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    IP Quality: Foundation of a Successful Ecosystem 

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    Eric Esteve
    Published on 05-08-2013 06:46 AM
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    Talking about Design IP (I mean successful Design IP) lead you to quickly pronounce the two magic key words: Quality and Ecosystem. Those who remember the IP emergence in the mid 90’s know very well why Quality has to be a prerequisite when dealing with Design IP, as they probably have paid the price of mediocre IP quality at that time. More recently, business analysts have realized that the foundation for a successful IP based business was linked to building a complete ...
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    Morris Chang on Altera and Intel 

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    Daniel Nenni
    Published on 04-25-2013 05:00 PM
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    If you want to know why I have written so much about TSMC in the past five years here it is: TSMC executives are approachable, personable, answer questions straight on, and have yet to lead me astray. If you want an example of this read the Chairman’s comments on the TSMC Q1 2013 earnings call transcript.

    “On 16-nanometer FinFET, we have said several times that this is a ...
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    Altera, Intel, TSMC, ARM: the Plot Thickens 

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    Paul McLellan
    Published on 04-16-2013 05:15 PM
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    Vince Hu of Altera presented us her at the GlobalPress Electronics Summit on their process roadmap. Since just a month or two ago they announced that Intel would be their foundry at 14nm, everyone wanted to get a better idea of what was really going on.

    At 28nm, Altera use 2 processes, TSMC 28HP (for high end Stratix-5 devices) and TSMC 28LP for mid-range, low-cost devices.

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    TSMC Responds to Samsung! 

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    Daniel Nenni
    Published on 04-12-2013 08:00 PM
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    This was the 19th annual TSMC Symposium and by far the best I have attended. Finally tired of the misinformation that plagues our industry, TSMC set the record straight with wafer and silicon correlated data. TSMC shipped more than 88 MILLION logic wafers in 2012, more than any other semiconductor company, that gives them significant bragging rights which they rarely exercise. It was standing room only (I counted 1,200+ ...
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    How Long Does it Take to Go From a Muddy Field to Full 28nm Capacity? 

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    Paul McLellan
    Published on 04-09-2013 02:02 PM
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    TSMC has a lot of capacity. Not just that, it has a lot more under construction. It currently has 3 300mm Gigafabs, fabs 12,14 and 15 (there doesn't seem to be a 13). This morning, Dr Wang, who is TSMC's VP of 300mm operations told us about the expansion plans. Currently fab 15 phase 3 and 4, and fab 12 phase 3 are to be ramped this year. Four more phases are under construction. ...
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    FinFET Design Challenges Exposed! 

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    Daniel Nenni
    Published on 04-07-2013 04:00 PM
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    The first mention of FinFETs appeared on SemiWiki after the ISSCC conference in 2011. Dr. Jack Sun, TSMC Vice President of R&D and Chief Technology Officer, spoke about the power crisis the semiconductor industry is facing and FinFETs was one of the promising technologies that could help us. Since then, we have posted 100+ related articles ...
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    TSMC to Talk About 10nm at Symposium Next Week 

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    Daniel Nenni
    Published on 04-02-2013 06:05 PM
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    Given the compressed time between 20nm and 16nm, twelve months versus the industry average twenty four months, it is time to start talking about 10nm, absolutely. Next Tuesday is the 19th annual TSMC Technology Symposium keynoted of course by the Chairman, Dr. Morris Chang.

    Join the 2013 TSMC Technology Symposium. Get the latest on:
    • TSMC's 20nm, 16nm, and
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    TSMC Tapes Out First 64-bit ARM 

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    Paul McLellan
    Published on 04-02-2013 12:15 AM
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    TSMC announced today that together with ARM they have taped out the first ARM Cortex-A57 64-bit processor on TSMC's 16nm FinFET technology. The two companies cooperated in the implementation from RTL to tape-out over six months using ARM physical IP, TSMC memory macros, and a commercial 16nm FinFET tool chain enabled by TSMC's open innovation platform (OIP). ...
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    Samsung 28nm Still Does Not Yield? 

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    Daniel Nenni
    Published on 03-31-2013 05:00 PM
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    As if Samsung didn’t have enough to worry about with their new neighbor to the North (Korea) declaring war, Samsung 28nm is still NOT yielding. In my previous blog “Can Samsung Deliver as Promised?” I wondered what will power the new Galaxy S4 phones that Samsung has been aggressively marketing. You would think it would be a 28nm version of the Exynos 5 Octa SoC ...
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    TSMC on Collaboration: JIT Ecosystem Development 

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    Paul McLellan
    Published on 03-27-2013 12:02 PM
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    Cliff Hou of TSMC gave the keynote today at SNUG on Collaborate to Innovate: a Foundry's Perspective. Starting around 45nm the way that a foundry has to work with its ecosystem fundamentally changed. Up until then, each process generation was similar enough to the previous one, apart obviously from size, that it could be designed with the EDA tools already out there. Yes, new factors like signal integrity would ...
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