UMC plans speeding up 18nm process development
Published in News


Will allow Chinese 28nm products

UMC is considering a plan to speed up a shift to the 18nm process at its fabs in Taiwan.

Spreadtrum guns for 14nm FinFET
Published in PC Hardware
Wednesday, 27 May 2015 11:50

Spreadtrum guns for 14nm FinFET


Piggy backing on Intel foundry

China's Spreadtrum, which is tied to Intel's foundry business, is gunning for 14nm FinFET, with sights set on 10nm.

Zen is 40 percent faster than Excavator
Published in PC Hardware
Wednesday, 06 May 2015 21:04

Zen is 40 percent faster than Excavator


2016, FinFET 14nm product

AMD is in the middle of the financial conference call and update where Lisa Su, Mark Papermaster and a few others are talking about AMD between now and 2017. 

AMD has three new desktop 14nm parts in 2016
Published in PC Hardware


After 28/32nm comes 14nm Zen line

AMD has an update for investors and this information was supposed to get to them at the financial conference call scheduled for May. It got out a bit earlier than that and gave us some insight into AMD's plans for 2016.

AMD x86 16-core ZEN APU to fight Core i7
Published in PC Hardware
Wednesday, 22 April 2015 11:05

AMD x86 16-core ZEN APU to fight Core i7


Greenland APU gives it the necessary firepower

AMD mini cores and modular designs backed by HBM graphics and the upcoming Greenland GPU core might be a winning combination for AMD.

AMD Greenland 2016 is a 14nm GPU
Published in Graphics
Wednesday, 22 April 2015 09:04

AMD Greenland 2016 is a 14nm GPU


Focused on low power

Greenland is the successor of Fiji, and we don’t think it will be radically new core. The main goal for Greenland is to bring more performance per watt to AMD GPUs in 2016. 

GlobalFoundries clarifies 14nm plans
Published in News
Wednesday, 08 April 2015 12:22

GlobalFoundries clarifies 14nm plans


Still tweaking its gear

GlobalFoundries clarified details of the ramp up of 14nm chip production at fab 8 manufacturing facility in New York.

GlobalFoundries surprises with 14nm announcement
Published in PC Hardware


Thanks to Samsung

GlobalFoundries has started its ramp up in production of 14nm technology and it is mostly thanks to its partnership with Samsung.

Galaxy S6 gutted, plenty of chips inside
Published in Mobiles
Monday, 06 April 2015 12:08

Galaxy S6 gutted, plenty of chips inside


Samsung 333 modem too

It was just a matter of time before we saw Samsung's Galaxy S6 inside out, to find what are the parts that are powering the latest Korean flagship. 

Skylake Mobile Celerons coming in Q4 15
Published in AI
Thursday, 26 March 2015 09:50

Skylake Mobile Celerons coming in Q4 15


Pentium, Core M, Core i3, i5 and i7 too

It looks like Intel will be ready with Celeron and Pentium versions of Skylake before the end of the year.