 by Ina Fried

IBM sets up Power portal

...a number of other changes to its chip business recently, including establishing chip foundry and design businesses and combining its microelectronics and server groups into... Read more

17 May, 2004 by John G.Spooner

IBM sells off PowerPC processors

...changes to its chip business as a whole recently, including establishing a chip foundry business and combining its Microelectronics and Server groups into a new... Read more

13 April, 2004 by John G.Spooner

Samsung to share IBM's chips

...licensed Big Blue's chipmaking technology, signed on to use IBM Microelectronics' chip foundry service, and joined an IBM-backed partnership focused on future chip... Read more

8 March, 2004 by John G.Spooner

Zigbee will spring into action this year

...equivalent, according to the report. ITE Tech, a spin-off from major chip foundry United Microelectronics, will also launch its Zigbee wireless chip this year... Read more

11 April, 2003 by Staff

IBM to produce Nvidia chips

...services arm. Since then, IBM has opened the Fishkill plant as a chip foundry, put in place a programme to license its PowerPC processor and... Read more

26 March, 2003 by John G.Spooner

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