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TSMC Is A Bellwether For IT, But It Is Not The Weather Of All IT
There is no question that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co is one of the best bellwethers of the IT industry. …
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The Chip Has Hit The Fan
If you are a designer of chips based on the most advanced processes available from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, and your roadmap is based on the company’s continuing progress and prowess in pushing Moore’s Law to the limit, then not only is the future in your roadmaps being pushed out, but you are going to have to pay more for whatever chips you are making now and, we suspect, the chips you are depending on for your business in the future. …
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Intel Decides To Engineer Its Fab-Filled Future After All
Newly anointed Intel chief executive officer Pat Gelsinger held the coming out party for his strategy to get the world’s largest chip manufacturer and designer back on track, called “Intel Unleashed: Engineering The Future,” on Tuesday after the market closed. …
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Intel’s Datacenter Decline Not As Bad As Expected
Incoming chief executive officer and long-time Intel employee Pat Gelsinger is talking the helm of a chip company that has plenty of issues to sort out, but there is some good news as Intel reports its financial results for the fourth quarter of 2020 and Gelsinger gets ready to take over. …
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Intel Tests Its Datacenter Teflon With 7 Nanometer Delay
There is such a thing as a string of bad luck, but we have always believed that luck is the residue of design, either good or bad. …
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The Datacenter Impact Of The GlobalFoundries 7 Nanometer Spike
Making money from sand is not as easy as making money from oil, and the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, which has been assembling the GlobalFoundries chip making giant for the past decade is finding that out the hard way and as a consequence, the company is backing off on its development of 7 nanometer manufacturing techniques, which included a double whammy of traditional immersion lithography techniques as well as a move towards bleeding-edge extreme ultraviolet (EUV) technology. …