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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, TSMC estimates that the delays caused by having to shutdown the production lines to remove a virus will cost the company 3% of 3Q18 revenue and 1% in gross margins. They expect to recover by Q42018. This virus outbreak occurred due to misoperation...

If the news out of Taiwan is true it seems TSMC is going to begin mass production of 5nm chips late next year or early 2020. Annual production is estimated to be over 1M 12-inch wafers. That's a lot of 5nm chips for sure. Of course promises are made to be broken and anything can happen between...

An article from The Motley Fool today outlines how Intel's troubled 10nm manufacturing may end up falling even further behind TSMC. Intel had originally planned to release it's 10nm chips in 2016, which was pushed to 2017, then pushed again to 2018, then a few weeks ago 10nm was delayed yet...

TSMC is showing off their new Wafer-on-Wafer (WoW) chip stacking technology and it might be a boon for multichip solutions in the future. The technology allows two dies to sit on top of each other and this allows interconnects to be very short and minimizes transfer times between them. Imagine...

Samsung's foundry business isn't growing as fast as they would like and according to TrendForce it's well below the market average of 7.1% growth. Lack of growth could be because their memory based process isn't ideal for foundry business. Regardless, if Samsung wants to catch up with the...

Chinese company Shanghai Zhaoxin Semiconductor, jointly owned by VIA Technologies and the Shanghai Municipal Government, has announced that the company will be partnering with TSMC to produce it's in house developed 28nm x86 processors, based on Centaur Technology's x86 microarchitecture...