Intel Is at a Crossroads
…play foundry like TSMC and its various customers. Intel CPUs are designed specifically for Intel process nodes, using a restricted, Intel-specific set of rules intended to maximize performance and energy efficiency…
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What's rolling out in 2016?
New 28nm options for RF and eNVM (embedded non-volatile memory); 14nm LPC: A third-generation cost-optimized 14nm process node. 14nm will also get an RF option as an add-on this year; 10nm: Samsung will debut a 10nm LPP (Low Power Plus) with 10% better performance than Low Power Early. A few notes on these milestones: When a foundry says its ramping a product solution, that doesn't mean that technology is actually ready for shipping customer designs yet. There's a significant lag time depending on product family, foundry space, and customer validation -- Apple bought early 14nm production
Samsung: Full speed ahead for 10nm, EUV deploys at the 7nm nodeIntel, AMD Reportedly Fighting for Capacity at TSMC
…TSMC announced their 6nm process last year, it typically takes about 12 months to ramp up for volume manufacturing, and that means the node could be ready for production soon. In a…
Rumor: Nvidia's Volta to be built on TSMC's 'new' 12nm process
…TSMC's 12nm process will undoubtedly deliver some improvements over its 16FF+ node, but it's not going to be the same as a full-node shrink, and the improvements may range…
Samsung's Austin Foundry Is Still Offline, More Than 2 Weeks Later
…Samsung's 14nm process, with iterations of that node available in the same plant down to 11nm. Power was not restored to the facility until last Saturday, and the company is still…
TSMC still struggling with 28nm, Qualcomm and Nvidia threaten to jump ship
TSMC, the world's largest semiconductor foundry, has issued a warning about continuing lackluster performance of its 28-nanometer process. In recent weeks, Nvidia has threatened to leave TSMC, and Qualcomm has…
China May Launch Chip Consortium to Challenge Intel, AMD
…EUV (Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography) is a fundamentally new lithography technology now rolling out at the most advanced semiconductor process nodes. TSMC and Samsung have both deployed EUV in their latest nodes. Intel…
Microsoft's new Project Scorpio Xbox could blow the PS4 Pro out of the water, challenge high-end PCs
…Image by Digital Foundry Microsoft includes an internal power supply for Scorpio rated at 245W. AMD may have benefited from improved process node design at TSMC, since the RX 480 alone would…
Report: Intel Will Outsource Chipset Production to TSMC
…built by TSMC and that foundry handled some of the company's SoFIA chips and manufacturing for the related Rockchip deal (some of the SoFIA tablet and smartphone processors never went into…
Report: Google Tensor Chip Will Use 5nm Process, Samsung to Manufacture
…That affects every aspect of your phone because an SoC includes many major system components like CPU cores, the GPU, digital signal processor, and 5G modem. So, smaller manufacturing processes mean faster…
Intel Has 10nm Fixes for Meltdown, Spectre; May Have Lost Share to AMD in 2017
…Five to six years ago, Intel would quickly point out that one major difference between itself and rival foundries like TSMC was the way it talked about new process nodes. It was…