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A Year Ago: Digital settles with Intel, loses fabs, keeps Alpha
News Digital Equipment Corp.will sell its semiconductor manufacturing operations to Intel Corp.for about $700 million, settling a series of patent suits between the two companies. Under the terms of the deal, Digital will agree to support Intel's 64-bit...
[October 26, 1998, 5:40]
AMD attempts to track down overheating Opterons
Talkback Keep in mind that AMD only owns a few fabs. The rest of them are from third-party fabs in Taiwan. Yep, what you pay is what you get. After many complaints AMD finally decided to do something about it.
[May 3, 2006, 23:10]
It Takes Advanced Manufacturing Technology to Make a Native Multi-Core Processor
White Papers The paper explores how its patented APM (Automated Precision Manufacturing) technologies enhance the speed, accuracy, and agility of production facilities (known in the industry as "Fabs"). Next, the paper discusses how AMD introduces new...
[March 1, 2007, 0:00]
AMD to open third processor factory in 2004
News Unlike AMD's current microprocessor fabs in Austin, Texas, and Dresden, Germany, the plant will be used to process chips out of 300mm diameter wafers. Unlike software developers who can replicate their products at will, semiconductor companies need...
[January 9, 2001, 8:47]
Flat-panel prices drop as popularity rises
News LCD supplies increased throughout the second half of last year, as manufacturers -- particularly Korean companies such as Samsung and LG -- aggressively built new fabs capable of manufacturing larger, cheaper LCDs, iSuppli said.
[April 3, 2003, 16:19]
Intel's got fab plans to cut costs
News These fabs will run 24 hours a day and have the capacity to churn out millions of chips. That will begin to change next year when the chip behemoth opens its first 90-nanometre fabs. Fabs, the factories where chips are made, now cost more than $2bn...
[September 16, 2002, 9:32]
NXP to shed up to 4,500 jobs
News NXP is also closing parts of its fabs in Nijmegen and Hamburg, while shifting most of its manufacturing operations to those factories and to its fab in Singapore. In a press release, NXP said it would be increasing "the loading in the remaining...
[September 12, 2008, 17:11]
New AMD factory ups the ante against Intel
News Fabs cost billions to erect and fill with equipment. Efficient manufacturing techniques and its meticulous "copy exactly" philosophy for building fabs have been significant pillars in Intel's rise, according to, among others, chairman Craig Barrett...
[October 14, 2005, 11:45]
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. Semiconductor manufacturers are also contending with price wars and depressed revenue, a combination that...
[July 24, 2002, 6:27]
The Day Ahead: Chatting with Applied Materials
News Copper: Like the transition to 300mm fabs, copper usage in chips could be a big boost to Applied. The transition to 200mm fabs took three to five years to complete. In an interview with ZDII, Morgan outlined the long-term issues: mm fabs: The...
[November 16, 2000, 11:57]
Surprise: Intel demos 1.5GHz processor
News This is two fabs in addition to the four Intel currently has up and running on 0.18-micron. However, he said the company will increase its manufacturing capacity in order to have six manufacturing plants, known as fabs, up and running on its 0.18...
[February 16, 2000, 9:42]
Chip recovery will start in 2002 - analyst
News Many companies, including chipmaker Intel, have halted ongoing construction, put off plans to begin building new fabs (chipmaking plants) or closed older fabs in efforts to control costs. Advanced Micro Devices, for example, announced plans last...
[October 31, 2001, 15:53]
Intel gives up the gigahertz
Talkback What goes around, comes around - It's about time Intel suffered at the hands of it's own marketing after all the years of mis-information it has propogated against other chip fabs whose processors were "obviously slower" than theirs!
[March 15, 2004, 9:09]
Samsung to share IBM's chips
News Building chip fabs is also getting more expensive all the time. Fabs now cost between $2bn and $3bn (£1.08bn and £1.62bn) to construct. IBM and Samsung Electronics have signed a trio of chip technology-sharing agreements that could result in more...
[March 8, 2004, 9:30]
Apple makes the move to Intel
Talkback There are presently four (count 'em : four) FABs in the world that can make 90nm or 65nm processors with 300 million transistors. Intel owns 3 of them! IBM hitched its wagon to the Games console manufacturers.so this was bount to happen if Apple is...
[June 7, 2005, 16:29]
Martin Veitch's Diary
News OK, NEC fabs the things but a quick glance at UK tech stocks has you reaching for any crumbs of comfort. At least going to work is reason not to visit Allied Carpets and Wickes DIY centres. Tuesday Always good to see UK computer companies doing...
[August 30, 1997, 8:00]
LCD screen shortage pushes up prices
News Capacity now coming online from fifth-generation LCD fabs (fabrication plants) is being sucked up in a perfect storm of panel demand," Alexander wrote. Surging demand for notebook computers, televisions and desktop PC monitors have spurred a...
[October 17, 2003, 12:00]
Intel finalises design of Penryn chip
News They aren't out of the fab yet, but they are in the fab," said Mark Bohr, director of process technology at Intel, referring to chip factories, known as "fabs". Intel has completed the design of Penryn, a 45-nanometre (nm) chip that will be out...
[November 30, 2006, 8:43]
Chipmakers face massive consolidation
News To survive, large and costly fabs will need to achieve significant economies of scale, and they will require high volumes of chip production, preferably standard chips that can be produced in a standardised environment with large batch sizes.
[September 16, 2004, 9:40]
Japanese companies may form a super-foundry
News The semiconductor business is growing, but the increasing cost to build chip factories, also called fabs, means all but a few chipmakers are relying on partnerships instead of in-house manufacturing. Hitachi, Toshiba and Renesas are considering...
[December 29, 2005, 9:55]
