Tuesday, July 10, 2012

The Elephant Has Left the Room – 450 mm is a Go!

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It's the day before Semicon opens up, and we have had a slew of announcements on 450 mm, the biggest of which was the joint ASML / Intel...
Friday, July 6, 2012

Sony’s PS Vita Uses Chip-on-Chip SiP – 3D, but not 3D

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At the tail end of last year Sony released their PlayStation Vita , and it was duly torn down by iFixit and others. In due course we took i...
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Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Intel’s 22-nm Trigate Transistors Exposed

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Last week Intel had their Q1 conference call for financial analysts, and revealed that the 22-nm Ivy Bridge parts would make up 25% of t...
Thursday, April 12, 2012

Intel to Present on 22-nm Tri-gate Technology at VLSI Symposium

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Just published is the press release and tip-sheet on the 2012 VLSI Symposia on VLSI Technology and Circuits, this year in Hawaii. Listed fir...
Monday, April 2, 2012

Dialog Semi Gets the Girls for Apple

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Over the years we have looked at a number of products from Apple, and in their mobile products we have seen a continuous series of design wi...
Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Semicon China – SMIC Shows off 28-nm HKMG Development

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Another foundry goes gate-last In the opening keynote at Semicon China today, Dr. Tzu-Yin Chiu, CEO of SMIC, gave a run-through of their t...
Sunday, March 18, 2012

GloFo’s FinFETS are Better than Intel's! Musings from CPTF

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This confident statement came from Subramani (Subi) Kengeri of GLOBALFOUNDRIES (GloFo) during the panel session in the GloFo/IBM/Samsung Com...