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HARDWARE, BUSINESS
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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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In the 1980's, the Mork and Mindy TV series featured a comedic outer space alien played by Robin Williams who said Nanu-Nanu which loosely meant “Hello.” Today, Nano has a seriously different meaning.
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HARDWARE, BUSINESS
NEWS
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HARDWARE
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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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BUSINESS
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We learned that GlobalFoundries is planning to hire 400-500 more employees, about 350 of them will work at Fab 8. 50% of these new hires more than likely will come from New York itself.
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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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GRAPHICS, HARDWARE, BUSINESS
ANALYSIS, RUMORS
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With the architectural previews hitting the wire this week, we took the time to actually look at potential cost of the GF100-based solutions and where the Fermi silicon stands right now.
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GRAPHICS, HARDWARE, BUSINESS
NEWS
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In a recent interview with Middle-Eastern website ITP, President and CEO of AMD re-iterated company's decision to initiate GPU production in GlobalFoundries.
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HARDWARE, BUSINESS
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Following up on their 10 billion USD commitment, TSMC announced the details of their investment plan: 6B USD investment, two Fabs to fight GlobalFoundries.
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HARDWARE, BUSINESS
ANALYSIS
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The majority owner of GlobalFoundries [ATIC] announced that the group wants to acquire Chartered Semiconductor, Singaporean chipmaker. This move has more ramifications that one might think.
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HARDWARE, BUSINESS
NEWS
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GlobalFoundries is in advanced stages of negotiation with several customers, but the first one to publicly sign the outsourcing deal is no other than STMicroelectronics.
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![Qimonda's starts to dissolve, sell family jewlery [300mm and 200mm Fab]](/Thumb.aspx?file=/Data/2009_4_4/Qimondas-starts-to-dissolve2c-sell-family-jewlery\Qimonda_GDDR5_215.jpg "Qimonda's starts to dissolve, sell family jewlery [300mm and 200mm Fab]")
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In a desperate bid to stay afloat, now-bankrupt Qimonda AG decided to look for a buyer of its 300 and 200mm foundries in Virginia, US. This is the first time anybody offered a top-notch 300mm wafer foundry for sale.
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