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 ...

According to a new report that just surfaced, Huawei’s upcoming Kirin 980 flagship SoC will be made using TSMC’s 7nm FinFet process. As most of you know by now, the Kirin 970 is Huawei’s current-gen ...

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 ...