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TSMC founder says Tim Cook told him Intel did not know how to be a foundry
The company considered using Intel Custom Foundry (ICF) and Texas Instruments but quickly realized the ICF was not tailored ...
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TSMC's first new overseas fab in years begins to make chips — JASM coming online
TSMC has commenced mass production at its ... performance-hungry applications that can take advantage of FinFET transistors. While 16nm-28nm-class fabrication processes are considered outdated ...
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Cadence USB 3.0 Host Solution on TSMC 16nm FinFET Plus Process Achieves Industry Certification
May 12, 2015 -- Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS) today announced that its USB 3.0 host IP solution for TSMC’s 16nm FinFET Plus (16FF+) process is one of the first to pass USB-IF compliance ...
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TSMC and ARM set new benchmarks for performance and power efficiency with first announced FinFET silicon with 64-bit ARM big.LITTLE technology
Hsinchu, Taiwan and Cambridge, UK – September 30, 2014 – TSMC and ARM® today announced the results from a key FinFET silicon validation of the ARM big.LITTLE TM implementation, using ARM Cortex®-A57 ...
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Integrating 16nm FPGA Into 28/22nm SoC Without Losing Speed Or Flexibility
InferX is running at 533MHz in TSMC 16nm for models like Yolov3 ... the tile is reconfigured with the optimal connections between the 16 TPUs for the next operator. For finFET SoCs, fast FPGAs can be ...
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US bans sales of 14nm and 16nm chips with over 30 billion transistors to China
The U.S. government plans to unveil stricter regulations to block shipments of advanced processors made by TSMC ... rely on FinFET transistors and, therefore, on 14nm, 16nm, or more advanced ...
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Foundries Face Challenges in 2016
“So, there will be continued price competition in this space.” While foundries expand their 16nm/14nm processes, Intel, Samsung and TSMC are also separately developing 10nm finFET processes. Foundries ...
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US bans sales of 14nm and 16nm chips with over 30 billion transistors to China
The U.S. government plans to unveil stricter regulations to block shipments of advanced processors made by TSMC, GlobalFoundries ... Virtually all modern processors rely on FinFET transistors and, ...