TSMC confirms the reign of Liu and Wei
Replacing Morris Chang with two heads
TSMC has announced Mark Liu (right), currently co-CEO and president of the pure play foundry, has been promoted to chairman effective immediately. CC Wei (left), the other co-CEO and president of TSMC, has been named as CEO and vice chairman of TSMC.
Wafer price rises hit foundry firms
Massive demand for chips
The price of silicon wafers is set to rise by as much as 20 percent this year because of increasing demand from the automotive and other sectors.
TSMC starts work on Apple's A12
7nm
The dark satanic rumour mill has started a hell on earth yarn claiming that TSMC has started work on Apple's custom built Apple A12 CPU built on a 7-nm process.
TSMC to post record profits
Despite a downturn in Apple sales
Despite the fact that Apple lost sales on its over-priced iPhone X, its number one partner TSMC is rumoured to be about to score record profits in 2018.
TSMC cuts growth forecast
Weaker smartphone demand
TSMC has cut its revenue growth forecast for 2018 to 10 percent from the previously estimated 10-15 percent claiming that there is weaker than expected smartphone demand and growing uncertainty facing the cryptocurrency mining market.
MediaTek launched Helio P60
Helio P70 coming
MediaTek has announced the successor to the Helio P30, and the brand number has doubled. Meet the Helio P60, an octa device with Cortex A73 and Cortex A53 combination.
TSMC starts work on new 5nm plant
3nm will be on the same site in 2020
TSMC will break ground this week for the construction of its new 5nm fab in the Southern Taiwan Science Park (STSP), where its 3nm fab is believed to see construction start in 2020.
TSMC revenues to grow by at least ten percent this year
Taken all of the world’s 7nm process fabrication orders
TSMC will see its revenues grow 10-15 percent in 2018, thanks to high-performance computing, automotive electronics and IoT applications.
TSMC might outpace Samsung on 7nm
Secured orders from 40 big customers
TSMC is set to take Samsung to the cleaners this year in the race to 7nm process volume production.
Nvidia will have two big GPUs in 2018
Ampere and the gaming GPU
There have been many reports that Nvidia’s next generation technology will be codenamed Ampere and we want to set one thing straight. The successor of Volta is an AI/ML chip and not a GPU - just like Volta never was.