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HARDWARE, BUSINESS
NEWS
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When going against the company, most competitors attack process technology and claim they are better. Today, ARM and TSMC announced 64-bit silicon built on most advanced node TSMC has to offer.
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ENTERPRISE, BUSINESS
NEWS
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Today Intel announced the retirement of Paul Otellini, who will leave Intel in May 2013, following his almost 40 years of service at the company.
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HARDWARE
NEWS
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Thursday, September 20, GlobalFoundries announced a 14-nanometer (nm) XM PDK (eXtreme Mobility Process Development Kit) featuring FinFET three-dimensional transistors. Customer tape out is expected in early 2013.
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HARDWARE, BUSINESS
ANALYSIS
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Soitec announced a comprehensive product roadmap centered on fully depleted (FD) silicon technology. They are aiming for the magic 3-way combo: better performance, less power consumption, and cheaper manufacturing.
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HARDWARE, ENTERPRISE, BUSINESS
ANALYSIS
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HARDWARE, BUSINESS
RUMORS
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At the Common Platform Technology Forum 2012, held today in Santa Clara, CA - we have confirmed our suspicions: Qualcomm and NVIDIA passed the point of impatience with TSMC.
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HARDWARE
NEWS
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At the Common Platform Technology Forum 2012 held in Santa Clara, CA - Common Platform members announced their intention to switch from planar to 3D transistors by 2015.
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HARDWARE, ENTERPRISE
RUMORS, NEWS
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In the next five years, Intel plans to launch no less than eight CPU architectures, keeping its annual cadence intact. We dug out some interesting information about the upcoming parts.
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HARDWARE, BUSINESS
NEWS
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HARDWARE
NEWS
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The Wall Street Journal passed out their Technology Innovation Awards. They stuck with known electronics brands, IBM, HP, Xerox and eInk for first place slots, Novartis for tracking medical supplies, and Abbott Labs.
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HARDWARE
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During Paul Otellini's keynote at IDF 2011, Intel's CEO mentioned that the company has completed work on the development of Haswell, it's next generation architecture - set for launch in 2013.
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HARDWARE, BUSINESS
NEWS, RUMORS
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According to DigiTimes, quoting TSMC’s R&D boss Shang-yi Chiang, TSMC will begin volume production on 14nm in 2015. GlobalFoundries has similar plans, but you have to read between the lines.
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HARDWARE
NEWS
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Following the GlobalFoundries Technology Conference, there is a lot of confusion on the status of SOI processing nodes before the arrival of Fully-Depleted Extra-Thin SOI with the 14nm process.
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HARDWARE
NEWS
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GlobalFoundries recently lost their Head of Communications, Jon Carvill. As it usually happens with such departures, it was only a matter of time until a top tier company would offer a better package.
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HARDWARE
ANALYSIS
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Recently, Intel held a 22nm Manufacturing Update event in Munich, Germany. The company proudly presented the new Tri-Gate (a.k.a. 3D) transistor which will be the base for building Ivy Bridge CPUs.
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GRAPHICS, HARDWARE
NEWS
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In the Q&A session of last weeks first quarter 2011 earnings call of AMD, the interim CEO Thomas Seifert made an interesting statement: "We expect several 28-nanometer tape-outs during the current quarter."
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