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Intel Unveils New Chip Manufacturing Technology
News The Santa Clara, California-based chipmaker will use "strained silicon" -- or silicon where the atoms in the chip's silicon base are spaced further apart than normal -- in its chips made on the 90-nanometre manufacturing process, according to Mark...
[August 13, 2002, 7:39]
AMD Splits Off Its Chip-manufacturing Business
News AMD is to split off its manufacturing operations through a finance deal with a firm from the United Arab Emirates, which will leave AMD with total control of only its design wing. The chipmaker confirmed on Tuesday that it has signed an agreement...
[October 7, 2008, 16:43]
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]
Intel Draws Chips With Extreme UV
News Intel has reached another milestone on the path to developing a new chip manufacturing technology that will keep its factories humming well into the future. Moore's Law -- which states that the number of transistors on a given chip can be doubled...
[August 2, 2004, 8:30]
US Report: IBM To Stop Making Cyrix Chips
News The companies will announce, perhaps within the next month, that Nat Semi will take over all Cyrix chip manufacturing from IBM sources said. The news comes as Nat Semi ramps up manufacturing of Cyrix processors in its own fabrication facility in...
[September 2, 1998, 16:48]
Chartered Signs AMD Deal
News The Intel rival known for its Athlon PC and Opteron server processors announced on Tuesday plans to tap Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing, a contract manufacturer, for extra chip-production capacity.
[November 9, 2004, 15:08]
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. To date, Intel has concentrated its chip manufacturing facilities in the US, Israel and Ireland while...
[March 26, 2007, 9:00]
Infineon Boosts Memory Chip Output
News Infineon Technologies, eyeing a recovery in the memory chip market, is increasing its production capacity through a pair of manufacturing agreements. The extra capacity roughly equals that of a midsize chip manufacturing plant.
[March 11, 2002, 15:48]
AMD Passes 90-nanometre Milestone
News Advanced Micro Devices says it has reached a chip manufacturing milestone that will lead to improvements across its range of processor offerings for PCs and servers. Generally, shifting manufacturing processes -- in this case moving from a 130...
[August 18, 2004, 9:00]
Intel Recalls Faulty Controllers
News The chipmaker prides itself on its manufacturing and uses a procedure called "copy exactly," through which it launches identical chip manufacturing processes and procedures across its network of manufacturing plants.
[June 28, 2004, 11:15]
Chip Heavyweights Hope Alliance Adds Up
News The chip makers will work together during the next five years with chip manufacturer Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC) to research advanced manufacturing processes and materials that result in smaller, faster, more power-efficient...
[April 14, 2002, 7:31]
AMD And IBM Deepen Chip Commitment
News AMD and IBM will work together to devise chip-manufacturing technology for three additional years, a deal that will bring about a quarter of a billion to IBM over four years and give AMD access to cutting-edge chip inventions.
[September 22, 2004, 8:30]
IBM Shrinks SRAM Cell For Future Chip Generation
News IBM has unveiled what it says is the first working static random access memory cell for a future generation in chip manufacturing, based on a 22nm scale. Although the next generation of chip manufacturing is based on the 32nm scale (the current...
[August 18, 2008, 17:23]
Barrett Extends Silicon Roadmap
News Conventional chip manufacturing processes use a technology called complimentary metal oxide semiconductors, or CMOS. The momentum will be kept up first through conventional manufacturing processes, then for many years after that by other technology...
[March 2, 2005, 9:30]
TI Strides Towards 65 Nanometres
News Texas Instruments has taken its first few steps toward a new generation of chip manufacturing technology that promises higher performance and less power-hungry processors. TI, Intel and other chipmakers currently makes chips using 90-nanometre chip...
[March 23, 2004, 10:20]
Intel Claims 0.13-micron Milestone
News The chip maker claims to be first to finalise 0.13-micron manufacturing plans, having already passed two critical milestones: it has created static RAM chips and, more recently, samples of Pentium III chips based on the new 0.13-micron process.
[November 8, 2000, 8:46]
A Year Ago: IBM To Stop Making Cyrix Chips
News The companies will announce, perhaps within the next month, that Nat Semi will take over all Cyrix chip manufacturing from IBM sources said. National Semiconductor's Cyrix subsidiary and IBM Microelectronics are dissolving their long-standing...
[September 3, 1999, 6:55]
One Last Chance For Beleaguered AMD?
News PC chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc.is expected to announce grim news today -- manufacturing problems have driven down the company's yields of its most lucrative processors, leaving AMD selling far too few, and far too unprofitable, processors.
[April 14, 1999, 6:36]
Nvidia Anticipates Graphics Recovery For 2003
News Graphics chip maker Nvidia and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. 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.
[December 17, 2002, 12:03]
Full Steam Ahead For Nvidia Xbox Chips
News Nvidia, the graphics chip maker, plans to begin manufacturing graphics and communications chips for Microsoft's Xbox video game console next month, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. Dan Vivoli, the company's senior vice president of...
[April 2, 2001, 16:26]
