Samsung Electronics today announced that it has commenced mass production of System-on-Chip (SoC) products with 10-nanometer (nm) FinFET technology for which would make it first in the industry. Following the successful mass production of the industry’s first FinFET mobile application processor (AP) in January, 2015, Samsung extends its leadership in delivering leading-edge process technology to the mass market with the latest offering...

Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC), one of semiconductor foundries in Mainland China, yesterday held its groundbreaking ceremony of a new 12-inch wafer fab in Shanghai to meet SMIC Shanghai's increasing production and development needs...

Toshiba Corporation's Storage & Electronic Devices Solutions Company today announced the launch of “TBD62089APG”, a new-generation transistor array for applications such as LED lighting for amusement equipment and high voltage signal transmitters for industrial equipment...

VPG Foil Resistors, a Vishay Precision Group, Inc. product group, announced today that its Powertron brand has expanded its S-Line of precision Bulk Metal® Foil current sense resistors with the new SHLR series. For industrial and energy applications, the SHLR 4-2321, SHLR 4-3825, and SHLR 4-3825H are the industry's first such devices to combine low resistance down to 0...

TAIPEI, Taiwan – After reaching a historical high of Q3 revenue, TSMC today projected its Q4 revenue of 2016 will be about NT$255 billion to NT$258 billion, slightly decline 0.9% to 2%. In addition, TSMC indicated that it was optimistic about its developing progress of 7nm technology and the company will take the lead in the advanced process competition...

Broadcom Limited announced immediate availability of its new family of switches optimized for cloud-scale data centers deploying high density 100G switching solutions. Building on the widely deployed StrataXGS Tomahawk and Trident switch products...

TAIPEI, Taiwan - According to news from Taiwan's Economic Daily News, progress on Samsung's 7nm production is behind schedule and mass production will be impossible for them next year. However, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) will carry out risk trials for 7nm products in Q1 of next year and expect to do commercial production during Q4 of next year so that it will contribute to their revenue in 2018...