GLOBALFOUNDRIES today announced plans to expand its global manufacturing footprint in response to growing customer demand for its comprehensive and differentiated technology portfolio. The company is expanding its footprint in China with a fab in Chengdu, and adding capacity for mainstream technologies in Singapore, and investing in its existing fabs in the United States and Germany...

HSINCHU, Taiwan – Taiwanese NVM IP provider eMemory announces the availability of NeoFuse technology, qualified in TSMC’s 16nm FinFET Compact (16FFC) process. Customers have already embedded the NeoFuse IP for product tape-out...

Samsung Electronics and Apple remained the top two semiconductor chip buyers in 2016, representing 18.2 percent of the total worldwide market, according to Gartner, Inc. Samsung and Apple together consumed $61.7 billion of semiconductors in 2016, an increase of $0...

Worldwide semiconductor revenue is forecast to total $364.1 billion in 2017, an increase of 7.2 percent from 2016, according to Gartner, Inc. This represents a complete turnaround for the semiconductor industry as the market experienced 1...

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Taiwan's Environmental Protection Agency(EPA) yesterday passed an environmental assessment of TSMC's 5-nanometer production base in Tainan, Taiwan. TSMC said, in the best circumstance, the 5nm manufacturing base will start construction this year, and scheduled to enter mass production in the 2020...

The pure-play foundry market is forecast to play an increasingly stronger role in the worldwide IC market during the next five years, according to IC Insights’ new 2017 McClean Report. And the “Big 4” pure-play foundries (i...

TAIPEI, Taiwan – Morris Chang, chairman of TSMC, said in the fourth-quarter investor conference today that he did not rule out the possibility of setting a manufacturing plant in the United States, but for now, Taiwan is still the best place for TSMC...