Ever since Intel told me that 22nm wasn’t a measurement of anything in particular, I’ve rather wondered about all these process technology claims from the leading practitioners.
I see TSMC is now saying it’s going to have risk production on 16nm finfet this year…
All sorts of things have been used to claim bragging rights in the chip business: cleanliness of your fab; shortness of your gate length; density of your memory; speed of your processor and, now, the number of cores on your IC.
Earlier this week it was reported that Qualcomm CEO…
Intel is adopting a ‘shrewd strategy’ in going for the low-cost smartphone market, says IHS.
Is it really ‘shrewd’ to go for the low-cost market if you can’t get into the high-cost market?
Or is it the only place for Intel to go?
Intel doesn’t…
Can you trust an SIA forecast? The SIA, naturally, does what its members tell it to do. He who pays the piper calls the tune.
And SIA’s members do not want too high an expectation put by their trade body on market expectations. If members’ own sales don’t…
ST CEO Carlo Bozotti told the GSA Forum this week that he has a dream.
Bozotti said that ST’s business rested on “two pillars.”
“My dream is two have the two pillars be successful. We have a $1 billion microcontroller business; a $900 million MEMS business; this is nice…
There’s something a bit Alice-in-Wonderland about the statements coming out of STMicroelectronics and ST-Ericsson.
Recently we had STMicro’s US boss saying that ST-Ericsson will produce a plan for getting out of its troubles “in the next period.” Goodness knows what “next period” means, but…
Thanks to OSXDaily for this one – the ten biggest things Apple is worth more than:
All 32 Eurozone Banks
The Economy of Singapore
All of the Illegal Drugs in the World
Total U.S. Corporate Income Tax for 2011
The GDP of Denmark
The Great Wall of China (priced at…
A few years back you couldn’t go anywhere without hearing someone say: ‘Advanced digital CMOS is now a commodity – available in any foundry’.
Usually this pronouncement came from financial people – bankers’ analysts and the like. These guys, befuddled by numbers, pushed IDMs to go fab-lite.
The financial community…