CHIPS & AI
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09/05/2014
Intel 14nm: The First Crack in the Metronome
Intel 14nm arrived late in Broadwell, the first schedule slip in a decade. The node was still the best in the world, but the…
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INTEL
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10/06/2013
Intel à La Gaîté Lyrique
Dans mon travail, j’ai la chance de pouvoir participer à des événements bien sympathiques (PGW, Show,…) Dans ce cas, c’est une soirée effectuée par…
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CHIPS & AI
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04/29/2012
Intel 22nm: Tri-Gate and a Three-Year FinFET Lead
Intel 22nm shipped Tri-Gate in Ivy Bridge, the first FinFET in volume production, three years ahead of the foundries, with Intel promising 14nm next…
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CHIPS & AI
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10/17/2011
TSMC’s 28nm Node, Gate-Last HKMG, and the FinFET Clock
TSMC's 28nm node brought gate-last high-k metal gate just as every mobile chip designer arrived at once, triggering a capacity crunch, while Intel's Tri-Gate…
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CHIPS & AI
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06/20/2011
SMIC 45nm: The Mature-Node Foundry Finds Its Floor
SMIC 45nm was the company's most current node yet, reached two years behind the leaders, the year after SMIC turned its first profit since…
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APPLE
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06/08/2010
Samsung 45nm: Building the Apple A4 for a Rival
Samsung 45nm silicon built the Apple A4, Apple's first in-house chip, on the same Intrinsity Hummingbird core Samsung put in the Galaxy S, even…
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CES
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01/07/2010
Intel 32nm: The Metronome at Full Speed
Intel 32nm arrived on schedule with second-generation high-k metal gate and Intel's first immersion lithography, extending a two-year lead while the company quietly ceded…
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CHIPS & AI
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10/19/2009
TSMC’s 40nm Node: When Immersion Lithography Became a Yield Crisis
TSMC's 40nm node turned immersion lithography into a yield crisis in 2009, choked AMD and Nvidia GPU supply, drew Morris Chang back as CEO,…
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CHIPS & AI
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11/12/2007
Intel 45nm: The High-k Metal Gate Breakthrough
Intel 45nm shipped the first high-k metal gate transistor in volume, hafnium dielectric and metal gates built gate-last on dry 193nm litho, solving gate…
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CHIPS & AI
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10/13/2006
TSMC’s 65nm Node and the Quiet Bet Behind the Foundry Model
TSMC's 65nm is ramping into volume in 2006. The real story isn't density, it's leakage, the rising cost of every node, and the foundry-model…
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CHIPS & AI
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06/20/2006
SMIC 90nm: Climbing on Borrowed Knowledge
SMIC 90nm put the Shanghai foundry two nodes behind the leaders and closing, climbing alone on imported tools and hired talent while the settled…
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