Honesty about process technology is as rare as hens’ teeth these days, so ST’s CTO appeared as a refreshing incarnation of truth at ST’s investor day in London yesterday.Talking about ST’s 28nm and 14nm second source deal with Globalfoundries, Jean-Marc Chery, ST’s CTO, said…
A way of embedding non-volatile memory in SOCs without needing to use any extra masks or process steps has been developed by eight year-old Chip Memory Technology (CMT).CMT has developed a product it calls ‘LogicFlash’ for 180nm, 160nm and 130nm bulk CMOS logic processes.
‘LogicFlash requires no…
FPGA maker Achronix says it has made the industry’s first SOC using finfets. Achronix is using Intel’s 22nm finfet process.
Achronix’s statement implies that Intel hasn’t yet made an SOC on the 22nm process, despite 22nm being used for volume production since 2011.
Achronix says…
In the general outpouring of euphoria about Intel’s ‘ARM-killer’ – Silvermont – no one seems to have pointed out that it will be made on 22nm – a process that will be two and a half to three years old by the time Silvermont gets to be made on it in…
TSMC, the chip industry’s thermometer, had a great April and is seeing 2013 unfold as a 25% growth year on 2012.
TSMC had $1.7bn April sales revenue – a 23.5% rise on April 2012.
Sales from Jan to the end of April amount to $6.2bn – up 25…
UMC, the No.3 foundry, had Q1 revenue of $931m for net income of $36.8m.
Q4 2012 revenue was $898.66m for a net profit of $37m
Gross margin was 16.2% and operating margin was 1.1%. It had 78% capacity utilisation.
40nm production represented 20% of the…
SiC grew 38% in revenue terms last year to $75m, reports Yole Developpmente, with 30 companies now able to manufacture SiC devices in their own facilities.
Four companies have set up as SiC foundries: Fraunhofer, Ascatron, ISB and Raytheon.
Last year four companies ramped production aggressively – Rohm, ST, GeneSIC and…
MOSIS, the multi-project wafer organisation, is to supply low-cost, low-volume photonic ICs.
MOSIS is supplying photonic ICs via a co-operation with Imec, the Tyndall National R&D Institute of Ireland and ePIXfab – the European Silicon Photonics Platform co-funded by the consisting of the Imec…