Friday, July 22, 2011

A SEMICON West snippet: AMAT launches new products, prepares for 450mm

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SEMICON West is usually taken as a barometer for the industry, and my subjective impression is steaming along nicely, but no record breaking...
Tuesday, July 12, 2011

TSMC HKMG is Out There!

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I have to apologise for a hiatus in posting due to pressure from the day job, but this week is Semicon West week, so it seems appropriate t...
Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Intel Goes Tri-Gate at 22-nm!

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In a pair of press and analyst briefings this morning, Mark Bohr and Steve Smith announced that Intel will indeed be using a 3D transistor s...
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Tuesday, April 26, 2011

A Shameless Plug for ASMC

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Winter is finally starting to fade in Ottawa, and the early signs of spring are showing. The maple sap is running, the first migrant birds h...
Monday, March 21, 2011

Panasonic Gate-First HKMG also First Out of the Gate

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As I suggested a few months ago , we put some credence in Panasonic’s press release last September that they would be shipping their first...
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Sunday, March 13, 2011

Apple's A5 Processor is by Samsung, not TSMC

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 Forty-eight hours ago we obtained an iPad 2 and brought it back to the lab, and took it apart to have a look at Apple's A5 processor c...
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Thursday, February 17, 2011

How to Get 5 Gbps Out of a Samsung Graphics DRAM

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It’s well known that electronics games buffs like their image creation as realistic (or at least as cinema-like) as possible, which in image...