Chip giant Intel is reportedly posed to get Apple’s attention with its future chips. TSMC’s recent demonstration of a 3.1 GHz ARM Cortex A9 dual core chip is certainly more impressive than the empty statements of Intel’s CEO Paul Otellini : “Our job is to ensure our silicon is so compelling, in terms off...
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...
At this year’s IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), IMEC has showcased a fully functional Resistive RAM (RRAM) cell measuring 10-nm by 10-nm, which the organization claims is the smallest such cell to be developed yet. RRAM is one of the emerging technologies for nonvolatile memory to be researched by scientists and is believed...
We have known for quite some time now that the start of 2012 will mark the introduction of AMD’s Radeon HD 7900-series of GPUs based on the Next-Generation Core (NGC) architecture, but recently a leak has come to unveil the approximate release dates and prices of these graphics cards. The report comes from the...
At the end of last week, we reported that AMD is planning to launch its upcoming high-end Radeon HD 7900 graphics cards based on the Tahiti architecture in January of 2012, but reports suggest that the Sunnyvale-based chip maker has run into a series of production problems that could postpone the release of these...
Awaited with great interest by gamers and enthusiasts alike, AMD’s Tahiti graphics cores, which will most probably arrive in the company’s Radeon HD 7900 product line, are expected to get released in January of 2012, according to a recent report. Graphics cards based on the Tahiti GPU will come as a replacement for the...
Despite how many times TSMC and Globalfoundries come forward to assure everyone that they don’t expect problems with the 28nm technology, rumors and reports are emerging about it anyway. In fact, the latest such report says that yield issues and defect densities are already being run into. This doesn’t really fit with how TSMC,...
As we get nearer to the end of 2011, it seems like more and more sources are starting to imply that AMD’s next-generation Radeon HD 7000 graphics cards won’t actually get released by the end of this year, but instead will arrive in the first quarter of 2012. This time, the information comes from...
AMD is getting ready for the release of its next-generation Radeon HD 7000 graphics cards as reports suggest the company has already started mass production of these GPUs which are fabricated using TSMC advanced 28nm technology. The official launch of these chips is expected to happen in the first quarter of 2012, according to...
Nvidia seems to be making great progress with its next-generation graphics cards based on the Kepler architecture as a recent report to make its appearance on the Web states that the chip maker is planning to announce these GPUs in December of this year. The DigiTimes report doesn’t explain what it understands when it...
