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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, BUSINESS
ANALYSIS
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On the conference call regarding the Wafer Supply Agreement for 2012, AMDs CFO Thomas Seifert delivered a few interesting statements that reveal some small details regarding the roadmap going forward.
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HARDWARE, SOFTWARE, BUSINESS
ANALYSIS
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Californians think they have the corner on Silicon Valley, but similar congregations exist in France, Germany, India, and Canada. Even Russia is getting into the act.
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HARDWARE, BUSINESS
NEWS
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On Wednesday, AMD announced preliminary third quarter results which significantly lowered the expectations for the third quarter ending on October 1st.
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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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On IEEE SOI Conference in Foster City [CA], the company showed test results from 45nm SOI wafer featuring ARM 1176 core. Results are quite tempting...
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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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