TSMC has just announced that the company maintains its plans to begin chip trial production using 450mm wafers in the 2013-2014 timeframe, with volume fabrication being scheduled to start as soon as 2015. The foundry told DigiTimes that it expects to have about 95% of its 450mm production equipment and facilities installed in 2014...
Looks like Intel’s past misses are coming back to haunt the Santa Clara, California-based company as it is preparing to try its hand (again) at the smartphone and tablet markets. By now, people should be well aware of how Intel is really serious about entering the mobile market. That means the market of handsets,...
Nvidia has high hopes for its recently launched Tegra 3 system-on-a-chip (SoC) device as in 2012 it plans to ship no less than 25 million such chips, which could make it more popular than the previous iteration of Tegra. These SoC are supposed to go into smartphones, tablet PCs and automobiles, according to industry...
Even though Intel hasn’t committed on any specific launch date for its upcoming Ivy Bridge processors and settled with saying that these will arrive in March or April of 2012, a recent report has now made its appearance that suggests the Santa Clara chips maker is considering March for the release of the chips....
Expected by computer enthusiasts and overclockers alike, Intel’s processors based on the Sandy Bridge-E architecture were specially designed in order to provide an impressive overclocking headroom, and the Santa Clara chips maker doesn’t disappoint as its upcoming CPUs will be able to reach in theory speeds up to 9.5GHz. The information surfaced thanks to...
The transition to the 28nm fabrication process seems to take Nvidia longer than expected since the latest rumors to arrive suggest the Santa Clara graphics chips maker won’t start the production of the first GPU based on this advanced node until December of 2011. The first 28 graphics chips to enter mass production are...
Nvidia has high hopes for its Kal-El+ system-on-a-chip that is supposed to improve on the specs of the first iteration of Kal-El, since it expects the SoCs to be used not only in tablet computers, but also in entry-level notebooks. This way, Nvidia hopes that it will be able to capitalize on the launch...
