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Diversity of chip segments had tempered downturns but no more?

Diversity of chip segments had tempered downturns but no more?
by Robert Maire on 10-29-2015 at 12:00 pm
Categories: Foundries, Semiconductor Advisors

* The Current Downturn is more Broadly Based…
* Back to the “bad old days” of Lemmings off a cliff???
* Its not just a Foundry thing…
* All corners of the chip industry are impacted!!!… Read More

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Delivering Zero Defect Products – EVS Testing

Delivering Zero Defect Products – EVS Testing
by Mark Rioux on 10-28-2015 at 12:00 pm
Categories: Foundries

Competition in the semiconductor product marketplace has grown increasingly difficult as suppliers constantly search for ways to differentiate their products. Customers expect low cost, problem-free product performance. Automotive manufacturers in particular expect zero defects as field failures can prove very costly.… Read More

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Are FinFETs too Expensive for Mainstream Chips?

Are FinFETs too Expensive for Mainstream Chips?
by Daniel Nenni on 10-27-2015 at 7:00 am
Categories: FinFET, Foundries, TSMC

One of the most common things I hear now is that the majority of the fabless semiconductor business will stay at 28nm due to the high cost of FinFETs. I wholeheartedly disagree, mainly because I have been hearing that for many years and it has yet to be proven true. The same was said about 40nm since 28nm HKMG was more expensive, which … Read More

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GlobalFoundries 14nm Process Update

GlobalFoundries 14nm Process Update
by Scotten Jones on 10-26-2015 at 12:00 pm
Categories: Foundries, GlobalFoundries

Last Monday Daniel Nenni and I had a conference call with Jason Gorss and Shubhankar Basu of Global Foundries to get an update on their 14nm process. Shubhankar is the product line manager for 14nm.

Global Foundries 14nm process is a FinFET on bulk process they licensed from Samsung and both companies supply the same process although… Read More

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ARM Keil Ecosystem Integrates Atmel SAM ESV7

ARM Keil Ecosystem Integrates Atmel SAM ESV7
by Eric Esteve on 10-23-2015 at 4:00 pm
Categories: Foundries

Even the best System-on-Chip is useless without software, as well as the best designed S/W needs H/W to flourish. The “old” embedded world has exploded into many emergent markets like IoT, wearable, and automotive is no more restricted to motor control or airbags as innovative products, from entertainment to ADAS are being developed.… Read More

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Profile of an IoT Processor for Industrial, Consumer Markets

Profile of an IoT Processor for Industrial, Consumer Markets
by Majeed Ahmad on 10-19-2015 at 4:00 pm
Categories: Foundries, IoT

The intersection of data with intelligent machines is creating new possibilities in industrial automation, and this new frontier is now being increasingly known as the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). However, if there is a single major stumbling block that is hindering the IoT take-off at the larger industrial scale, … Read More

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SEMI Releases Industry’s First “Global 200mm Fab Outlook to 2018” and Announces Webinar

SEMI Releases Industry’s First “Global 200mm Fab Outlook to 2018” and Announces Webinar
by Deborah GeigerSEMI on 10-19-2015 at 1:30 pm
Categories: Events, Foundries, Semiconductor Services

SEMI, the global industry association advancing the interests of the worldwide electronics supply chain, today (October 19) published a new report, “Global 200mm Fab Outlook to 2018.” According to the report, worldwide 200mm semiconductor wafer fab capacity is forecast at 5.2 million wafer starts per month (wspm) in 2015 and… Read More

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How LETI IP will speed-up GlobalFoundries 22FDX™ ASIC Development

How LETI IP will speed-up GlobalFoundries 22FDX™ ASIC Development
by Eric Esteve on 10-19-2015 at 7:00 am
Categories: FD-SOI, Foundries, GlobalFoundries

GlobalFoundries has positioned FDSOI proposal -22FDX- to provide better performance and power dissipation than competitive FDSOI offers on 28nm node. The FDSOI licensing agreement between LETI and GlobalFoundries is only a couple of months old (July 2015), but the real work has started in Dresden as several engineers from … Read More