Rumors are "Misunderstanding"

Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has denied claims of aiding Intel in resolving its "foundry matters," dismissing such assertions as a "mere misunderstanding."

For chip manufacturers, not Sony

Reuters broke an exclusive story about Intel losing the PlayStation 6 deal to AMD. My argument is that it is hard to lose something that you didn’t have. What actually happened is that Intel simply didn’t want to go lower than AMD to secure the deal. The process is called negotiation. Sony as any other business will give the business away to a competitor at a lower price than it is paying right now.  

If they can make them there, they can make them anywhere

On Monday, the world's largest plant for making silicon carbide chips was opened in central New York.

Conditio sine qua non

After weeks of speculation, TSMC has officially confirmed that Taiwan based TSMC announced its intention to build and operate an advanced semiconductor fab in Arizona, United States.

Arriving on platform 9

TSMC vice chairman and CEO C.C. Wei announced the company's plans for 5 nm are on track, which means High Volume Manufacturing (HVM) on the node is expected to be achieved by 2Q 2020.

35 million ARM vs 1.6 million "other“ wafers

There is one big change that is happening in the manufacturing equipment industry and ARM used its ARMTechCon to educate us about the big change. Drew Henry, SVP of infrastructure at ARM, pointed out in its presentation that ARM silicon wafer production ends up in 35 million wafers.

New packaging for its back end

TSMC is attempting to get approval to build a new advanced packaging Fab in Taiwan.

Doing a lot of work in Quantum Computing

We had a chance to chat with the Tom Sonderman,  the president of SkyWater - a  new/old US owned and operated semiconductor Fab. These guys can make a lot of interesting IoT, automotive and even quantum processing units and what makes it unique is that it is US owned and operated. 

Not the US

As we predicted,TSMC will build the 'world's first' semiconductor plant to support the creation of 3nm node silicon chips in Taiwan.

Doing the deals to cut the ribbon

TSMC is close to striking deals with a number of equipment, materials and components companies that will support production at its new 12-inch plant in Nanjing, China.