digitimes.com - 10/30/2009
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has revealed it recently run into issues with its 40nm process technology impacting yields. Company chairman and CEO Morris Chang pledged the issue will be solved within the quarter.
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TSMC yield problem to affect Nvidia, ATI
TG Daily - All News —
... percent on the process, but TSMC has promised to get the problem fixed during the current quarter. Customers using TSMC's process are AMD-ATI and Nvidia, said Digitimes , and that may well have an impact on shipping products such as the ATI Radeon 5870 and the Nvidia GT300 series. TSMC takes designs from fabless customers and makes chips, always maintaining a "Chinese Wall" so that details of one set of semiconductors remain largely unknown to competitors. The Digitimes story is here . busy
TSMC Warns About Further Problems with 40nm Process Technology
X-bit labs —
Even though the output of wafers produced at 40nm node quadrupled at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company in Q3 2009, actual yields of chips may be lower than back in Q2. TSMC itself considers the present yield issues logistical problems . According to a news-story from DigiTimes web-site, at present 40nm yields at TSMC are at approximately 40%, down from 60%. This might be an issue with the fact that both ATI, graphics business unit of Advanced Micro Devices, Nvidia Corp. and some other customers have started to produce new designs at TSMC. However, the contract maker ...
TSMC 40nm yield issues to affect AMD and Nvidia
TechSpot —
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the world's largest dedicated independent semiconductor foundry, recently confirmed it has run into new issues with their 40nm process technology that have sent yield rates down to 40% . Major customers for TSMC's 40nm processes include AMD, which just released its Radeon HD 5000 series, and Nvidia, who is expected to launch the GT300 series in December. On first thought the conspiracy theorist in me found this suspiciously untimely for AMD, which for the first time in a long while had a great opportunity to capitalize on its ...
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