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Lacey's Paper Round
News No sign of the IT world slackening off for the holidays yet as the The Wall Street Journal reports on the race to build digital TV-based 'portals' in the living room, The Economist reports on Ball Semiconductor - a Texas company who may have a...
[December 7, 1998, 12:58]
Intel Claims 0.13-micron Milestone
News Intel, which plans to adapt the 0.13-micron process at nine fabrication plants by the end of 2003, is hoping to begin with its Fab 20 plant in Oregon, US in the first quarter of 2001. The company said it would be able to re-use about 70 percent of...
[November 8, 2000, 8:46]
Chipmakers Face Massive Consolidation
News Next-generation fabrication plants will be too expensive for most existing companies. The semiconductor industry will consolidate, with nearly 40 percent of today's chip vendors disappearing over the next few years, market researcher Gartner said...
[September 16, 2004, 9:40]
Latest AMD Snub Cuts Both Ways
News AMD separately announced Tuesday that it will lay off 2,300 workers by the end of the second quarter of 2002--or 15 percent of its work force--and close two fabrication facilities. The Athlon chip has been popular with gamers and consumers, a...
[September 26, 2001, 8:55]
Intel To Open Chip Plant In China
News Intel has announced that it will open a wafer fabrication facility in China, a significant milestone in the chip giant's manufacturing history. Instead, when it comes to erecting fabrication facilities, companies look at the available local...
[March 26, 2007, 9:00]
Intel Gets Hammered By AMD
News Thanks to the economical Hammer chips, Sanders said, AMD can meet its goal of attaining a 30 percent share of the market while operating only two PC-processor fabrication plants. Intel surprised the chip industry last year when it revealed that...
[April 27, 2001, 8:09]
AMD Hammers Out Plans For The Future
News Expenses associated with moving to 300-millimeter wafers, for instance, will be cut because the company won't move to the standard until 2005, and then will do so by sharing the cost of a new fabrication facility with a partner.
[November 9, 2001, 13:37]
Stakes Get Higher For Chip Gear
News Some lithography gear costs $15m to $17m, while the bill for completely outfitting wafer fabrication facilities, or fabs, can exceed $2bn. Moore's Law dictates that, largely through the use of ever smaller elements, the number of transistors on a...
[July 24, 2002, 6:27]
Chip Heavyweights Hope Alliance Adds Up
News Developing new manufacturing processes and installing them in new fabrication plants can cost billions of dollars. TSMC, meanwhile, will gain access to the manufacturing technologies created by the new joint pact, allowing it to produce large...
[April 14, 2002, 7:31]
Chip Recovery Will Start In 2002 - Analyst
News It has also meant a reduction in capital expenditures -- spending by semiconductor makers on the construction of new fabrication plants or on the refurbishment of existing plants. The wafers, which are 50 percent larger in diameter than current...
[October 31, 2001, 15:53]
Sony To Sink £1bn Into 'Cell' Console Chip
News The new chip, touted to be a thousand times more powerful than the processor in a PlayStation2, will be built on an advanced fabrication line in Japan, according to Sony. This means the first chips will be ready in late 2005, or more likely 2006...
[April 24, 2003, 7:31]
Intel To Postpone Chip Factory In Ireland
News Intel will postpone opening a fabrication facility for making PC processors for a year due to current market conditions and the advent of larger, more economical wafers. The Santa Clara, California-based chip giant is expected to announce Wednesday...
[December 13, 2000, 12:16]
IBM And AMD Form Chip Alliance
News Earlier, AMD and UMC agreed to jointly develop 65-nanometre processes and build a fabrication facility together. IBM will help Advanced Micro Devices develop future chip technologies, the companies announced on Wednesday, an alliance that will...
[January 9, 2003, 9:32]
AMD To Open Third Processor Factory In 2004
News Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) plans to open a third microprocessor fabrication facility by 2004, but will likely share the space with another chipmaker to cut costs. The Sunnyvale, California-based chipmaker is laying the groundwork for a Fab 35...
[January 9, 2001, 8:47]
Malaysian Govt Buys Identity Microchip
News The microchip would be manufactured in Japan early next year but production would eventually move to a factory in Malaysia's northern Kedah state belonging to state-owned wafer fabrication firm Silterra (M) Sdn.
[September 8, 2003, 11:00]
TI To Upgrade UltraSparc Manufacturing
News In the nearer future, TI will begin firing up a third 120-nanometre UltraSparc chip fabrication factory, or "fab," as it upgrades the plant currently used to build the bulk of Sun's 900MHz, 150-nanometre UltraSparcs, Rickert said.
[July 18, 2002, 8:24]
Freescale Joins IBM In Semiconductor Alliance
News For most chipmakers, alliances are a part of life, thanks to the rapid pace of Moore's Law, the complexity of contemporary chips, and the cost of building fabrication facilities, or fabs. The IBM chip federation just got larger.
[January 23, 2007, 8:31]
Pentium 4 Launches Monday
News To ensure a smooth transition, the company plans to convert five processor fabrication plants to manufacture the Pentium 4, Intel said. Initially, Pentium 4 PCs will require Intel's 850 chip set and RDRAM, which costs more than other memory...
[November 15, 2000, 7:58]
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]
Intel Ships Dual-core Presler
News In 2006, 65-nanometer production will kick off in three more fabrication facilities in Arizona, Ireland and Oregon. Intel has begun to produce chips made on the 65-nanometer process, adding an optimistic note to what has been a somewhat tough month...
[October 28, 2005, 8:30]
