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HARDWARE
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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
INTERVIEWS
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BUSINESS
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ATIC and GlobalFoundries announced new leadership to drive the company through 2012. New CEO, Executive Chairman, Vice Chairman are all in to help control the flow of ATIC's investment.
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HARDWARE, BUSINESS
NEWS
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The seemingly headless AMD yesterday announced an amendment to their Wafer Supply Agreement (WSA) with GlobalFoundries. New deal shifts AMD from "per wafer" to "per good die", protecting it from bad yields.
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GRAPHICS, HARDWARE
NEWS
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Following the abysmal state of samples and bare-naked ASICs among AMD's partners, we all knew the launch of Cayman series was heading into a delay. New Launch date is set in the week starting 2010-12-13.
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HARDWARE, BUSINESS
ANALYSIS
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Following market closure on Wednesday, nVidia reported its fourth Quarter results as well as last year's total figures.
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HARDWARE, BUSINESS
NEWS
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TSMC just announced that it will launch a process qualification specification and service package for automotive-grade semiconductor manufacturing, a first for the auto-industry.
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HARDWARE, BUSINESS
ANALYSIS
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After Wall Street Journal broke the story that AMD's inside trader was no other than AMD's president and CEO, Hector Ruiz was forced into a Coup de Grace…
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HARDWARE, BUSINESS
NEWS
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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
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ARM is moving forward with its plans to work with GlobalFoundries on their new generation of 40nm SoC chips. Should Intel and NVIDIA be afraid?
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BUSINESS
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After reading a story on ATI-Forum, we wondered could there be any truth to the alleged claim that 40nm yields are still screwed up. We asked our sources and...
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HARDWARE, BUSINESS
NEWS
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The chilling prospect of nVidia adding GlobalFoundries to their foundry mix and decreasing TSMC's share caused TSMC to re-focus and pushes the 28nm process forward.
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GRAPHICS, HARDWARE, BUSINESS
ANALYSIS
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nVidia has made a statement that they are in talks with GlobalFoundries for future GPU production. But are they really moving? Or just giving TSMC a good scare...
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BUSINESS
ANALYSIS
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There are lots of behind the scene maneuvers by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (TSMC) to maintain their top ranked status in the fab world. The threat of GlobalFoundries is above their heads...
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HARDWARE, BUSINESS
INTERVIEWS
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GlobalFoundries is the new player on the foundry market - we decided to dig down deep and find out how they differ from current foundries? We interview Tom Sonderman, VP of Manufacturing Systems.
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BUSINESS
NEWS
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24 hours after GlobalFoundries announced that they've poached Mojy Chian, Altera exec connected to TSMC; we received word that Subramani Kengeri exiled from TSMC.
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HARDWARE, BUSINESS
ANALYSIS
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Weekend conversations are the best… you start discussion with Star Trek, end up with timeframe TSMC has to improve 40nm yields.
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