Friday, July 18, 2014

TSMC 20-nm Arrives – The First Shoe Drops

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For us at Chipworks interested in leading edge processes, 2014 so far has been the year of waiting for parts and processes that have been ...
Friday, February 7, 2014

Intel’s e-DRAM Shows up in the Wild

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When Intel launched their Haswell series chips last June, they stated that the high-end systems would have embedded DRAM, as a separate ch...
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Friday, December 6, 2013

IEDM 2013 Preview

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Next week the researchers and practitioners of the electron device world will be gathering in Washington D.C. for the 2013 IEEE Internatio...
Tuesday, November 12, 2013

GLOBALFOUNDRIES to make Apple chips in New York fab?

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I normally don't have the time to follow local press, but occasionally Google Alerts pops up with something quite interesting. In this ...
Saturday, September 21, 2013

Apple A7 uses Samsung’s 28-nm process

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Last week we started tearing down the Apple iPhone 5S. There has been much speculation that Apple would be moving their processor chips over...
Monday, July 29, 2013

Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 and Rockchip RK3188 - Battle of the Foundries!

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The Snapdragon 800  ( Qualcomm MSM8974 )   is Qualcomm’s leading-edge, low-power, mobile phone app’s processor with built-in 3G/4G LTE mode...
Thursday, July 11, 2013

A Dispatch from SEMICON West – Applied Materials Launches Epi System Focused on NMOS Strain

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Flying in to SFO on July 7, I must have been one of many attendees delayed by the after-effects of the Asiana Airlines crash there the day ...