China's Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) has kicked off volume production of 14nm FinFET chips, and plans to move a newer 12nm FinFET process to risk production by the end of 2019, ...

First collaboration milestone speeds validation of IP and design correlation on UMC's 14-nm FinFET process Process qualification vehicle validates key process and IP test structures Tapeout helps ...

Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) expects to move its first-generation FinFET process technology to risk production in the first half of 2019. Save my User ID and Password Some ...

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Samsung Electronics is introducing a third 14-nano FinFET system semiconductor process that has lower electricity consumption and production cost than previous cost. According to the Electronic Times, ...

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There's been a lot of fear, uncertainty, and doubt going around lately with respect to the progress that the third-party semiconductor foundries have been making on next-generation process ...

Fulfilling the promise of performance and power scaling at 16 nanometers, ARM and Cadence announced details behind their collaboration to implement the first ARM® Cortex®-A57 processor on TSMC’s ...

TSMC president and co-CEO Mark Liu has announced his outfit has begun volume shipment of chips based on its 16-nm FinFET manufacturing process. He added that the ramping of the 16-nm process will be ...

One of the long-term ramifications of the tensions between the US and China has been an acceleration of China's efforts to move its government and corporate users towards natively-produced ...

Samsung isn’t all about smartphone as the world’s top smartphone vendor also has interests in electronics, display panels, and semiconductor manufacture. Samsung is even a leading name in advanced ...

With chip inventories expected to normalize by the end of 2015 and TSMC's (TSM +0.9%) 16nm FinFET manufacturing process due to ramp, co-CEO Mark Liu forecasts the foundry giant will see double-digit ...