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Huawei will continue to receive shipments from TSMC for the next 120 days
The US Department of Commerce has announced yesterday a series of measures to cut the ability of the Chinese group to develop semiconductors abroad using …
US blocks TSMC from supplying HiSilicon Kirin SoCs to Huawei
The ban imposed by the US government on Huawei has complete one year this month. To no one surprise, the Trump administration decided to extend …
Finally!!! TSMC will invest $12 billion to build a 5nm chip factory in the U.S.
In recent times, there have been reports that the U.S. government strongly wants TSMC to start its advanced process production in the U.S. However, for …
Kirin 1000 with 5nm will arrive this year, while Kirin 1100 will launch in 2021
A roadmap has appeared on the Web demonstrating the products that will be produced by TSMC using the 5-nanometer process technology. The release of small …
TSMC has no concrete plan to build factories in the U.S.
It is not really possible to be entirely independent in a manufacturing process especially when the product is a complex device like a smartphone. However, …
Trumps administration is in talks with Intel & TSMC to build factories in the U.S.
According to media reports, the Trump administration is in talks with chipmakers, including Intel and TSMC, to build factories in the US. This move will …
TSMC declines to comment on Huawei’s shift to SIMC
In the first quarter of 2020, Huawei’s HiSilicon semiconductor revenue jumped 54% to enter the global top 10 semiconductor companies. This is a new record …
Huawei’s HiSilicon division is now the 10th company at global semiconductor ranking
The US ban forced Huawei to rethink its strategies in the smartphone market. The company had to build its software ecosystem in the form of …
TSMC wins major orders for NVIDIA 7nm and 5nm chips
In recent times, there have been speculations that Samsung’s 5nm EUV process is attracting Nvidia. Until today, many of us believed that Samsung will be …
Huawei partners with STMicroelectronics to bring chips for automative and mobile devices
We’re about to cross one year since the US government decided to add Huawei to the “entity list” banishing from dealing with US companies. The …
Huawei Contributed $5.1 Billion In Revenue To TSMC In 2019
It turns out that Huawei contributed 36.1 billion yuan ($5.1 billion) in revenue to TSMC in 2019, an increase of more than 80% year-on-year. In the …
NVIDIA and AMD bought Up All Excess Capacity at TSMC
The COVID-19 pandemic is not only affecting our lives but also represents a massive threat for several businesses in the Globe. While the smartphone market …
TSMC’s annual report mentions 2nm technology for the first time
TSMC’s 5nm chips like the Bionic A14 and Kirin 1020 are already on their way. The company is already getting set for the trial production …
TSMC 3nm details announced: 250 million transistors / mm2
Recently, TSMC officially disclosed the details of its latest 3nm process. Its transistor density creates a new record, 250 million / mm². For reference, the Kirin …
TSMC no longer expects an expressive growth in 2020 due to COVID-19
Earlier this year, TSMC shared a forecast that was easily very optimistic. After all, the company was expecting huge demand and growth in the smartphone …
Huawei is gradually shifting chip production from TSMC to SMIC
Chinese manufacturing giant, Huawei, and the U.S. are still at loggerheads over multiple issues. The U.S. has since banned Huawei from dealing with American companies. …
TSMC’s 5nm process to contributes 10% of its revenue
This afternoon, TSMC announced its Q1 2020 quarter earnings. The company recorded a revenue of about $103.1 billion, a 45.2% annual increase. TSMC’s advanced process …
TSMC gets more orders for 5nm chips from Apple
Some weeks ago, there were speculations that TSMC will cut down its deliveries to Huawei. The exact reason for this is not known but there …
TSMC postpones trial production of the 3nm process
According to reports out of Taiwan, due to the COVID-19 pandemic ravaging the world, TSMC has postponed its 3nm (nanometer) trial production. The company had …
TSMC Postpones 3nm Process Plans By 4 Months, At Least
The total investment of TSMC’s 3nm process is as high as 1.5 trillion Taiwan dollars, about 50 billion U.S. dollars. At least, at the moment, …