Samsung cutting prices on 14nm FinFET
Begun the price wars have
It is starting to look like a price war is brewing at the higher end of chip production, with Samsung already negotiating price cuts.
UK University gets its own Fab
Students design chips instead of just living off them
The University of Westminster's Marylebone campus has opened a high tech fabrication lab in central London.
TSMC promises 7nm chips in 2017
Promised you a miracle
TSMC is telling the world that it is optimistic about its abilities to make chips using super thin process technologies.
Powerchip builds Chinese fab
12 inch wafers
Powerchip is to set up a joint-venture fab in the capital city of China's Anhui Province with the Hefei city government the big idea is to build 12-inch wafers and provide foundry services mainly for driver ICs.
Fab equipment spending declining
Will not improve for a couple of years
Intel shows fab transition plans
Work begun on 7nm and 5nm processes
Hamas closes in on Intel plant
Kiryat Gat now a target
Intel planning further expansion at Kiryat Gat
Wants to step up 15 nm production
Renesas has recovered
Back to prequake levels
Apple could be switching fabs
TSMC has better 40nm yields