Posted March 14, 2013, 12:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Industry News, Apple
Apple's next-generation iPhone processor is rumored to have entered its final stage of design, according to a recent report by Digitimes. Being called the "A7", Apple's upcoming custom silicon is expected to be the next notch in the company's A-series APU…
Despite starting up as a joint venture in 2009, GlobalFoundries and AMD haven't had the best of relationships over the years, with the latter blaming 32nm manufacturing issues for lower-than-expected revenue in 2011. As problems persisted towards the end of…
Posted October 25, 2012, 3:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. posted a record third quarter profit earlier today. The world’s largest contract chip maker earned a net profit of 49.3 billion New Taiwan dollars ($1.69 billion USD), good for a 62 percent jump from a year…
Posted October 15, 2012, 6:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Apple, Industry News
Apple has been trying to reduce their dependence on Samsung for well over a year as the two continue to battle it out in multiple courts across the globe. That’s never been clearer than it is now as a senior…
Posted July 25, 2012, 12:00 PM by Lee Kaelin | Filed in Hardware
ARM Holdings moved a step closer towards increasing competition with leading chipmaker, Intel, after announcing a multi-year agreement with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC) to produce low-power chips for mobile devices and servers.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. has posted their highest quarterly profit in six quarters and the second-highest all time. The company posted sales of $4.2 billion and a net income of $1.4 billion, up 15.9 percent and 16.3 percent from the…
Posted July 5, 2012, 11:30 AM by Lee Kaelin | Filed in Hardware
Qualcomm has enjoyed huge success with its Snapdragon S4 SoC, resulting in such high demand the San Diego-based firm recently said it would be unable to satisfy demand until 2013, forcing them to consider other options...
It seems more troubles await AMD in the microprocessor market. A few days ago rumors started to emerge that the company had cancelled its Wichita and Krishna APUs, the 28nm the successors to its C-Series (codenamed Ontario) and E-Series (codenamed…
Posted October 26, 2011, 8:30 AM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Gaming, Hardware
TSMC announced this week that it has commenced volume production of 28nm silicon and the first wafers have already been shipped to customers. TSMC's 28nm process comes in several variants: High Performance (28HP), 28nm High Performance Low Power (28HPL), 28nm…
We've been hearing rumors that Apple plans to move A6 SoC production away from Samsung in 2012, favoring TSMC instead. The next generation chip is still a bit far off (the iPhone 4 uses an A4 SoC and its successor…
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